It is considered bad manners and a sign of weak character to become visibly intoxicated from vodka.
Growing up Republican and poor in Oklahoma, she subscribed to her mother's belief that people who declared bankruptcy were "cheaters," but later in her academic research found the opposite to be true: personal bankruptcy is seldom the result of weak character, but of weak regulation.
In addition, respondents were asked to indicate on a three point scale whether they thought the behaviour described in the vignette was a normal response, typical of a weak character, typical of a mental illness, and/or typical of a general medical problem.
It describes the destructive effects of celibacy on a priest of weak character and the dangers of fanaticism in a provincial Portuguese town.
The latter half of the book is a heavy-handed, didactic lesson on colonial influence and the dangers of religion in the minds of people of weak character.
With men of Geithner's ilk having their back and the potential of huge financial rewards, many rational men of weak character assessed the risks and rewards of fraud and chose to enrich themselves, since the chances of being held accountable were slim.
He makes Türmer a whipping boy for weak character, a mascot of the greedy hordes who line their pockets as soon as the opportunity arises.
The most universal sign of a person of weak character is anger.
The two forms of Merlia normani provided important evidence for understanding that calcified skeletons are frequently homoplasious and therefore weak characters for demosponge phylogenies [ 43].
Kurlansky enumerates some of the explanations offered by the white press and politicians for why black people were rising up: heat waves, weak character, overcrowding, the writings of James Baldwin, and the radio patter of Magnificent Montague, whose slogan was "Burn, baby, burn".
