Sentence examples for weaker flank from inspiring English sources

"Van Gaal's made a few changes, Darmian coming back is a plus - even if he is playing on his weaker flank - and there's a better balance to the sides.

The operation was a "deep penetration" maneuver, attacking not the main German force at the forefront of the battle for Stalingrad the 250,000 remaining men of the Sixth Army and Fourth Panzer Army, both formidable foes but instead hitting the weaker flanks.

Third, we proposed that the exon skipping was largely due to the weaker flanking splice sites.

But the economy is his weak flank.

The Pakistani Navy is a relatively weak flank and an easy target, he said.

Opposition deputies, meanwhile, have been trying to wear down the Fianna Fáil-Green coalition's weak flank.

Dugdale insisted she would make education a priority, an increasingly weak flank for the SNP after a recent survey found a drop in standards in reading and writing.

Three times Hood asked Longstreet for permission to shift to the right to take advantage of the Union's weak flank.

The political furore this week over the Airports Commission's recommendation to expand Heathrow has obscured a more profound debate about aviation's weakest flank: the environment.

"My theory about the newspaper market is that the billionaires circling the city look only at the tabloid flank, but the weak flank in New York is the Times," he said.

So, there is money to protect the Conservative party's weak flank (health); there is money allocated for infrastructure projects heavily weighted to marginal seats; and there are overtures to minor parties that might be useful if there is another hung parliament come the May election.