In the ensuing fifteen years, Damascus and Beirut justified Syria's continued military presence in Lebanon by citing the continued weakness of a Lebanese armed forces faced with both internal and external security threats, and the agreement with the Lebanese Government to implement all of the constitutional reforms in the Taif Agreement.

" The People are strong but the Government is weak ," he declares ; and he attributes the cause of weakness to the transference of power from the nobility to the people, and to a succession of three weal princes.

This response forced reversals of proposed changes in several areas, contributing to perceived weakness in his Government.

The main cause for the continued weakness of the Transitional Government is the refusal by the former warring parties to give up power to a centralized and neutral national administration.

The whole affair also highlighted the weakness of the constitutional convention of individual ministerial accountability, leading to its codification as the Ministerial Code by the Blair Government.

Thus the cocktail party would appear to be the ideal system, but there is one weakness.

It is a weakness of Gabriel's analysis that he never seems to realize that his so-called fundamental law had already been cut loose from its foundations when it was adapted to democracy.

Moreover its posture of stubborn but simple resistance is doomed to failure because of the metaphysical weakness of the existent form of order, once the activation of change has reached visible proportions.

The strength of the History is also its weakness.

He could now but the weakness is very definite ; ;

Muscle weakness is now recognized as an uncommon though serious complication of steroid therapy, with most of the synthetic adrenal corticosteroids in clinical use.

The case described in this paper is that of an older man who developed disabling muscular weakness while receiving a variety of steroids for a refractory anemia.

The major weakness of vocational training programs in labor surplus areas is their focus on serving solely local job demands.

This weakness is not unique to labor surplus areas, for it is inherent in the system of local school districts in this country.

The most serious weakness of the ecumenical movement today is that it is generally regarded as the responsibility of a few national leaders in each denomination and a few interdenominational executives.

Their view is that last-minute changes the Mayor is proposing to make in the Democratic ticket only emphasize the weakness of his performance as Mayor.

After Cuba and Laos, it was argued, Mr. Khrushchev will interpret the President's consent to the meeting as further evidence of Western weakness -- perhaps even panic -- and is certain to try to exploit the advantage he now believes he holds.

Basic reference tools are the backbone of the collection, but there is also specialization in science and technology, an indicated weakness in local libraries.

Individuals with Expressive aphasia often have right-sided weakness or paralysis of the arm and leg, because the frontal lobe is also important for body movement.

These individuals usually have no body weakness, because their brain injury is not near the parts of the brain that control movement.

An important weakness of abatis, in contrast to barbed wire, is that it can be destroyed by fire.

A number of harmful and undesired ( adverse ) effects have been observed, including lowered life expectancy, extrapyramidal effects on motor control – including akathisia ( an inability to sit still ), trembling, and muscle weakness – weight gain, decrease in brain volume ( although this is being debated, since schizophrenia, which is often treated with antipsychotics, also causes a shrinkage of brain volume ), enlarged breasts ( gynecomastia ) in men and milk discharge in men and women ( galactorrhea due to hyperprolactinaemia ), lowered white blood cell count ( agranulocytosis ), involuntary repetitive body movements ( tardive dyskinesia ), diabetes, sexual dysfunction, a return of psychosis requiring increasing the dosage due to cells producing more neurochemicals to compensate for the drugs ( tardive psychosis ), and a potential for permanent chemical dependence leading to psychosis worse than before treatment began, if the drug dosage is ever lowered or stopped ( tardive dysphrenia ).

This attack's major weakness is that it requires the user of the devices under attack to re-enter the PIN during the attack when the device prompts them to.

This property of Triple DES is not a weakness provided 112 bits of security is sufficient for an application.

It is viewed either as a strength or weakness that this theory requires a second theory about how the Neoplatonism was transmitted to the troubadours ; perhaps it can be coupled with one of the other origins stories or perhaps it is just peripheral.

While these specific failings came back to haunt the Empire in subsequent decades, perhaps the greatest weakness of the Peace of Augsburg was its failure to take into account the growing diversity of religious expression emerging in the so-called evangelical and reformed traditions.

On January 21, 2007, a Japanese fisherman discovered a long female alive at the surface, perhaps there because of illness or weakness from the warm water.

Given the recent financial crisis and economic recession, this weakness in the curriculum is even less likely to be rectified now than perhaps it might have been a few years ago — despite the urgent need for a deeper understanding of capitalism.

The king, perhaps believing that Valence's refusal to accept his challenge was a sign of weakness, retired only a few miles to nearby Methven, where he made camp for the night.

He wrote that " perhaps the most damaging weakness in books of the generic Blank Slate kind is their intellectual dishonesty ( evident in the misrepresentation of the views of others ), combined with a faith in simple solutions to complex problems.

Because of this weakness, the sixth house has also been connected with servitude and slavery, and it is for this reason, perhaps, that it has become associated with the most routine and arduous of work, and the sense of the workplace as an obligation to which people must report every day to do the work of others.

His greatest weakness perhaps are his fragile wings which are vulnerable to enemy firepower.

Like most liches, Azalin is extremely protective of his true name, although whether this is out of any true weakness ( perhaps to spells such as Trap the Soul, which require the true name to be spoken ) is debatable.

This implementation is a linear transform, perhaps highlighting some security weakness of the original definition.

Against such a termination of human life on earth by human action, he then proposes as an alternative that we `` negotiate at once with the Russians and get the best terms which are available '', that we deliberately `` negotiate from comparative weakness ''.

To overcome these weakness a number of design objectives were created ; Harness the full potential of the StrongARM CPU, support multiple processors, add support for PCI expansion, offer the best possible graphics, run existing RISC OS applications and to provide enhanced RISC OS functionality.

* Attempts to understand or explain the actions of anti-Western terrorists as justifiable responses to actions of the United States or Israel are a sign of moral weakness at best, and sympathy for the terrorists at worst, and will hamper efforts to defeat them.

However, Peterson and Seligman ( 2004 ) argue that " an exclusive focus on what is wrong with people can lead us to overlook what is right and precludes the possibility that one of the best ways to undo someone's weakness is by encouraging his or her strengths.

:"... Though the natural weakness of her body hinders her from doing what only the strength of men can perform, she has a mind as valiant and as active for the good of her country as the best of us.

The best steam turbine at the time, invented by Gustaf de Laval, was an impulse design that subjected the mechanism to huge centrifugal forces and so had limited output due to the weakness of the materials available.

Despite having a perceived weakness against spin, Ponting played Muralitharan the best out of all the Australian batsmen.

The continental collision was probably at an oblique angle rather than a head-on collision, and this probably led to movement along strike-slip faults trending north-east to south-west across Scotland, the Great Glen Fault being the best example ( some of these fault zones may have been old lines of weakness from earlier earth movements ).

Particularly, married adults who aren't in love and who might know the others weakness best.

IGN noted their various weakness, though described them as " so popular it's sickening " and praised its design, naming Scyther the best of the Bug-type Pokémon to appear in Pokémon Red and Blue and made stronger with its evolved form.

For the diagnosis of impingement disease the best combination of tests were a positive: Hawkins-Kennedy impingement sign, a positive painful arc sign, and weakness in external rotation with the arm at the side.

To diagnose a full-thickness rotator cuff tear, the best combination of tests, when all three are positive: were the painful arc, the drop-arm sign, and weakness in external rotation.

If thoughts come to the mind intention, it is a natural human weakness, but one should try one's best and try to ensure with one's utmost that the mind and heart are wholly turned towards Allah, and the mind is in full harmony and tune with the tongue, and as soon as one becomes conscious of irrelevant thoughts one should immediately turn the attention to the Prayer ".

Contemporaries believed him to be the best captain in the country tactically, taking reasonable chances without too many risks and judging players strengths and weakness.

Thirdly, they decided that in view of the school's long-term financial weakness, the original mandate was best fulfilled by entering the state system.

The best of these stories were published in Dutch as well, just like it was done with the later Bessys, but the weakness of the stories ended the series after only four years.

Kinane was reported to have called Galileo the best horse he had ridden, saying, " There is no weakness to him ...

His keen eye for weakness in an opponent and ability to extract and employ the best powers of his own players caused him often, and with reason, to be described as the best county captain who never captained England.

The word is best translated ' meekness ,' not as an indication of weakness, but of power and strength under control.