MUMBAI, India — A day after the lower house of the Indian Parliament passed an anticorruption law that the activist Anna Hazare has dismissed as weak, he called an early end on Wednesday to a three-day fast for health reasons.
How depressing to be reminded of the many pitfalls that still exist from the subtle and not-so-subtle pressures around dress ("avoid dowdiness, flamboyance and sexiness") and behaviour (a strong woman is still considered a hard bitch; a more consensual female dismissed as weak) to the kind of shocking sexual discrimination that seems particularly rampant in Britain's orchestras, of all places.
Iraq's government is setting great store on provincial elections in the autumn, and Mr Maliki says he wants to disarm all the militias before they take place.In his onslaught on these armed groups, Mr Maliki, not so long ago widely dismissed as weak and sectarian, has won rare support from most of the main political parties across the spectrum Kurdish, Sunni and Shia.
In addition, although Doppelgänger has frequently been interpreted as a pastiche of major science-fiction films of the 1960s, including 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), some of the devices and imagery used have been dismissed as weak imitations of the originals.
"It's often politically more expedient for the district attorney's office to permit a grand jury to dismiss a weak case," Mr. Arshack said, "instead of dismissing the charges themselves".
And what is the Dodd-Frank financial reform law — which he dismisses as weak tea — if not a forced restructuring?
Black footballers were dismissed as psychologically weak and tactically inept.
Gorbachev, ceding independence to Eastern and Central Europe, is dismissed as pathetically weak.
The style is melodrama, which too often is dismissed as a weak genre; a good melodrama can be plenty entertaining.
When, in February, the government unveiled "Project Merlin", a plan to get banks to lend to small businesses, many dismissed it as weak (and still do).
