Hannibal, whose recent accessions of strength were largely discounted by the necessity of assigning troops to protect his new allies or secure their wavering loyalty, was still too weak to undertake a vigorous offensive.
In Afghanistan, General Eikenberry, who is leaving his post this month as the senior American commander in the country, said American and NATO troops as well as Afghan Army units had inflicted heavy casualties on the Taliban, which he said remained too weak to undertake anything other than hit-and-run attacks or suicide bombings.
Pollock has been an honest critic of the financial bailout program and the weak measures undertaken by both the Bush and Obama administrations to stem the epidemic of mortgage foreclosures.
If all it means is that you build a bunch of weak coalitions, undertake a number of crazy stunts, and fight vigorously with the people on your own side, then I'm not seeing how maverickism redounds to anyone's benefit.
Several experiments on weak nuclear interactions, undertaken after 1956, however, indicated that nature is not indifferent to the exchange of particles and antiparticles.
Recognizing this, and that the evidence-base of management is weak, the authors undertook a survey of practice as a preliminary phase of a large, pragmatic randomised trial.
Since 1990, the ruling elite has often insisted that state institutions are weak and incapable of undertaking the reconstruction of the country.
Professor Lamine (KUL), a former Vlaams Blok member and "advisor" of the party's legal team, claimed that the party, for propaganda reasons, purposely undertook a weak defence, in order to lose the case; "For the party leaders, losing was much more interesting.
Attempts to salvage the concept of a species tree, at least in a "weak" form, have been undertaken using comparative analysis of large, in some cases, genome-wide, gene sets.
When the vulnerability is disclosed publicly, a series of actions can be undertaken: disabling the weak system, updating anti-virus software signatures and publishing patches to close the vulnerability.
Instead, strive to identify and understand the weaker party's vantage point by undertaking the same thorough negotiation preparation and analysis that you would if you were in his position.
