The phrase "a state of weakness" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a condition or situation where someone or something is lacking strength, either physically, emotionally, or metaphorically.
Example: "After the long illness, she found herself in a state of weakness, struggling to regain her strength."
Alternatives: "a condition of fragility" or "a phase of vulnerability."
His health deteriorated on the way, and Ewelina wrote to her daughter about Balzac being "in a state of extreme weakness" and "sweating profusely".
Mr. Roach and others doubt a third rate cut will be able to cure what currently ails the equity market: high valuations, falling earnings and what is seen as a prolonged state of weakness in the technology sector.
The importance of Ferrybox data in evaluating the reliability of predictive operational models needed in decision support is also demonstrated, by highlighting both strengths and weaknesses in a state-of-the-art ecosystem model designed for UK shelf waters.
Prolonged critically ill patients enter a state of hypercatabolism and muscle weakness, which has been associated with increased morbidity and mortality.
In his weekly televised address, Maliki said he hoped parliament could get past its "state of weakness" and reach consensus in its next session, planned for Tuesday.
Look at what befell the young, bold, passionate country we had here, and how, as if it had undergone a quickened aging process, Israel lurched from infancy and youth to a perpetual state of gripe, weakness, and sourness".
On the whole, Pakistani women and men viewed blood donation as a doable act despite emic understandings that blood loss causes kamzori (weakness), a state manifested by sense of weakness, dizziness and an inability to work.
When biological specimens are in the frozen state, membranes have a plane of weakness in their hydrophobic interior so that if the sample is broken or fractured, the fracture plane will often split the membrane into half-membrane leaflets, each corresponding to a phospholipid monolayer with associated proteins.
Terry McAuliffe, Clinton's campaign manager, argued that Obama's defeat in Indiana - which borders his home state of Illinois - was a sign of weakness for his candidacy.
The roots of corruption in Italy lie partly in the country's brief history as a state and in the weakness of its institutions.
