"If that's the best they can do, you know, I think it's actually a statement of their weakness".
In its sympathetic portrayal of the mad boy Barnaby, and in its evocation of a turbulent London, it transcends the usual boundaries of the historical novel and becomes a complete statement of human weakness and communal power.
"If that's the best they can do, you know, I think it's actually a statement of their weakness," he said, playing down the assault that killed at least eight police officers and civilians, and wounded more than a dozen others.
"If that's the best they can do, you know, I think it's actually a statement of their weakness and more importantly since Kabul is in the hands of Afghan security it's a real credit to the Afghan national security forces," Crocker said.
He aims some of his fiercest attacks at Mr. Bush's frequent statement that perceptions of weakness, not the use of force, invite terrorist attacks.
In the former Florida governor's view, Trump's "rash statements" sent "signals of weakness" to the rest of the world.
The statement accused the group of weakness for offering a ransom to prevent the beheading of Nicholas E. Berg, the American businessman killed in May.
They will not be content to substitute a statement of strengths and weaknesses as a strategic plan.
"We're all scared, because this isn't a game"; "we've lost our heart at times": those aren't statements made from a place of weakness.
The housing crisis topped chancellor Philip Hammond's list, in the autumn statement, of the long term weaknesses in the UK economy.
