Galbraith's satisfaction, however, has much to do with what others see as the constitution's great weakness: that it prepares the way for Iraq to split into Sunni, Shiite, and Kurdish statelets.
The great weakness that Palin could not overcome is a "reality-based" problem: the economy is tanking.
What was in happier times the Queen's greatest weakness – that she does not in the circumstances of her life resemble her subjects – has paradoxically, at this point in our history, come to be her greatest strength.
Somehow, in a city that is visibly decaying, she rises above the chaos and, in so doing, offers her "rationista" friend a way to overcome his greatest weakness, "that English thing you call logic".
Allies hope that the prime minister avoids a return to his slick and aggressive Flashman tactics of old which are seen to alienate middle-ground voters by reinforcing his greatest weakness: that he is a son of privilege.
(With a few notable exceptions, Simon's plays are also an ongoing rewrite of his own story, and he considers it his greatest weakness that he is unable "to write outside my own experience". It's no coincidence that his latest play, like his first memoir, is called "Rewrites").
"We had great weaknesses in that we didn't have email trails.
The great benefit of philosophy, which is also its great weakness, is that all its steps are taken in the spirit of doubt.
The great weakness is that there is very little money, and the paper is under-capitalised, so our ideas come to nothing".
Its great weakness was that its rigid arguments rested almost entirely on aesthetic grounds; it lacked a mechanism by which empirical knowledge gained from experimentation or observation could be used to test, modify, or reject the fundamental principles underlying the theory.
