Sentence examples for rather a weak from inspiring English sources

As Robert Conquest, the great historian of the Terror, wrote: "A case in which there was not only no evidence against the accused, but they also denied the charges, would clearly be rather a weak one by any standards.

Hence, I find that the notion that her hatred and madness over the loss of her child has made her a malevolent force towards all parents and filled her ghost with a desire to inflict similar misery on them, rather a weak plot device".

Thus far, dermal uptake of chemicals across amphibian skin is poorly understood and only few studies address amphibian skin permeability to xenobiotics, suggesting that amphibian skin is rather a weak barrier to the uptake of chemicals [14 16].

Rather, a weak expression of MMP-2 and -11 was also seen on Western blot in this cell line.

Instead, the straw man such as a model where the estimated hazard rate is a single value fixed for all time was used, but it seemed rather a weak straw man.

Mayweather still has a chance to be a strong leader rather than a weak apologist.

I thought he was going to be a dyed-in-the-wool liberal rather than a weak centrist.

(For a simple proof of Theorem 1, except for a strict rather than a weak preference relation, consult Peterson 2009: 95).

The fallacy of ignoratio elenchi, or irrelevant conclusion, is indicative of misdirection in argumentation rather than a weak inference.

According to the South Korean-based Daily NK, Kim always travels with one or more portable toilets — for national security reasons rather than a weak bladder.

Therefore, the expression of these genes should be considered rather as a weak indicator of MSC differentiation into osteoblasts.