Example collocations logo

Weakness in sentence

988 examples of Weakness in a sentence

The most serious weakness in Ferguson’s presentation is his lack of sympathy for the civilizations dismissed as “the rest,” which also points to the most serious limitation of the revisionist case.
Defenders of the current policy argue that Israel cannot afford to negotiate from a position of weakness.
These two long-standing areas of persistent weakness have constituted a major drag on the type of cyclical dynamics that traditionally thrust the US out of its periodic economic slowdowns.
Economists such as Barry Eichengreen, Jeffrey Sachs, and Ben Bernanke have helped us to understand that these anomalies were the result of individual central banks’ effort to stay on the gold standard, causing them to keep interest rates relatively high despite economic weakness.
Debasement of the currency is another sign of weakness that often precedes decline and breakup.
Perhaps the Bush administration worries that if oil countries abandoned the dollar standard, today’s dollar weakness would turn into a rout.
But in our view, an additional, often overlooked weakness is an academic environment that limits contributions from Africa’s youngest scholars – students just finishing their PhDs – who may in fact hold the keys to putting the continent to work.
While growth slowed recently from very high rates – owing to a combination of exposure to developed-country weakness, internal loss of reform momentum, and declining investor confidence – that trend appears to be reversing after recent decisive corrective moves by the government.
Now, the electronic media’s weakness for graphic violence has become the Islamic State’s strength.
Viewed in this light, the recent drop in oil prices is unsurprising, as it follows signs of weakness in every major emerging market (with the possible exception of India).
Yet diversity is all too often considered a source of weakness in the Middle East.
They suffered from chronic vomiting, seizures, and muscle weakness, sending them and their parents on an odyssey of medical examinations and tests.
But power, defined as the ability to influence others, comes in many guises, and soft power is not weakness.
The fact that Facchinetti himself is the lynchpin of the canton’s open-minded views may be seen as a weakness, but it is also its strength.
Speaker after speaker insisted that the movement’s weakness was brought about by the fact that its leaders succumbed to the temptations that come with government positions.
But perhaps Russia’s indifference to human rights is a source of strength, not weakness.
A weak Europe and skittishness about emerging markets has been one of America's great strengths, but how long can the US rely on the weakness of others?
Though Obama may be right, the speech did little to mollify critics who have accused him of passivity and weakness, particularly regarding Syria and Ukraine.
While a new round of weakness in global commodity prices earlier this year contributed to these figures, it does not explain the weakness in longer-term inflation expectations, which have improved little since March, when the ECB started its massive €60 billion ($66.3 billion) per month bond-buying program.
Italy’s Last Democratic DespotROME – Italy has always had a weakness for authoritarian figures.
Conservation is regarded as a sign of weakness in this era of rising economic wealth.
And they watch with glee at how Europe, Japan, and America, instead of acting together, display the weakness of disunity.
Ironically, the weakness of the Lebanese state may be contributing to the strength of its civil society.
In fact, a key part of the problem is that China’s response to cyclical weakness always entails more housing construction.
Our partners in the Commonwealth of Independent States have inevitably drawn conclusions from Russia’s demonstration of weakness and incompetence.
The major cause of what has happened is the systematic intellectual weakness of Russia's foreign policy.
The fundamental weakness of Russia’s emerging political system, with its excessive centralization, its reliance on individual personnel rather than institutions, and the declining quality of its management, is starting to show.
But the weakness of manufacturing is a drag on India’s overall economic performance and threatens the sustainability of its growth.
And is fear in the rest of the world a response to the West’s strength, or to its new weakness?
But we face these environmental challenges at a time of persistent economic weakness.
BackNext