| Such behaviour is the besetting sin of psychology and renders science in the field concerned impossible. |
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| They sometimes give way to inconsistencies and besetting sins, and lose their sense of pardon. |
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| To subject a decision of the court or tribunal below to too narrow a textual analysis is a besetting sin for the appellate court. |
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| His theory is that the Party's besetting sin over the past few decades has been snobbery. |
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| The besetting sins of oppressed people may include self-denial, passivity and complicity in their own oppression. |
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| Yet it's the besetting sin of the professional class to render itself invisible in its own calculations. |
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| Nevertheless it is necessary to watch for his besetting sins, and correct them whenever they occur. |
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| He has a piece in today's Washington Post in which he argues that the besetting sin of today's journalists is arrogance. |
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| Everyone hopes that the next president will be able to gradually resolve the problems besetting our country. |
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| Did they solve any social problem besetting equality and brotherhood of human beings? |
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| Your editorials are thought-provoking in addressing the myriad problems besetting our profession today. |
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| The real problem besetting racing will not rear its head in the next few weeks, or even months. |
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| Condoned truancy and absence is one of the besetting sins of the education service. |
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| Today they are more conscious of failures, habits and besetting sins which cause enormous guilt. |
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| In short, the agenda is all encompassing and all stakeholders should support the process to move out of the current problems besetting the country. |
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| Wrath is, as regular readers know, one of my besetting sins. |
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| These two last examples epitomize the murkiness besetting a serious examination of the occupation of early modem peoples and the identities they derived from their work. |
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| The Witness Protection Programme was created in 1992 in response to the need to address the terrorism besetting the country at that time. |
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| Psycho-sociological approaches are indispensable for refining knowledge of the problems besetting foster children. |
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| Even in the latter case, Congo, the prognosis is guarded due to the cyclical crises besetting the country. |
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| If that was the case, it would explain the problems besetting human resources management at the United Nations. |
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| The besetting weakness of large-scale planning is that it tries to be all things to all people. |
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| Many of the serious problems besetting education are not to be found in school systems but in the discriminatory environment. |
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| For all his strained seriousness, corn and schmaltz are Mr Spielberg's besetting weakness. |
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| If so, she is alone: the rest of the country is transfixed by the various scandals besetting her and her family. |
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| A great evil besetting the European Union is that we all have different ideas on the subject. |
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| The besetting problem I have with it to this day, is do people want to know this? |
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| As if the many other problems besetting agriculture at the present time were not enough, the weather is now heaping further woe on those who earn a living off the land. |
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| What they had not fully foreseen was the dottiness that was already besetting their own kind. |
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| Development, social well-being, the search for a satisfactory solution to the grave socio-economic problems besetting humanity, all need this truth. |
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| They have been beaten, raped and robbed or forced to pay a bribe to free themselves. This is an extreme example of two problems besetting efforts to help sex-workers. |
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| We may note at this point that despite the difficult circumstances besetting Yemen in the summer of 1994 as a result of a war of secession, the Government was able to respect human rights. |
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| Such a measure would nonetheless be insufficient to obviate the serious difficulties besetting the fisheries sector, which has moreover already been facing a crisis. |
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| Is the Commission monitoring developments as regards hunger in Angola, which, according to the most recent figures, is now besetting four million people? |
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| Shifting the burden of calamities or other problems besetting its people onto others was not only immoral, unfair and irresponsible, but also imprudent, because it could establish a culture of dependency. |
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| The fact that the problems besetting the UM Precious Metals business unit in the late 90s are well and truly over is reflected in a EUR 30.9 million improvement in operating income. |
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| As we have previously indicated, security should be approached from a multidimensional perspective, as the sources of insecurity besetting our countries are both numerous and varied. |
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| The Government is cooperating with international organizations in an effort to overcome the difficulties besetting children's health-care delivery and provide the medical supplies needed in that connection. |
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| Mr Michel explained that it was in the interest of both parties that this agreement should provide a platform for a comprehensive settlement in the other crises besetting Sudan, and in particular Darfur. |
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| One is left with the impression that all the problems besetting that country are caused by the outside world and that therefore, all the solutions should come from the outside world. |
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