Sentence examples for weakness of the will from inspiring English sources

Philosophers these days call it "weakness of the will".

We have always known that people are liable, to varying degrees, to antisocial temptations and weakness of the will.

Teaching people about the hazards of multitasking doesn't lead to less texting in the car; learning about the weakness of the will doesn't increase the success of diets; knowing that most people are overconfident about the future doesn't make us more realistic.

In my profession, psychiatry, I have seen another vestige of Puritanism interfere with the treatment of serious psychiatric illness: the belief that medication for major depression or other debilitating illnesses reflects "weakness of the will" or a failure to deal with one's social or personal shortcomings.

Correspondingly, bariatric surgery has altered the conception of obesity from being weakness of the will to become a metabolic condition which can easily be treated (Hofmann, 2010).

Weak (unlike Strong) Internalists don't deny that the link between judgment and action is fallible: we suffer from weakness of the will or buckle under social pressure.

Then the underlying weakness of the economy will probably reassert itself, say experts.

The Bank thinks the weakness of the eurozone will affect growth in the UK, but not by much.

We can and we should deplore the weakness of the political will, in this country as in the United States and other rich countries, in dealing with the problem of urban air quality.

Poor control or weakness of the gluteals will lead to the valgus collapse, and thus increase the energy absorbed by the ACL.

I say "at best" advisedly, because there are good reasons to believe that the prolonged weakness of the economy will take a toll on its long-run potential.