Failings Sentence Examples

But with all his failings in judgment Chalmers was a valuable writer.

Contemptuous of the opinion of his fellows, he hid his virtues, paraded his faults, affected some failings from which he was really exempt, and, since his munificent charity could not be concealed from the recipients, laboured to spoil it by gratuitous surliness.

But no, Fred O'Connor was a lot of things, but loose-tongued wasn't one of his failings.

For example, the priests are not to be chosen by the people; penitents are not to be present at ordinations (lest they should hear the failings of candidates discussed); bishops are to be appointed by the metropolitan and his suffragan; sub-deacons may not distribute the elements of the Eucharist; clerics are forbidden to leave a diocese without the bishop's permission.

The moral character of churchmen in Brazil has been severely criticized by many observers, and the ease with which disestablishment was effected is probably largely due to their failings.

No one can doubt his real belief in religion in spite of many moral failings or weaknesses.

Diihring's clear, incisive writing is disfigured by arrogance and ill-temper, failings which may be extenuated on the ground of his physical affliction.

Man is a hopeless enigma to himself, until he sees himself in the light of being a human with human failings.

It is not unfair to connect the apparent failings of Schelling's philosophizing with the very nature of the thinker and with the historical accidents of his career.

Catholic Ireland calls him her "Liberator" -still; and history will say of him that, with some failings, he had many and great gifts, that he was an orator of a high order, and that, agitator as he was, he possessed the wisdom, the caution and the tact of a real statesman.

She deserves her appellation of "Good Queen Anne," and notwithstanding her failings must be included among the chief authors and upholders of the great Revolution settlement.

Ismail, Tahmasp and Abbas, whatever their faults and failings, were Persian and peculiar to Persians.

He was well fitted to secure the sympathy and admiration of his countrymen, for his virtues and his failings were alike English.

As individuals they had their failings, but one and all were worthy members of a high-souled race.

City's play often seemed far more deliberate, they always wanted an extra touch and moves broke down often through their own failings.

Secondary Water Scarcity Failings of management may lead to scarcity with unequal distribution.

The problems and failings of PPPs are consistently downplayed.

We must expose the failings of Tony Blair's Government.

Do not make excuses for yourself or your perceived failings.

Just six. we can criticize the failings of institutions; they are easy targets.

Is it because they don't want to admit failings in previous products?

The loans are provided to remedy failings under the Decent Homes Standard.

The Tories, moreover, are venturing deep into traditional Labor territory with their attacks on alleged failings in various public services.

This honest mistake, however, resulted from the inherent failings of Wales ' own creation.

A picture is emerging of serious failings in a force he is supposed to run.

And we must not preach - we all have our own deep moral failings.

Its administrative failings are the subject of further reform.

The DTI have not laid any charges against Personnel Selection for their health and safety failings before putting Simon to work.

The report repeatedly praises individual heroism by emergency workers, but it finds a number of organizational failings.

Rimmer's failings are down to his utter inability to leap the hurdle of his own self-loathing.

As a result of their failings, deliberately inflammatory comments will only cloud a problem which is on its way to being resolved.

They rarely remind us of all the delays, design problems and failings of conventionally procured projects.

I'm often unsure what tests ex players have to take to become a pundit, given their obvious failings.

He returned to Holland in 1665 and was made a scapegoat by the West India Company for all its failings in New Amsterdam; he went back to New York again after the treaty of Breda in 1667, having secured the right of free trade between Holland and New York.

But his failings of mind were exacerbated by his bodily infirmities; he grew more and more whimsical and capricious, morbidly suspicious and morbidly parsimonius; old friends were estranged or removed by death, and new friends did not come forward in their place.

I 'm often unsure what tests ex players have to take to become a pundit, given their obvious failings.

Tony Augarde gets to grips with some genuinely two-faced characters from the dictionary Last month this column discussed some of the failings of dictionaries.

You must accept them for exactly what they are, and not attribute human failings to them such as being stubborn, vengeful or having selective hearing.

Parents are troubled by children who are out of control and have problem behaviors such as running away, truancy, school failings or suspensions, and delinquency.

This trait makes them very understanding of the failings of others and non-judgmental of other people.

Despite Dan's failings as a father, both Lucas and Nathan continue to give him more chances to be in their lives.

One of the biggest failings of the Flash platform is the lack of support for the platform on any of Apple's i-devices.

Secondly, since different scribes are prone to different kinds of error, we must ever bear in mind the particular failings of the scribes responsible for the transmission of our text as these failings are revealed in the apparatus criticus.

On the other hand, Gustavus had his full share of the family failings of irritability and suspiciousness, the latter quality becoming almost morbid under the pressure of adverse circumstances.