Sentence examples for proven too weak from inspiring English sources

Prisons in Mexico remain so rife with corruption that many traffickers had been able to manage their illegal businesses from behind bars, and courts have proven too weak to deliver swift, substantial sentences.

But Mr Kuchma's pull in parliament proved too weak.

If his powers do prove too weak, he has promised to make that clear to government.

Last year the country's 120 life firms set up a rescue fund, in case any should prove too weak.

His injured hand proved too weak for the job, and he fell to the floor, severely but not mortally wounded.

An Austrian unit captured Sommocolonia and Barga on Dec. 26, but proved too weak to hold its gains.

At the same time, the police and paramilitary forces have proved too weak to stand up to the militants.

It is possible that "diversity" will ultimately prove too weak a term to do all that is asked of it.

Although President Kabila had set yet another date (late in May) for the FDLR to disarm, the DRC army proved too weak to enforce the decree.

Voices calling for the kind of sweeping, liberal reforms that might have pulled Arab countries into line with the rest of the world almost always proved too weak.

In fact, the main concern reasonable people have about the Fed's plans — a concern that I share — is that they are likely to prove too weak, too ineffective.