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How to use the word weakness in a Sentence? Page #3

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I know that San Francisco is a compassionate city. We are a city that prides ourselves on second chances and rehabilitation, but we're not a city where anything goes. Our compassion should be mistaken for weakness or indifference.

San Francisco

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The equity market weakness experienced thus far in 2022 is not unusual.

Sam Stovall

Found on CNN
2 years ago

You are only as good as your biggest weakness. Focus on what you don't know, not on what you believe you know to achieve success.

Andreas Simic

added by meristicfl
2 years ago

Vulnerability is not weakness, and the uncertainty, risk, and emotional exposure we face every day are not optional. Our only choice is a question of engagement. Our willingness to own and engage with our vulnerability determines the depth of our courage and the clarity of our purpose; the level to which we protect ourselves from being vulnerable is a measure of our fear and disconnection.

Brene Brown

added by Soulwriter
2 years ago

President Biden had the chance to actually stand up to Beijing’s genocide and human rights abuses, but again, he has chosen appeasement and weakness over strength and resolve, time and time again, Biden does the bare minimum when it comes to dealing with China and it’s absolutely unacceptable.

Rick Scott

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

By freethinking I mean the use of the understanding in endeavoring to find out the meaning of any proposition whatsoever, in considering the nature of the evidence for or against, and in judging of it according to the seeming force or weakness of the evidence.

Anthony Collins

added by Normando
2 years ago

Really it’s hard to knock any one area for them and see a weakness that’s pretty obvious.

Sun Devils coach Bobby Hurley

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Conspicuous weakness in exports...reflected a rapid decrease in car shipments due to production cuts, forced by semiconductors and other parts’ shortage.

Kenta Maruyama

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

It shows a general weakness that needs to be addressed because this is not the last time this issue is going to be front and center, they're talking about the backlog not being cleared until sometime, maybe at the end of the first quarter, the beginning of the second quarter of next year.

Jonathan Daniels

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

My personal view is that none of the sides want an [ armed ] confrontation, but everyone is afraid that if any side shows weakness or a lack of resolve, then the other side will misinterpret it, it's a security spiral, and there is no stability in a situation like this.

James Steinberg

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Frankly, I don't know who's behind it yet, sending me a message by shooting at my friend's car is weakness.

Volodymyr Zelensky

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We have an administration that does not know how to confront an adversary, understanding that they do not respect weakness, they only respect strength, and it is so greatly unfortunate, the consequences, and I believe that you, sir, should resign. That would be leadership.

Lee Zeldin

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

View diversity of thought as a strength, not a weakness to be criticized, i think people in general, but people particularly in our community here, respect someone who thinks for themselves that doesn't get sucked into the whole Hatfield vs. McCoy partisanship. People are just very tired of that.

Brian Fitzpatrick

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It is virtually impossible to stop viruses crossing borders, so a weakness in any country is a problem for every country.

Simon Clarke

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Young people are socialized to feel fragile and overawed by uncertainty (and as a result)… the defining feature of the current Western 21st century version of personhood is its vulnerability. Although society still upholds the ideal of sel-determination and autonomy, the values associated with them are increasingly overridden by a message that stresses the quality of human weakness. And if vulnerability is, indeed, the defining feature of the human condition, it follows that being fearful is the normal state…

Frank Furedi

added by Normando
2 years ago

Money on the sidelines ... was deployed into the market on weakness, and that has been a tale of the markets for the past six to 12 months.

Jeff Mortimer

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

I worry we are sending the wrong message to our allies and adversaries of weakness, our allies are questioning whether they can trust us, and our enemies no longer fear us, that is dangerous foreign policy to be engaged in.

Michael McCaul

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

My fear is that President Biden is projecting weakness, not strength, and that is very dangerous in the international community.

Michael McCaul

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We're dealing out of weakness, begging them. You don't do that. You need to have a strong America, a strong military, and deal with them in a way that makes sense, we never would have done this.

Van Drew

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Boys and young men are taught to avoid anything associated with femininity, most notably weakness, emotion, and homosexuality.

Katie Schweighofer

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We have been in there several times now. We have taken out samples. We've done the ground-penetrating radar. We're trying to determine the amount of steel, the thickness of the slabs, so we're trying to compile all that information and see exactly if there is some indication of weakness.

Surfside Mayor Charles Burkett

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Together with deciding not to impose sanctions to halt the completion of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, his limited demand on cyberattacks signals weakness that our adversaries will notice and take advantage of, president Biden's summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin confirmed our worst fear: he is too weak to stand up to adversaries.

Ron Johnson

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The narrative is clearly shifting towards inflation ... but perhaps more critically, you have got the U.S. dollar weakness, which is probably the key and prime driver.

Ross Norman

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

To make that decision to receive help is not a sign of weakness. In today's world, more than ever, it is a sign of strength.

Prince Harry

Found on CNN
2 years ago

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