The obvious weakness of the Mughal Empire invited Nādir Shah's descent upon the plains of northern India for plunder and spoil.
All the same, policymakers in Washington weighing whether to extend unemployment benefits and tax cuts should heed the obvious weakness in labour markets.
The obvious weakness in the plan is that there's nothing to stop me, or someone else with a bigger budget and better-known brand, coming along and doing exactly the same thing - at which point all those zubworld locations are going to crash in value.
And in an unusually frank admission for an Arab leader, he added yesterday: "Let me be candid with you: if it were not for the obvious weakness of the Arab world, we would have come up with an effective unified Arab stand that would have bypassed declarations".
The obvious weakness of the argument, however, is that not all versions of utilitarianism would measure individual utility in a way that may be entered in the computation of the expected utility of the impartial observer.
The obvious weakness with this "gift analogy" is that a gift, genuinely given, does not come with conditions such as that suggested by the analogy, i.e., once given, a gift becomes the property of its recipient and its giver no longer has any claim on what the recipient does with this gift.
