Sentences with phrase «one's personal failings»

Wouldn't it be better to concentrate on your on life and personal failings rather than spending time judging others?

Despite a number of gross personal failings, he did win the belt.

If things are not going well in our intimate relationships, it can feel like a very personal failing.

Particularly in a field such as the legal profession, where human vulnerabilities are viewed as personal failings and reputational concerns about stigma cloud even the best lawyer's judgment, I think such a medical model needs to be first embraced in law school.

Despite efforts to secularize him, and certain personal failings in his own life, King was a deeply Christian figure.

Lest again, in the next season of elections, his opponents try to beam more on his perceived personal failings, in the cynical hope that would eclipse his stellar work as governor.

Our resistance to such claims is further increased by the fact that those who are most likely to make them are equipped with nice, neat lists of what God disapproves of — lists that generally reflect the bias of a certain class and culture and that show a special interest in sexual mores, lists that all too often can not distinguish between minor personal failings and major injustices.

Grayling's paranoid delusions are not just personal failings.

When you feel anxious or depressed, it's easy to mistakenly blame yourself for whatever is troubling you and to see your natural and normal shortcomings as terrible personal failings that you should have somehow prevented.

PewDiePie isn't alone — with the stakes so high, deeply personal failings have never been so forgivable.

But the crucial point to recognise is that Iniva's current condition is ultimately the product of historical forces that transcend personal failings.

Some worry the media furore over Miliband's perceived personal failings have made it impossible for him to get his message out on other matters.

So the failures of Microsoft to move beyond the rapidly evaporating Windows business model are attributed to the personal failings of its CEO.

The President's personal failings are now not just center stage but whole stage.

They have watched as public officials, caught in their illegal indiscretions, use the charge of racism as a cover for their personal failings of character.

She doesn't make much of his personal failings or, as Mr. Ceaser puts it, the way he's made his living over the last decade.

The modern preoccupation with psychological weaknesses and personal failings must not be allowed to insinuate itself into our perspective of the Incarnation.

«In the poisonous environment of Washington, D.C, any personal failing is seized upon, often twisted, for political gain.

It's all around you in peoples» personal failings and vices.

In the original tale, most of the trouble stems from Jack's personal failings.

As a fan base I never understand why we are harping on guys as if it is a personal failing that they couldn't do this stuff.

Carl Paladino argues in an LA Times profile that the personal failings of elected officials should not be considered when voters are trying to decide whether they're qualified to hold elected office, and cites former Gov. Eliot Spitzer as an example of someone forced to resign when he should not have.

Still, for all his personal failings, Jonathan became presidential flotsam and jetsam, to be thrown overboard for the power vessel to remain afloat, because of cumulative atrocities under previous PDP administrations from 1999.

Weiner said he was encouraged that people seem to be giving him a second chance and are listening to his ideas, but added, «If citizens want to talk to me about my personal failings, that's their right and I'm going to do anything I can to answer them.»

«On the one hand, this is obviously a personal failing,» says Iona College political scientist Jeanne Zaino, referring to the allegations against Schneiderman.

[Carl Paladino argues in an LA Times profile that the personal failings of elected officials should not be considered when voters are trying to decide whether they're qualified to hold elected office...]

At some point the secretary of state's refusal to listen to evidence and personal attacks on his critics must be considered more than personal failings.

«I'm going to go back to work and I'm going to convince them this was a personal failing.»

Somehow, New York Republicans seem to lose districts due to the personal failings of the incumbents such as:

Its twin came out Monday, a less triumphant spot that instead featured Spitzer's admission of the personal failing that lead to his resignation as New York governor in 2008.

«I feel as if, instead of people seeing the good that he has done, they let the bad overshadow everything that he's trying to contribute to New York,» he said, arguing that Mr. Spitzer's personal failings were separate from his accomplishments in office.

«I've owned up to my personal failings, but I have a record that I'm proud of... and that's not something the speaker can claim.»

Two minutes deep into the five - candidate showdown, Weiner was already acknowledging and apologizing for his sexting scandal, but he urged voters to move beyond his «personal failings» and focus on the more substantive issues in the race.

«My personal failings and imperfections have caused enormous pain to the people I love and I am truly sorry.»

«It's not my personal failing,» Rock said, that she and her partner struggle to make ends meet despite her student loans being in forbearance.

Some Tory MPs were less charitable: their leader was «weak» and it was his personal failings which were responsible for this debacle.

For the most part, fat is considered a personal failing — a punishment for lack of willpower, for eating too much, and for being too lazy to exercise and burn off those calories.

While akrasia is sometimes called «weakness of will,» recent research suggests that it's not a personal failing, but a result of a cognitive bias that strike us all — «time inconsistency,» our tendency to discount the future in favor of the present.

If it is rejected, I don't consider this a personal failing.»

In contrast, many conscientious, positive, striving people have excellence and success as their goals, but they do not worry that imperfect performance is a sign of personal failing.

Narrative exercises serve to strengthen what we already know about ourselves, thickening the preferred identity stories that either fail to get told or get drowned out by the dominant stories of negative labels and personal failings.

Vadym Graifer, simple, if people admit that the metabolism can vary its speed based on energy intake, then there won't be any logical reason to victim blame the obese anymore for their personal failings in neurotic calorie - counting.

In the field of mental health, as opposed to internal medicine, we call something a «disease» in part so that it won't be misconstrued as a personal failing or a weakness but this is a false binary.