Sentence examples for weak to avoid from inspiring English sources

Colonel Qaddafi kept most of his forces weak to avoid coups.

The millions of pounds he funnelled towards these and other contacts – corrupt police officers, double-dealing army officers, IRA members and others – fed money into organised criminal networks around the world, principally in countries where the state was too weak to avoid being overwhelmed by them.

When applying under the eyes dab on with the ring finger – which tends to be the weakest – to avoid pressing hard on the delicate skin.

Take an objective look at your core.Make sure your core isn't your weakest link to avoid weakest link syndrome.

Robins frames his argument in terms of a dilemma: either the principle of fairness is sufficiently strong to generate promissory obligations, in which case it is a principle of tacit consent, and thus the appeal is circular, or the principle of fairness is weak enough to avoid circularity, and thus too weak to ground promissory obligations.

The proposed Portuguese "fiscal devaluation" — meaning lower payroll taxes to reduce labor costs and an increase in the value-added tax to replace the revenue — looks like a weak attempt to avoid talking about the need to cut public spending and wages much more sharply in real, purchasing-power terms.

In this way, we find that the compatibilist strategy has sought to find an account of the causal relation that has to be "weak" enough to avoid implying compulsion and "strong" (robust) enough to connect agent and action.

Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki could easily be dumped, but he is likely to be replaced by another weak placeholder to avoid all-out conflict between Sadr and SCIRI, who wield the real power.

Since the pitch of AAM is proportional to the applied anodization potential, high anodization voltage need to be applied to get large-pitch AAM; as a result, the anodization electrolyte should be weak acid to avoid chip burning from occurring.

Wainwright warned walkers with weak ankles to avoid it.

In general, scores for a single leaf tended to range over a full rank (four subranks), and the only effect of extensive prior experience seemed to be a weak propensity to avoid very high and low ranks.