One of the most common ways to colonize a people is to destroy their language, "to induce a historical amnesia" and to reconfigure a culture's history so that its seen with the colonizer's eyes desolate, weak, defeated.
One hopes that most of this can be simply chalked up to a party that is weak, defeated, directionless and out of ideas, but it may not be that simple.
Mr. Green is shaping up as the strongest candidate the Democrats could run against him, leading Mr. Bloomberg by 55percentto30percentcent, while Mr. Ferrer would be the weakest, defeating him by 46percentto36percentcent.
In the first two games of the season — a weak 3-1 defeat in Boston followed by a 6-3 loss at home to Pittsburgh — he spread the three players between two lines.
We have to change their perception to say, 'We have not lost, and you are too weak to defeat us.' If we do not do that, which is achievable, then we lose".
The death of the Serbian emperor Stefan Dušan in 1355 left his successors too divided and weak to defeat the Ottomans, despite an alliance with Louis I of Hungary and Tsar Shishman of Bulgaria in the first European Crusade against the Ottomans.
And if that leaves you too weak to defeat your Republican opponent next year, so be it!
Captain Canada has a nightmare that he is battling the Sho-Gun robot but is too weak to defeat it, so he resolves to augment his powers through good works and meditation.
Act like you're the king of the world and make sure that everyone knows that they are too weak to defeat the likes of you.
The nationalists claimed too soft a line from Moscow and too much eagerness for western loans would make the west see Russia as a weak, even defeated player.
