Achilles tendonitis — In most cases, Achilles tendonitis (inflammation of the Achilles tendon) is triggered by overuse, especially by excessive jumping during sports.
For more than a year, I've thought that Barack Obama's most exposed achilles heel would be Jeremiah Wright.
Fig. 3 Site of clinical complaints (a) and MRI (b) correlation of most relevant Achilles pathology sites.
It is the most common Achilles tendon disorder, with the highest incidence among runners, track and field athletes and volleyball, tennis and soccer players [1].
In this episode of In Business Peter Day learns the lessons from businesses that have fallen victim to corporate espionage and he hears that most companies' Achilles' heels lie in the least expected places.
In the Great Smartphone War, it's probably the platform's most inexplicable Achille's heel.
The three-day break since Game 2 probably benefited the Celtics the most, allowing Pierce (Achilles'), Ray Allen (chest) and Rondo (back) to heal from their injuries.
One of the most poignant is "Achilles on the Strand" (after 1775), a very finished work by Sergel (1740-1815), was was a French-trained Swede with a flair for mythological themes.
In The Iliad, the Greek siege of Troy runs aground when Agamemnon, the general behind the attack, falls out with his most prized warrior, Achilles, over which of them best deserves the beautiful young Trojan queen Briseis as a spoil of war.
The narrative is crammed with some of literature's most intriguing characters: Achilles, Hector, Helen, Paris, Priam, Odysseus, Agamemnon, Patroclus, etc.
