Sentence examples for demonstrate weakness from inspiring English sources

"CCTV is not there to demonstrate power, it's there to demonstrate weakness," he said.

This would demonstrate weakness of a particularly childish sort – the coat-holding boy who goads everyone else into a fight and steps back to watch.

Meanwhile, Republicans said that setting a timetable for withdrawal would demonstrate weakness.

Common beliefs in the Korean and Chinese communities that mental health disorders are Western problems and demonstrate weakness may inhibit expressions of illness and help seeking [ 57, 68, 69].

Mr. McCall did write the letters and the dust-up did demonstrate weaknesses in his campaign operation, and in his own reaction.

He also suggested the motive was to demonstrate weaknesses in the two companies systems.

It is beyond the scope of this entry to attempt to assess either the extent to which Austin should really be seen as a target of such objections or, if he should, whether they demonstrate weaknesses in his work.

In the past, emotions were often thought of as a set of characteristics that needed to be controlled at work as they demonstrated weakness and instability.

But now some conservative critics are saying the pay-increase episode demonstrates weakness as well as Mr. Jindal's unreadiness for the prime time of the vice presidency.

It's a fair bet that a demonstrated weakness for the works of Armistead Maupin has brought together a lot more couples than the equivalent for those of that old willy-waver Saul Bellow.

In the last several weeks, his former secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, has obliquely criticised his foreign policy, while his former defence secretary, Leon Panetta, has been more direct in his ingratitude: he accused the president of demonstrating weakness because of his new-found reluctance to use American military force around the world.