1.   After that game, Cremins stated that Marbury had played poorly and attributed his shortcomings to inexperience.

2.   Ellison attributed the shortcomings of the interactive television market to a failure by large telephone and cable companies to invest sufficiently.

3.   Foreign election observers were critical on Monday of the Supreme Electoral Council for those failings, but attributed the shortcomings to ineptitude rather than fraud.

4.   He also appeared to lose a step in center field, although that shortcoming could be attributed mainly to his aching foot.