As grammarist.com points out somewhat tartly: Writers often use it to apologize for a weak phrase--often a bad metaphor, a corny coinage, or a phrase the writer is reluctant to use.
As grammarist.com points out: Writers often use it to apologize for a weak phrase--often a bad metaphor, a corny coinage, or a phrase the writer is reluctant to use.
Dr. Lukash advocated for the weaker phrase, "reasonable probability".
But she had, he says, "the terrible strength of the weak"—a phrase he knows he read somewhere but can't place.
The university now must answer for its failure to protect the children Sandusky abused, in some cases years after it had the warning signs it needed — if that's not too weak a phrase for one of its employees saying that he saw a boy being raped in its team's locker room.
"I would be going to visit a friend and she would say, 'Don't wear out your welcome.' This is something that I've constantly thought about, and still when I visit people I try to determine whether I'm in the process of wearing out my welcome". But she had, he says, "the terrible strength of the weak"—a phrase he knows he read somewhere but can't place.
For all weak recommendations, the phrase "We suggest …" is used throughout.
For all weak recommendations, the phrase "We suggest... .. is used throughout.
Regardless, the phrase "weak and naive" may be muttered with some regularity over the course of the campaign to come.
The degrees of seismic intensity were categorized from strongest to weakest using five phrases as follows: "violente secousse," "forte secousse," "secousse assez forte," "légère secousse," and "la secousse".
