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.

Johnston, who had little choice in allowing Floyd and Pillow to take charge at Fort Donelson on the basis of seniority after he ordered them to add their forces to the garrison, took the blame and suffered calls for his removal because a full explanation to the press and public would have exposed the weakness of the Confederate position.

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.

Since playing a major role in the defeat of Napoleon, Russia had been regarded as militarily invincible, but, once pitted against a coalition of the great powers of Europe, the reverses it suffered on land and sea exposed the weakness of Tsar Nicholas ' regime.

The war resulted in the military occupation of Ethiopia and its annexation into the newly created colony of Italian East Africa ( Africa Orientale Italiana, or AOI ); in addition, it exposed the weakness of the League of Nations as a force to preserve peace.

After Yoshimitsu however, the structural weakness of the Ashikaga bakufu were exposed by numerous succession troubles and early deaths.

The war ended disastrously for the Dutch and exposed the weakness of the political and economic foundations of the Republic.

Halsall and Noble argue that the changes which took place were the result of breakdown in Roman political control, which exposed the weakness of local Roman rule.

The weakness of the British military command was exposed when a force was sent from Madras to support Muhammed Ali at Trichinopoly, but its commander, a Swiss mercenary, refused to attack an outpost at Valikondapuram.

For the Agikuyu soldiers who took part in the war as part of the King African Rifles ( KAR ), the war stimulated African nationalism and exposed the weakness of the Europeans who were oppressing them at home.

The new threat of soviet anti-ship missiles exposed a weakness in contemporary naval radar.

Clark returns, and finds that the phantom's true weakness is Blue Kryptonite, which reduces Clark to human-level strength when he is exposed to it.

Thereafter his weakness against quality fast bowling was exposed by Wes Hall and Chester Watson with innings of 12, 0, 10, 0, 23 and 20, but he recovered with 96 in the second innings of the Fifth Test, adding 197 for the seventh wicket with the wicketkeeper Jim Parks.

Cythera is not mentioned in the literary sources for centuries after its conversion ; in the period of Byzantine weakness at the end of the seventh century, it would have been exposed both to the Slavic tribes who occupied the mainland and to Arab raiders from the sea.

It exposed the constitutional weakness of Ming Dynasty's autocratic system when headed by a weak emperor as typified by Taichang and his successor.

It exposed a weakness in the war ’ s strategy: some of the “ successes ” different countries achieved could be attributed to bribes rather than battlefield victories.

Then, backed by German threats of war, Austria – Hungary exposed Russia's weakness by forcing Russia to disavow support for Serbia.

The onset of World War I exposed the weakness of Nicholas II's government.

In terms of military tactics, the battle exposed the weakness of pike formations against artillery, marking the beginning of the era of gunpowder warfare.

While there, her fear of being lonely is exposed and exploited as her weakness.

In the United Kingdom, the weakness of paper-based settlement was exposed by a programme of privatisation of nationalised industries in the 1980s, and the Big Bang of 1986 led to an explosion in the volume of trades, and settlement delays became significant.

Thoth-Amon was left shivering in a corner, his own weakness exposed.

Diederich's ideals: blood and iron, and the might of opulent power, are exposed as hollowness and weakness.

Its only weakness was an exposed core on its back, but Frax could usually cover this weakness when directly overseeing his creation.

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.

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.

Lenin ’ s policy of the right of nations to self-determination was aimed at preventing the disintegration of Russia during its period of military weakness.

Felmy noted the alleged panic that had broken out in London during the Munich crisis, evidence he believed of British weakness.

Myasthenia Gravis is a neuromuscular disease leading to fluctuating muscle weakness and fatigability during simple activities.

As for employment, a longtime weakness of the Spanish economy, after having completed large improvements over the second half of the 1990s and during the 2000s ( decade ), which put a few regions on the brink of full employment, Spain suffered a severe setback from October 2008, when it saw its unemployment rate surging to 1996 levels.

This weakness may be eliminated by designs where the fuel is preheated well above its ignition temperature, so that its cooling during its dispersion still results in a minimal ignition delay on mixing.

The utter weakness of the French at sea, due to long neglect of the fleet and the bankrupt state of the treasury, was shown during the Jacobite rising of 1745, when France made no attempt to profit by the distress of the British government.

This co-existence did not long survive his leadership, and the factionalism that followed contributed greatly to the Labour Party's electoral weakness during the 1980s.

Little is known about Alfonso except the bare facts of his reign and of his comparative success in consolidating the kingdom during the weakness of the Umayyad princes of Córdoba.

The Liberal Party finally split openly during the Maurice Debate in 1918, at which Lloyd George was accused ( almost certainly correctly ) of hoarding manpower in the UK to prevent Haig from launching any fresh offensives ( e. g. Passchendaele, 1917 ), possibly with a view to sending more troops to Palestine or Italy instead, and thus contributing to Allied weakness during the temporarily successful German offensives of spring 1918, in which British casualties were actually heavier than in their own offensives the previous year.

This weakness in National Semiconductor was evident in its failure to compete during the globalisation of Japanese semiconductor companies in the 1980s, followed by the Taiwanese and South Koreans.

When Leo Marks was appointed codes officer of the Special Operations Executive ( SOE ) in London during World War II, he very quickly recognized the weakness of the technique, and the consequent damage to agents and to their organizations on the Continent, and began to press for changes.

Seizing on this weakness, and a discontent with the British South Africa Company, the Ndebele revolted during March 1896 in what is now celebrated in Zimbabwe as the First War of Independence, the First Chimurenga, but it is better known to most of the world as the Second Matabele War.

Marlborough's weakness during Anne's reign lay in the English political scene.

In the reality of Superman & Batman: Generations, the Guardians revealed that Alan Scott's power ring was actually a Green Lantern ring despite its apparent weakness to wood after Hal Jordan successfully harnessed it against Sinestro, realising that the ring actually had no weaknesses except what the user believed it possessed ; the Green Lantern Corps were vulnerable to yellow only because they believed the Guardians when they were told about this weakness, and Alan's ring's weakness to wood was caused when he was taken by surprise and struck on the back of the head with a wooden block during his first time using the ring.

Philip responded to the perceived weakness of France during the Fronde rebellions of 1648 by continuing the fight ; he took personal responsibility for the decision to start a fresh, and ultimately successful, offensive against the French in Catalonia in 1651.

Musashi indicates that during battle you should not overuse one weapon — this is as bad as using the weapon poorly since it becomes easy for an enemy to find a weakness in your style after countless uses of the same weapon.

The emergence of the USA as an economic superpower ( and, importantly, the establishment of the U. S. Federal Reserve System in 1913 ), U. S. economic dominance from the second half of the 20th century onward, as well as economic weakness in the UK at various intervals during the second half of the 20th century resulted in Sterling losing its status as the world's most reserved currency.

Each of them has a distinct elemental weakness and, with the exception of Karmine, each is encountered twice during the adventure.

This dependence was identified as a weakness during the Falklands war and was one of the contributing factors for the emergence of the Skynet 4 tranche of space vehicles.