The phrase "assume weakness" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where one is suggesting that someone should take on a position of vulnerability or lack of strength, either literally or metaphorically.
Example: "In negotiations, it can be strategic to assume weakness to gain the upper hand."
Alternatives: "take on vulnerability" or "adopt a position of weakness."
An assumed weakness of the medium is also a projection of the entrenched feebleness of (my) viewing habits.
By engaging examples such as Handel oratorios, Beethoven and Mahler symphonies, jazz improvisations, Bruce Springsteen, and prog rock, he argues that metaphors of perfection do justice to neither the perceived strengths nor the assumed weaknesses of the music in question.
Whether such assumed muscle weakness was present before injury or occurred as a (direct or adaptive) consequence of injury is not known.
Herein lies a major weakness of the powerful: they easily assume that the weak will give up in the face of overwhelming force.
The Chinese are "eager to punish neighbors such as Japan, Vietnam and the Philippines — and even India — who they believe capitalized on a period of relative Chinese weakness to assume control of disputed islands in the South and East China Seas," he said.
Because early weakness usually improves with treatment, albeit to a variable degree, it has traditionally been assumed that muscle weakness prior to treatment results from inflammatory processes, although the actual mechanisms responsible for inflammatory weakness induction remain unelucidated.
We did not report muscle weakness as a comorbidity in the present review as it can be assumed that muscle weakness is most likely present in those patients referred for pulmonary rehabilitation.
Most assumed that the weakness of the pound and the need to wait for incoming data would lead to a pause at least until August.
Many people have sought to explain our country's military inaction by assuming its military weakness... Our failure to take retaliatory military steps speaks not for any military deficiency or wavering will but for our humanity and good sense..
