Hitchens is apparently employing the Denis Healey defence, says Hattersley: "When in a weak place, quote a lot of names and places".
One Labour source said that the party was in a weak place to criticise the award because Spencer Livermore, who ran Ed Miliband's election campaign, received a peerage in the dissolution honours list.
"Our strategy for the future is that we will confront the regime in its weak places, and in the next period we hope to acquire weapons so we can be able to face the regime more strongly," Colonel Assad said.
The landscape reflects the fortunes of its inhabitants – the characters feel with each tide "the patches, strains and gaps in their craft, as if they were weak places in their own bodies", and when Nenna attempts a disastrous reconciliation with her husband, there is a predictably violent storm.
Our experiments proved that at certain conditions the use of thermovision for detection of weak places on loaded ropes and chains is applicable.
While I totally agree that it was the worst instance of industrialized mass murder in history…I'm very wary of using that as grounds because it strikes me as weak place to think from.
A strong place attachment that is determined by the quality of living environment and the length of residence proved to be significant predictor of anti-coal attitude, while the employment tied to coal industry and weak place attachments are key factors shaping a pro-coal attitude.
Finding a weak place at the Earth's surface it broke through, producing the volcano.
I'm not saying men can't learn to wield a sword well, they can and they do, but while many of my female students seem to have an easier time accepting the sword as teacher, as glowing arrow pointing in the direction of those weak places that need focus.
How he aided the city in its struggle against the great floods; how he instructed the bank to cash all paper issued by the city in those dark days; how his fortune was ready to be used in protecting life and property here, and how his barges were always placed in readiness to be sunk opposite weak places in the levee.
