• One of those lessons is how weak Britain's influence has been over the American administration.
• Or is it that they were raised by a strong father figure and a weak female influence?
• Education levels, at least higher education levels, have a mixed and somewhat weak influence on rural income growth rates.

• This may raise a few eyebrows, but it is not the fault of an individual to be a member of a weak team.
• The team is so weak at cornerback that forcing the action in the opponent's backfield is the only way it can succeed.
• Having a weak team represent the league would be like sending a donkey to race against thoroughbreds.

• He has been left with slurred speech, and the left side of his body is weak after his brain was damaged.
• The arms may feel weak, the patient no longer being able to lift heavy objects.
• You may have a weak immune system.

• Although too weak for NBA standards, he is certainly not a liability on the defensive end.
• A pessimistic view would be that it is a question for weak students to do badly, average students to avoid, and for good students to prove.
• You know, when you're in a police force or in a firefighting unit, who the weak guys on your team are.

• Almost as bad is that it's artistically and logically weak.
• Although it has a superficial sheen, the film is mired in structural errors, weak plot contrivances and flimsy characterisation.
• For decades, such films were low-grade romances with weak plots interfused with 20-odd musical outbursts.

Synonyms

• In many ways, the force of gravity is extremely weak.
• In fact, scientists could and did show that gravity was too weak a force to account for the movement of continents.
• But even after nearly 90 years the theory remains notoriously hard to test because gravity is such a weak force.

• Refs aren't such weak characters that they would allow their impartiality to be compromised on this basis.
• Chelmsford, a man of weak character and mediocre talents, marched into Zululand only to suffer one of the most humiliating defeats in British military history at Isandlwana.
• In the myth-making of the Middle East, it allowed the West to be portrayed as weak and irresolute.

Synonyms

• While large numbers of Americans professed religious belief, the depth of their conviction appeared weak.
• He is a man of strong convictions and weak commitments.
• So the question is which of the political groups will later benefit from the population's weak attitude.

• Lagged realisation prices and weak markets are likely to have affected its coal and industrial minerals businesses, but that won't outshine the good news.
• Madden conceded that launching a crime title in the present weak market was ‘sailing into uncharted waters’, but said he was optimistic.

• Rinse off then give a final wipe over with a weak solution of vinegar and water to produce a sparkling surface free of streaks.
• At this point you may want to water the plant with a weak solution of balanced plant food.
• So this is my penance, she thinks, grimacing after taking another sip of the weak liquid.

Synonyms

• Sandra shifted her feet nervously and displayed a weak, but timid, smile.
• Kevin stood, brushing his hair out of his eyes with a weak, nervous smile.
• They still tapped their wrists together, though with such weak enthusiasm that they barely even felt it.

Synonyms

• The higher angle of the camera hides my weak chin.
• He had high cheekbones and did not have a weak chin.
• He looked like a natural for comedy with his weak chin, receding hairline and a nose that looked as if someone had recently slammed a car door on it.

• In many limericks extra weak syllables may be squeezed in almost anywhere, but we still recognise a familiar underlying metrical pattern.
• He pioneered a style of French text-setting in which the accentuation of weak syllables made for unusual forcefulness and clarity.