Sentence examples for sheer weakness from inspiring English sources

More recently, Ambassador April Glaspie's failure to be tough with Saddam Hussein at a critical moment in 1990 was interpreted as sheer weakness by Mr. Hussein, who soon after invaded Kuwait.

The predatory state, the extreme insecurity, the sheer weakness of the rule of law these are problems more profound, at this stage, than a traditional left-right analysis can clarify, let alone begin to solve.

The basic reason for this feebleness can be traced back to the sheer weakness of gravitation: electricity is a thousand trillion trillion trillion times stronger, which is why electromagnetic waves are commonplace, but gravitational waves were sidelined for decades as a mere curiosity.

Never mind 1929 -- that stock slump occurred in an environment of institutional weakness and sheer policy stupidity that I think (I hope) no longer exists.

What unites all these characters is not only the improbability of their triumph but also their sheer vulnerability, and even weakness, in the game of thrones.

No doubt, given its sheer size, incumbency and the unchanging weakness of regulators, Tesco will be able to occupy any emerging retail formats and fashions.

Beilein said McGary's sheer number of strengths also became his greatest weakness.

; Menard thinks he has found a weakness in Home Depot's armor: the sheer size of its stores.

What are the weaknesses of old methods, especially the sheer scale of information and ideas, are the strengths of a new model of funding which has the potential to tap an almost unfathomable collective intelligence.

Despite the weaknesses of Chinese IPR protections, the sheer size of the Chinese market and the profits to be made may entice further investment by foreign and privately held Chinese biotechnology firms [ 8].

The first is the sheer scale of the recession of 2008-09 and the weakness of the subsequent recovery.