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weakness and was
He had found Curt's weakness, or what to Jess was a weakness, and was smart enough to take advantage of it.
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.
That was Tom's weakness ; ;
it was merely another part of his weakness.
I must know that that was my greatest weakness underlined three times.
For the oyabun to make such a trip was either a sign of great weakness or an indication of equally great confidence, and from all the available information it was probably the latter.
This patient was a 65-year-old white male accountant who entered the New York Hospital for his fourth and terminal admission on June 26, 1959, because of disabling weakness and general debility.
In September, 1958, the patient developed generalized weakness and fatigue which was concurrent with exacerbation of his anemia ; ;
By Nov. 8, 1958, weakness, specifically involving the pelvic and thigh musculature, was pronounced, and a common complaint was `` difficulty in stepping up on to curbs ''.
Prednisone, 30 mg. daily, was substituted for triamcinolone from Nov. 22 until Dec. 1, 1958, without any improvement in the weakness.
Serum potassium at this time was 3.8 mEq. per liter, and the hemoglobin was 13.9 gm. By Dec. 1, 1958, the weakness in the pelvic and quadriceps muscle groups was appreciably worse, and it became difficult for the patient to rise unaided from a sitting or reclining position.
Chlorothiazide was omitted for a 2-week period, but there was no change in the muscle weakness.
In spite of normal thyroid function tests, a trial of propylthiouracil, 400 mg. daily for one week, was given but served only to intensify muscle weakness.
The terminal hospital admission on June 27, 1959, was necessitated by continued weakness and debility complicated by urinary retention and painful thrombosed hemorrhoids.
Mrs. B. compared her feelings of weakness to her feelings of weakness and helplessness at the time of her mother's death when she was eight, as well as her subsequent anger at her father for remarrying.
The artistic generation after Brumidi was trained in the Paris of that time to a more meticulous standard of execution, and tended to overlook greatness of conception where faults and weakness were easy to find.

weakness and compounded
To defend these territories, the Polish military command compounded their strategic weakness by massing their forces along their western border, in defence of Poland's main industrial areas around Poznań and Łódź, where they could be easily surrounded and cut off.

weakness and by
Placing missiles in submarines, on barges, railroads, highways, surface vessels and in the air provides them with passive protection by taking advantage of the gravest weakness of long-range ballistic missiles today -- the extreme difficulty of destroying a mobile or moving target with such weapons.
For example, some contemporary writing tends to fuse the `` good guys '' and the `` bad guys '', to portray the weak people as heroes and weakness as a virtue, and to explain ( or even justify ) asocial behavior by attributing it to deterministic psychological, familial, and social experiences.
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 ''.
In 2002, a theoretical attack, termed the " XSL attack ", was announced by Nicolas Courtois and Josef Pieprzyk, purporting to show a weakness in the AES algorithm due to its simple description .< ref >
An important weakness of abatis, in contrast to barbed wire, is that it can be destroyed by fire.
When he discovered that the original Desiree, Glynis Johns, was able to sing ( she had a " small, silvery voice ") but could not " sustain a phrase ", he devised the song " Send in the Clowns " for her in a way that would work around her vocal weakness, e. g., by ending lines with consonants that made for a short cut-off.
Finally the standoff was broken by a traitor in Caesar's army, who informed Pompey of a weakness in Caesar's wall.
To prevent muscle weakness and incisional hernias, the portion of abdominal wall exposed by reflection of the rectus abdominis muscle may be strengthened by a piece of surgical mesh placed over the defect and sutured in place.
It tried to keep a fixed exchange rate, and attempted to deal with inflation and sterling weakness by credit and exchange controls.
Those who were chained to the spot by the weakness of their sex, or the infirmity of age, or the attractions of the place, were cut off by the enemy.
The stubborn defense by US units and German weakness led to a defeat for the Germans.
Fighting was close, with the core of excellent Cossack infantry making up for the weakness of their cavalry ; much of the decisive fighting was by the infantry and dismounted dragoons of each side.
Frustrated by the Qing court's resistance to reform and by China's weakness, young officials, military officers, and students began to advocate the overthrow of the Qing Dynasty and the creation of a republic.
The attempted coup d ' etat by Silius and Messalina had probably made Claudius realize the weakness of his position as a member of the Claudian but not the Julian family.
In addition, Khrushchev ’ s impression of Kennedy ’ s weakness was confirmed by the President ’ s soft response during the Berlin Crisis of 1961, particularly the building of the Berlin Wall.
Following World War II the duration of civil wars grew past the norm of the pre-19th century, largely due to weakness of the many postcolonial states and the intervention by major powers on both sides of conflict.
Impairments caused by local brain tissue damage on the bleed site are also possible, including seizure, one-sided weakness ( hemiparesis ), a loss of touch sensation on one side of the body and deficits in language processing ( aphasia ).
The weakness of Germany's strategic position was exacerbated by the rapid collapse of the other Central Powers in late 1918, following Allied victories on the Macedonian and Italian fronts.
During the Indian Rebellion of 1857, some British officials suggested restoring Peshawar to Dost Mohammad, in return for his support against the rebellious sepoys of the Bengal Army, but this view was rejected by British political officers on the North West frontier, who believed that Dost Mohammad would see this as a sign of weakness and turn against the British.

weakness and fact
Now in the mere fact of the beginning of such displacement we have prima-facie evidence of the ontological weakness of the fading form.
The witness will try typically to explain and clarify, which sometimes reveals weakness in the witness's statements of fact.
Other impairments, though, can at first seem completely non-related to the limb weakness but are, in fact, a direct result of the damage to the affected side of the brain.
Although little is known about this period in Rome, there is one thing that is for certain: the fact that Boniface ’ s last reign lasted eleven months without any imperial intervention is evidence of not only the weakness of the government of this time, but also is proof that despite his actions and opposition, he must have had much support.
The Pesarese line of the Malatestas tried, in fact, to take advantage of his weakness and to capture the city, but Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta, Carlo's nephew, who was only 14 at the time, intervened to save it.
It is probably the fact that friendly fire has proven to be the only fundamental weakness of the tactics that has caused the American military to take significant steps to overturn a blasé attitude to friendly fire and assess ways to eliminate it.
As Dixon argues: " The crucial weakness is that, at each step, the firms behave myopically: they choose their output to maximize their current profits given the output of the other firm, but ignore the fact that the process specifies that the other firm will adjust its output ...".
Hastings is also chivalrous, possessing a pronounced weakness for pretty women with auburn hair ( a fact that gets him and Poirot into trouble more than once ).
The king lost the support of many magnates while on campaign and the weakness of the monarchic institutions by that time are evident in his inability to effectively make war without the support of the magnates ; in fact, he could not even provide his own bodyguard without the loyal aid of Grimoald and Adalgisel.
" In resurrecting Jason from the dead, McLoughlin also gave him the weakness of being rendered helpless if trapped beneath the waters of Crystal Lake ; inspired by vampire lore, McLoughlin decided that Jason had in fact drowned as a child, and that returning him to his original resting place would immobilize him.
In fact, the first climbers considered an untucked shirt or unbuttoned sport jacket a sign of weakness.
However, the underlying financial weakness of both former railroads, combined with the fact that the ICC forced the chronically weak New Haven Railroad into the system, doomed the Penn Central, and bankruptcy was declared shortly a little over 2 years later, on June 21, 1970.
The weakness of the line is illustrated by the fact, that the amount of concrete used in the whole Mannerheim Line-14, 520 cubic meters or-is slightly less than the amount used in the Helsinki Opera House ( 15, 500 cubic meters or 547, 000 cubic feet ).
The cipher's primary weakness comes from the fact that if the cryptanalyst can discover ( by means of frequency analysis, brute force, guessing or otherwise ) the plaintext of two ciphertext characters then the key can be obtained by solving a simultaneous equation.
( This was in fact misinterpreted by many Wu officials as a sign that Shu was abandoning the alliance and entering into a treaty with Wei, but was correctly read by Wu's emperor Sun Quan as merely a sign of weakness, not an abandonment of the alliance.
Ryoma had not let on to the fact that the serve had been weakening in power as the games progressed ; as such, Tanishi was unaware of his own weakness, allowing Ryoma to get a return ace.
Since July 1, 2006, the GSMA ( GSM Association ) mandated that GSM Mobile Phones will not support the A5 / 2 Cipher any longer, due to its weakness, and the fact that A5 / 1 is deemed mandatory by the 3GPP association.
When he falls down a flight of stairs, however, his legs fail to heal, a genetic weakness that stems from the fact that his parents are first cousins.
Yet the weakness of his position lay just in the fact that he was not ultimately responsible.
The weakness of Faulkner's position within Unionism was reflected in the fact that only about a dozen of the 250 odd local councillors elected for the UUP in 1973 chose to join the new party.
1UP. com editor Jeremy Parish shared the sentiment, stating " the fact that his schemes ultimately boil down to creating eight themed robots with a fatal weakness to one another's powers casts his ' genius ' descriptor into doubt.
Perhaps the sword's only true weakness is the fact that it is very sensitive to salt water ( and even to eye tears ); even a slight splash will cause it to spontaneously lengthen against Kojiro's will, making it inadvisable to use in a battle where a large body of salty water happens to be nearby.
In fact, many who knew him said women were Curly's main weakness.
His only weakness ( if it can be called such ) is the fact that if he loses his shadow, he becomes vulnerable.

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