No doubt there have at times been shortcomings and laxity of methods in the administration of the Stock Exchange just as there have been in every other institution administered by human hands and brains.
From which observation it is plain that aesthetic shortcomings do not necessarily prevent a man from fancying himself irresistible.
He, however, sought to make up for verbal shortcomings by fixing Peckover with a stare of the most appalling ferocity.
When you speak like that you cause all my sins and shortcomings to rise up before me, and I feel as if I were not worthy of your love and tenderness.
His cleverness increased as he grew up, and later he seems to have become, in the mind of Captain Borrow at least, a standard by which to measure the shortcomings of his younger son George, whom he never was able to understand.
To this tale of its shortcomings must be added also the management of the Freedmen's Bank, which "was morally and practically part of the Freedmen's Bureau, although it had no legal connection with it.
The shortcomings of the SAS approach mirror in part shortcomings of other approaches.
However, the reasons for a string of spectacular failures lie more with planners' faulty attempts to understand and incorporate the technology than by egregiousshortcomings of the technology itself.
The shortcomings of Blitzkrieg ironically rest in its strengths.
The shortcomings with Sun Tzu are similar to those of the Massive Destruction and the Blitzkreig examples.
These shortcomings were however amply compensated for by the magnificence of the Chinamen.
Whatever might be the shortcomings of the Radical group, the daring of their trust in the colonists stands out in high relief against a background of conservative restriction and distrust.
As has already been seen, he was conscious of the political shortcomings of the French.
Perhaps there are many more of them than the shortcomings of our own characters will allow us to imagine.
We usually judge others by our own standard; and although we indulgently forgive our own shortcomings in them, we condemn them harshly for the lack of our special virtues.
This under-valuation arises rather from a lack of originality and distinctness of savour than from any shortcomings in treatment.
Scotland in it, the conquest of the kingdom by Cromwell, and the dreary epoch which followed the Restoration; and, as may be supposed, they exhibit the merits and the shortcomings of the earlier volumes.
Grossly ignorant of their own shortcomings the French were, last July, quite incapable of forming a fair estimate of any other nation.
He was scarcely to blame, therefore, for his shortcomings in that position.
He was not thinking about hisshortcomings as a Natural Historian.
In their excellencies as well as in their shortcomings they betray all the characteristics of his work in Bible exposition.
Their clear-cut, mental features with their characteristic excellencies and shortcomings distinguished one from the other.
Faults and shortcomings vanish into forgetfulness by the side of the multiplicity of his results and the grandeur of his achievement.
He has as a rule, a nicer sense of honor in the matter of comment upon his wife's shortcomings and foibles than she exhibits with regard to his.
In 1857 Herzen settled in London, where he published for some years a remarkable paper, called Kolokol (The Bell), in which he exposed the iniquities and shortcomings of Czarism and inspired the youth of Russia with his revolutionary ideals.
In addition to pursuing its legislative program, the Duma members voiced the country's protest against the shortcomings of the government, subjecting the various Ministers to searching interpellation, day after day.
Such were the causes which had established a favorable scope for Bolshevik propaganda; to introduce their domination they knew how to make use of the shortcomings of the people and the defects of Russian life.
But whatever the shortcomings of its first official statements, the actual program of the Provisional Government during the first weeks was far more satisfactory and afforded room for great hope.
Performing the functions of a constitutional opposition, it afforded the only chance of that tutelary exposure whereby blunders and shortcomings might be arrested in time.
Feeling more keenly than any man the intensity of this last death-struggle, and the serious, but inevitable, shortcomings of the armament in its present condition, he still thought that he had not said enough for the occasion.
Some shortcomings of the labor unions Are the shortcomings of the labor unions accidental or inherent?
The best remedy for such shortcomings is to be insatiably curious on all subjects.
Forgive and overlook the shortcomings which have appeared in that one, for the sake of love and affection.
Night and day endeavor to attain perfect harmony; be thoughtful concerning your own spiritual developments and close your eyes to the shortcomings of one another.
Our home was in a small building next to the shop, and had all the shortcomings of a cabin and none of its charm.
To me, in those days, the shortcomings of the McClintocks did not appear particularly heinous.
Explanations regarding the shortcomings of the Japanese in the matter of commercial morality will be found in Professor Nitobe's Bushido, pp.
It was a strange novelty to have meals provided without care of her own, no shortcomings of servants to make up, no claimant for her attention save a solitary patient, and that one with Lance's temper.
The only question of importance is whether they can become a moral, self-supporting, and useful part of our population, and of this I cannot feel the slightest doubt.
The loveliness, brilliancy, and piquancy of the details bribe us to overlook, and by dazzling us even prevent us from seeing, the formal shortcomings of the whole.
The opera at the Karnthnerthor Theatre with all its shortcomings was nevertheless the most important and most satisfactory musical institution of the city.
But be their shortcomings ever so great and many, who would dispense with these works?
Whatever the shortcomings of this composition are, the quiet simplicity and sweet melancholy which pervade it must touch the hearer.
Even the most successful have, in view of the ideally conceived, to deplore the quantitative and qualitative shortcomings of the actually accomplished.
The colonel's whole life stood before him, with all its shortcomings and its sins.
At such a mention of himself Frans would have been much astonished, as this faithful friend of the family had not failed to set his shortcomingsfully before him.
They were characterized by the same mutual complaints of overreachings and of shortcomings by which all the previous discussions had been distinguished.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shortcomings" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
