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Although other people have failings, it's important when you think you've seen a shortcoming to ask "do I ever do that? "

Immigration and the property bubble made up for these failings for a while, but no longer.

That margin and other market failings add up to 20% to the cost of every sack.

So we are still far from understanding how much sophisticated people will or should plan to deal with their own likely failings.

A little old man now, he had been strong in his far off youth and was impatient with his physical failings.

THE JUDGE SAY of him what you please, but I know my child's failings.

At times, that anger is exploited by politicians, to gin up votes along racial lines, or to make up for a politicians own failings.

Despite my good qualities mentioned, I still have quite a few failings, such as my laziness, failure to be punctual, and a bit of shyness.

Regulators did not cause the crisis, but things might have been done that were not done and there were specific procedural failings.

She said the violations exposed the failings of the International Council of Toy Industries, which is supposed to police the industry.

Say of him what you please, but I know my child's failings.

Publicly humbled by a frank report on its failings, the bank has made a raft of changes.

Among other failings, said the coroner, it gave troops "wholly inadequate" advice on coping with the searing heat.

The political and economic cost of these failings has not been lost on China's leaders.

None of this is to say that China's citizens are unaware of their country's failings and contradictions.

In interviews and speeches she was a sharp if largely unheeded critic of the West's economic, political and spiritual failings.

Therefore, the assessment of a counterpart's failings should be a large part of the negotiation planning process.

But Mr Gayoom's high- handedness seems as much to blame for the failings of the counter-terrorism effort.

Hence it is that men are quick to see the faults of others, and yet are often blind to their own failings.

How kids spend their money is a hot topic, especially since the recession has cast adults' failings on this front into sharp relief.

Using self-interest as an unquestioned premise has serious consequences for inferring causes of failings and for prescribing remedies.

Such failings are more glaring in a country with a fast-growing population that needs annual growth of 5% just to keep unemployment steady.

It includes kissing, foreplay, nudity and sex scenes, and a discussion of the merits of sex, sexual failings and homosexuality.

Look for the one most emotionally gripped by his own failings.

For the EU's critics, its own summit in September was a good example of its failings.

Whatever his personal failings, Mr Strauss-Kahn was an outstanding head of the IMF.

Make allowances for what may be seen as the failings of others, and remember that you do not have knowledge of their life plan.

Your employee thinks: "This review is an opportunity to blame your failings as a manager on me. "

But under construction usually will appear some quantity common failings in the concrete, the influence safety of the building structure.

Don't see it as an opportunity to respond with a list of complaints and the companies' failings.

In the past few days I have begun to atone for my private failings with my wife, Silda, my children, and my entire family.

Despite all of its failings, it does still show up as a seasonal offering in parts of Japan.

No. But when we did not and realised we did not, we admitted our failings and tried to improve.

An inability to stay quiet is one of the most conspicuous failings of mankind.

This is not to be confused with humility, which involves recognising one's failings but still maintaining a healthy dose of self-confidence.

It said failings in water resource and management and chronic underinvestment were to blame.

At times the clinical manner in which she dissects her family's failings and pathologies seems a bit harsh.

Mr. Obama told the convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, that he was mindful of his "failings. "

Partly thanks to such failings, the economy has tanked, with GDP shrinking in 2009 by more than in any other big European country.

But her patience with our failings and fickleness and her willingness to give us a second chance are a daily lesson in gratitude.

A quarter of a century after a famine in Ethiopia which dramatised failings in the food system, famine is again stalking the Horn of Africa.

On the bright side, Chinese golf fans are likely to be quite forgiving of Tiger's personal failings.

If the country wants a more reliable energy strategy, it will have to start by acknowledging its collective failings.

The failings of the financial system have been the strongest argument against globalisation and the capitalist system.

Some American economists who used to carp at Japan's failings are more sympathetic now.

After his failings on MPs' expenses (see article), it was painfully clear that he had to go.

All political news is now interpreted through the refractive lens of Mr Brown's failings.

These failings will be analysed in more detail in the next section of this report.

A few weeks ago Mr Toledo was comfortably ahead in the polls. But he has come under fire for his personal failings.

Procrastination is one of my failings .

one study estimates needless hospitalisations as a result of such failings cost $100 billion a year in America alone.

No internal criticism, because who else in the world thinks so much about my failings and embarrassments other than myself?

Market fundamentalism is out of favour, the failings of socialism are still not forgotten.

What matters more is the regime itself. Its power is fast eroding. It could collapse under the weight of its own failings.

manifold reasons; our manifold failings; manifold intelligence; the multiplex opportunities in high technology.

One panel will discuss the failings of the discipline in light of the financial crisis.

Such failings create an opportunity for chains to build nationwide brands in a continent-sized country with huge regional differences.

you wish to find out a man's weak points? Note the failings he has the quickest eye for in others.

Few thought that he was the product of the system's failings.

Ultimately the country's economic failings express the preferences of a plurality of Italians.

Fortunately for Western producers, the failings of Chinese lorries serve as a useful barrier to entry in other markets.

Japanese leaders in both the public and private spheres regularly take the fall for failings in the institutions they oversee.

Cracks came as information spread, especially about the system's bogus history and economic failings.

The researchers say these three studies show that men are more tolerant of their friends' failings than women.

Enron was turned into books, films, a play and a byword for fiduciary failings and fraud.

Some of these failings are inescapable.

But unfortunately he had his failings too: laziness and a love of tippling.

And though Mr Obama is willing to admit his country's failings, he is quite ruthless about blowing its enemies to scraps.

Happily, though, experiments have revealed some straightforward remedies for these failings.

Given George Bush's failings, the Republicans face an uphill challenge, but they have given themselves a chance.

His democratic failings were offset in the eyes of some Western leaders by a contrast with the infuriatingly ineffective Mr Yushchenko.

But the scale of the failings in recent months cannot be disguised.

Upset with the failings of the U. S. government these days?

I'm not referring to his alleged ethical failings, as highlighted in The Social Network.

China's press loves to point out the failings and hypocrisies of the "advanced democracies" .

Luck is the name losers give to their own failings . It's about wanting to win, willing yourself to win.

If the answer is yes, then his administration's failings were due less to a flawed diagnosis and more to a matter of execution.

To admit shortcomings and inadequacies is the starting point for solving problems and overcoming weaknesses or failings.

But today's crisis tells us of the failings of a euphoric capitalism.

This handout describes some ways in which arguments often fail to do the things listed above; these failings are called fallacies.

But Dr Wei Tongjun , who works out of a renovated 12- bed hospital in Jingyuan 's Gaowan village, says failings remain .

Whatever the Fed's failings, it is the only economic player left in Washington.

All support for the system and allowance for its failings are lost.

No nuclear nation has done this as well as one might wish, and Japan's failings may well become more evident.

Don't blow your top when one or two people think it's smart to point out your faults and failings in a negative way.

Arachne filled her web with subjects designedly chosen to exhibit the failings and errors of the gods.

It is at home, though, that his failings are most pronounced.

Nor are charter schools a panacea for the failings of some of the most deprived inner city areas.

Since Christianity is currently the world's most popular religion, I'll slant this article towards Christianity's ubiquitous failings.

For all its failings, the US remains a more attractive beacon for billions of people worldwide looking for a better life.

For all its failings, the US remains a more attractive beacon for billions of people worldwide looking for a better life.

Although academia differs from the settings explored by group think theorists, it exhibits many of the same tendencies and failings .

Then the usability gurus step in, blaming Design for the failings of stylistic fetishism.

The Democrats' top brass blame the party's failings on Republican obduracy and trickery.

Why can't any country be criticised for its failings as well as praised for its achievements?

Or else it might expose the country's economic failings, bringing in an unbiddable tidal wave of change from outside.

They are what they are, and usually have no problem admitting their failings.

Its drive to open new kinds of schools is not yet matched by rigorous inspections to help weaker schools target their failings.

Set in a period ending with the First World War, it shows Kate Roberts ' skill at revealing the failings and virtues of people.

Do you cry out in your sleep, all my failings exposed? Get a taste in my mouth as desperation takes hold.

I have no grievances against humanity. I think many human failings can be remedied so long as people strive with firm determination.

Two persons cannot be old friend if they cannot forgive each other e's little failings.

Hubris, he reckons, has led to some of the profession's most egregious ethical failings.

The Market Fundies will not acknowledge the failings in their system.

For all his failings, Ted Heath was not stupid.

But those failings say as much about distortions in China's markets and shortcomings in its laws as about the companies themselves.

You may not be able to correct other people's failings but you're certainly free to learn from them.

An interim cap on their numbers was imposed in July; a permanent one will be adopted next year. The cap has two main failings.

These books are marked by common failings that greatly frustrate their simple mission.

In the Democratic Senate race David Hoffman, Chicago's former inspector-general, described Mr Giannoulias's failings at length.

But he also spends a fair amount of ink on his fathers' failings .

Murakami uses novel-inside-a-novel to reveal the failings of mainstream Japanese society.

This movie, like Mr Moore's early masterpiece about the failings of General Motors, "Roger and Me" , is on to something important.

And the crisis has exposed corporate weaknesses and failings from the boardroom to the shop floor.

The theorization it offers of post-Marxism's current failings, for instance, is a tour de force.

But how well do the provisions of the bill respond to the regulatory failings in the US that the crisis revealed?

It also shows politicians' failings in dealing with the judicial system.

His candidacy has added a generational split to the coalition's other failings.

Japan shows the failings of institutionalised sexism.

In confessing to these failings, am I writing a professional suicide note?

Even Albania, denied candidate status because of its democratic failings, still sees the EU as its destination.

"The French see a magnified version of their own failings, " he says.

Like Aesop before him, Ambrose Bierce included animals in his fables in order to demonstrate human failings and quirks of character.

Long practice has made Arab rulers expert at explaining their failings away.

The falling rupee, then, partly reflects India's economic failings.

The council ruled the mistake was down to human error, not systemic failings.

Luck is the name losers give to their own failings.

Individual countries have specific failings of their own.

Plauger's advice tells you how to make money, without ascribing any grave moral failings to people who choose to do otherwise.

As a nation, the French are no more eager to learn about their wartime failings than are the Japanese.

Chinese regulators are well aware of the failings of local content providers.

Such failings give Clic an opportunity to develop new approaches in an economy that is growing in global importance.

Recently he has taken to heaping blame on the European Central Bank for France's self-inflicted failings .

Despite his recent failings he always will be a screen legend.

Many banks' failings exposed the triumph of form over substance.

Who, among all my friends, forgives my failings.

Yet on closer inspection, these new hybrids suffer from many of the failings of the old.

Despite Mr Kan's obvious failings, nobody relishes a power vacuum.

While he repeatedly emphasized his failings, Mr.

Not so ancient, I think, that she is willing to admit the failings of her campaign.

Fourth, there are major failings in agricultural production methods.

The number also highlights multiple failings in China's embarrassingly ineffective anticorruption campaign.

To wit: China and others are implicated in the dollar system's failings.

He drew the curtain over his failings.

Find a healthier outlet for your own failings.

Human beings betray their worst failings when they marvel to find that a world ruler is neither foolishly indolent, presumptuous, nor cruel.

The French are not eager to learn about their wartime failings any more than are the Japanese.

The second priority is that we agree a timetable for measures that will clean up the failings in our banking system.

Please forgive us our failings and restore our spiritual strength so that we can honor you and do your will.

Their failings in the housing bubble were much greater.

In fact, introspection can actually compound the error, blinding us to those primal processes responsible for many of our everyday failings.

But there were intellectual failings too.

two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.

I am dealing with my behavior and personal failings behind closed doors with my family.

Two persons cann 't long be friends if they cann 't forgive each other's little failings .

ARMAND: You made me see their failings, Louis.

And even in failings, they affirm what is right through the asking of forgiveness.

But the authors are blunt about the failings of some notional democracies.

He fears that whites will become the scapegoats for the government's failings.

In my opinion, JSR 69 had a number of failings.

If we realise they are just average people with the ordinary failings it becomes easier to forgive.

Yet in most of these failings China is no different from numerous other developing countries.

His plan would fix NCLB's most obvious failings, such as neglecting to track the progress of individual pupils.

Oh, I don't know that she recognized any failings.

Given the government's failings, it is hardly surprising if Pakistanis take a dim view of democracy.

Anger is not only inevitable, it is necessary. Its absence means indifference, the most disastrous of all human failings.

We all have our little failings.

Now I want to talk a little bit about failings, because nobody's journey is seamless or smooth.

These are really the failings of many democracy movements.

The dominant view is that human nature is innately good, but corrupted due to our failings.

There are two failings of risk management.

are common failings of the people in opposition to the reform.

There are other failings too.

I asked my insurance broker what the three biggest small-business insurance failings were.

Two persons can't long be friends if they can't forgive each other's failings.

The idea of the story is this: each of us has our own individual failings.

Hong Kong should cherish its status as a regional role model, reinforcing what it does well and fixing its failings.

He was a politician for a bygone age in which political leaders were allowed their failings;

It is what it is, and so are you, with all your contradictions and faults and failings.

The death of a taxi driver highlights failings throughout the police

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"He almost gives his failings as a warrant for his greatness" (Garry Wills)

Common failings of plumbery system in residential project and its prevention

You cry out in your sleep - all my failings expose

Prevention and settlement on the common quality failings of cast-in-situs reinforced concrete frame

Common failings of quality of anti-water project in basement and preventing measures

Ireland, however, is not in difficulty because of fiscal failings, but because of financial excesses;

On the Common Failings of the Asphalt Pavement and the Treatment Measures

The giant social network is castigated for serious privacy failings

Quality common failings and causes analysis of curtain wall project

Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings. Jean de La Bruyere, French moralist

Prevention of common failings of beam column node area in frame structure

Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings. [Bruyere]

Common failings as found in our Chinese-English dictionaries

New NAB chief admits bank has had failings