The phrase "a weak approach" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a method or strategy that lacks strength, effectiveness, or robustness in a particular context.
Example: "The team's decision to rely solely on anecdotal evidence was a weak approach to solving the problem."
Alternatives: "an ineffective method" or "a feeble strategy."
Arguing the pre-emption case against that part of the Arizona statute was always a weak approach.
On the other hand, the Administration does not want to be seen to be taking a weak approach or to be sanctioning repressive Soviet actions in Lithuania.
It's such a weak approach, when Bing has a tieup with the orthogonally useful Wolfram Alpha), now faces Yahoo saying about 25 times more than seems comfortable about its implementation of IMAP on mobile.
Secretary General Kofi Annan said he would take the council's advice and appoint Mr. Blix, a Swedish lawyer who has attracted criticism for what some disarmament experts saw as a weak approach to nuclear inspections in his 16 years at the agency.
Making things worse, Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos took a weak approach to the situation, and Nicolas Maduro's provocation was left unpunished.
It was clear that increased repression wouldn't result in any substantive reaction from the international community if the so-called "leader of the free world" was taking such a weak approach on human rights.
"If you look at the likely course of the coming elections, the more likely outcome would be a weaker approach".
If the project aims more at a fuller understanding of a moral phenomenon, a "normatively weak" approach, such as narrative ethics, might be the better choice.
Many conservatives, on the other hand, argue that behind the raid that killed Osama bin Laden lies a fundamentally weak approach to rivals and rogue states like Iran, North Korea and Russia.
One example of such a "normatively weak" approach would be narrative ethics [ 41, 42].
Another large group of studies only examined these variables as binary variables, which is a methodologically weak approach.
