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Example sentences for: shortcomings

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Some of these shortcomings can be laid at the door of the author, some at the door of the book designer, most in the lap of the editor (if there was one).
Besides, taking potshots at Washington is often good local politics: Blaming a faraway caricature of the United States can deflect attention from shortcomings, or worse, closer to home.
The other parameter we used was the integrated response which also suffers some shortcomings.
Siegel clearly wrote this book out of a frustration, which I share, with a general failure to face up to the shortcomings of the policies of the 1960s.
The NSA director at the time, Lieutenant General Kenneth Minihan, believed the memo applied only to the CIA and not the NSA, because no one had informed him of any NSA shortcomings.