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Example sentences for: failings

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To condemn Jefferson for his failings, you must also condemn Lincoln, but to condemn both is to throw out the progressive historic tradition by which the present civil rights movement gains its legitimacy.
In London, a Financial Times editorial said the United States has made itself an easy target for China's ambitious spies because of security failings that "are just the latest symptoms of a deep muddle over the direction of US policy towards China."
The late 1990s were a period of disillusionment with the long-lived Suharto regime’s many failings and widespread corruption.
What it does view as a fundamental violation of Christian charity is detractio : disclosing another human being's private failings and weaknesses in order to ruin his good name or otherwise bring him into discredit.
And while he does not share Soros' ambition to be seen as a sort of philosopher-speculator, his prominence does constitute a sort of bully pulpit--with the operative word perhaps being "bully"--from which he has not hesitated to lecture nations on their failings.