Sentence examples for peculiar weaknesses from inspiring English sources

"I am a Northern man," he told his officers, and "I know my people; I know their peculiar weaknesses and their national vanity; I know we can get better terms from them on July 4 than any other day of the year".

However, by adopting the strategies and methods given here, the reader should be able to understand the general processes that lead to errors, and might even be able to identify some of his own peculiar weaknesses and, hopefully, improve his error rate in the practice of imaging medicine.

He said that the essence of the scheme was "straightforward" and that the ringleaders, some of whom had arrest records for more traditional street-level crimes, had exposed "a peculiar weakness" in TD Bank.

Wrong-footed by his intransigence and with an international outcry building around the case, the courts passed the buck, appealing to Mr Khamenei for guidance.This placed him in an unexpected bind and exposed a peculiar weakness in his position.

But I'm going to take a risk and say that this peculiar weakness is more likely to be one of yours if you grew up in that era of Miss Moneypenny murmuring: "Oh, James!" when she was petted, pinched and generally handled like a briefcase.

Allen Brown described Château Gaillard as "one of the finest castles in Europe" and the military historian Sir Charles Oman wrote that: Despite Château Gaillard's reputation as a great fortress, Liddiard highlights the absence of a well in the keep as a peculiar weakness, and the castle was built on soft chalk, which would have allowed the walls to be undermined.

Part of it comes down to the peculiar human weakness for idolatry and deference to celebrities.

As time went on, he lost weight, was subject to extreme fatigue, and experienced a peculiar muscular weakness.

Not from any peculiar moral weakness but simply because such well-adapted administrators are themselves believers in a policy of economic development….

This paper will, however, focus on a different topic, tackling instead a peculiar practical issue: the relative weakness and the ambiguity of the phylogenetic signal in a context of a tree-like pattern of evolution.

And the truth is that male-against-male claims sit uneasily within the framework of sexual-harassment law, even as they expose, in their own peculiar way, some of the persistent weaknesses of that framework.