Sentence examples for are so weak as from inspiring English sources

The Dodd-Frank financial reform law called on regulators to establish "enhanced protection" for municipalities and other clients in their dealings with Wall Street, but the Securities and Exchange Commission has not yet completed rules, while the Commodity Futures Trading Commission's rules are so weak as to virtually invite the banks to exploit municipalities.

"One MP", or "a government colleague" is so weak as to be meaningless.

The economic "recovery" is so weak as to be virtually nonexistent.

When it reaches the ground, after about sixty-seven mitlisecondso it is so weak as to be almost imperceptible.

While Sunday's El País column that dismissed Neville as useless because he is English was so weak as to be best ignored, there is concern for Neville.

The whole thing is so weak, as if not even the most basic effort has been made to decide whether Ladgrove is playing Jesus, or just himself.

How could the Turkish intelligence service be so weak as to allow this to happen next door to military barracks and government buildings?

"The garrison is so weak as to invite an attack". 1 2 Next Page » Ted Widmer is the director of the John Carter Brown Library at Brown.

Radowitz soon became convinced that the confederation was so weak as to be almost useless, and he began to work for its reform, a process in which he felt Prussia should take the lead.

If indeed the Kennedy program is so weak as to be expendable, then one would expect its students to be directed to a comparable or even better auto tech program elsewhere.

But Jim Norton, Vice President of the British Computer Society and Visiting Professor of Electronic Engineering at Sheffield University, thinks those figures paint a generous picture, since, for many people in remote areas, the broadband signal is so weak as to be near to useless.