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The foibles of politics and the march of time can turn friends into enemies just as easily as the wind changes.

It has its foibles and faults but essentially it is a creation into which you stepped and to which you gave the love of your heart.

Muslim comedians do not just ridicule their fellow citizens' foibles. Satire bubbles up in even the most repressive regimes.

Her foibles, like her insistence on eating sweets at bedtime, seemed to come from her Armenian father.

I can think of at least three human foibles chronicled by behavioural economists that regularly impinge on politics.

Do these staff foibles tell us about the kind of president Senators Clinton or Obama would be?

She seemed a counterpoint to Mr. Strauss-Kahn, whose male foibles were all too apparent.

What interests me is not just the endless weakness of human nature but how technology now allows these foibles to be indulged at work.

Those who prefer to be discreet usually benefit from Catholic society's widespread "don't ask, don't tell" tolerance of private foibles.

Talking too much is one of his foibles.

The foibles of human nature that result in the mass pursuit of instant wealth and effortless gain seem certain to be with us forever.

Unless you married a robot, your partner comes pre-loaded with a whole range of human failures and foibles.

it is, after all, as much about the personalities and foibles of those whom diplomats encounter as about grand strategy.

In their designs, business models and philosophies, they offer a striking snapshot of European aspirations, anxieties and foibles.

Talking too much is one of Jack's foibles that I find a little annoying.

But I will applaud the attempt to overcome human foibles.

They also allow health services to tailor treatments depending on patients' personal preferences and behavioural foibles.

The authors warn that the crash will happen again unless governments find ways of compensating for these foibles through policy.

Her room was a study in the foibles of an eager and ambitious mind.

Will to me, betraying the age means exposing its conceits, its foibles, its phony moral certitudes.

He was prone to scan with a narrow eye the pleasures and foibles of youthful desire.

His technique is to describe history through its players, with all their foibles.

Can this failure be put down to his peculiar personality and foibles?

He saw our best and our worst, our extravagant promise and our stunning failures, our comic foibles and our tragic flaws.

Voters who admire Mrs Bachmann's fierce conservatism will doubtless look past these slips and foibles.

And more detailed design specifications and guidelines could help prevent programmer-specific foibles.

The Republican majority in Congress fell victim to the normal foibles of greed and lust.

His egocentric foibles didn't bother me much, though we were as different as daylight and dark.

His wife's revelatory book was published last year, but only now have her foibles become staples of daytime television.

Their foibles were treated with indulgence.

The legends and foibles of the Winter Olympics.

It improves tolerance of human foibles and can brighten up some grey days.

But , as well as observing indicators such as volatility of returns , investors should bear in mind human foibles .

We enjoy talking with other moms about them and their foibles.

My host pardoned many of his foibles.

No better vantage point to witness his whims, tantrums and other foibles.

Raking in revenues of 4. 9 billion yuan ($766. 5 million), as Ikea did in China in 2010, makes it easy to overlook customers' foibles.

Apple's new phone does so many things so well, and so pleasurably , that you tend to forgive its foibles.

There are many humorous allusions to human foibles in the drama.

We all have our little foibles.

These foibles often persist beyond reason because they are so deep-rooted, having been learned in the families of people's childhoods.

who could applaud or condemn each other, amuse or sadden themselves by the contemplation of each other's foibles or vices;

Observant of the foibles of the crowd,