Sentence examples for was both weak from inspiring English sources

Take, for example, the recent reshuffle, which forced the media to conclude that he was both weak and ruthless.

He knew that Libya's government was both weak and politically sensitive; he had to weigh his own safety against the risk of looking like an occupier.

In contrast, although [URE3] was both weak and unstable in the strain expressing only Ssa3p, overproducing Ydj1p cured [URE3] much less efficiently in A3 cells.

Part of the excess hype comprised the over-zealous application of ideas across very different fields, when the hypothesis (power-law degree distributions) was both weak and in many cases incorrect.

In other words, within entorhinal cortex, the activation was both weak and driven primarily by the other tail of the interaction, suggesting that activation in perirhinal and entorhinal cortices was not the product of a single, common process and was not consistent with an explanation of perirhinal activation in terms of encoding into or retrieving from declarative memory.

The speakerphone and the vibrations are both weak, though.

So union leaders are both weak (not representative), and strong (with their rights).

Republicans will be campaigning this fall on the idea that "Daschle Democrats" have been both weak and obstructionist.

It's one of the least competitive groups (Togo and South Korea are both weak at the back), with goals to be had for France and Switzerland (not great defensively themselves).

(In a defense that's both weak and disagreeable, he has said he doesn't mean it to apply only to homosexuals).

A problem like this (a "wicked problem" is the technical term) will frustrate almost any country, and particularly the United States, where government is designed to be both weak and responsive to its citizens.