6 sentences with “weakness”

Giving up control is often interpreted as a symptom of weakness.

With his earnings he had bought a 1985 Plymouth Laser from his father. The boy's only weakness was speed.

This system worked well in long campaigns, but its weakness was that it took up to two years to mobilise the entire empire for war, a serious issue in the long-term conflicts between Persia and Greece.

What the Greeks had never done, however, was to spread that culture and those beliefs to non-Greeks, both because of Greek belief in their own superiority and because of their relative weakness in the face of great empires like Persia.

These agreements were the origin of the 'capitulation agreements' that would eventually prove to be a major weakness for the Ottoman state, but were originally established to foster economic dynamism among minority religious communities.

In fact, the period between the end of the five good emperors and the collapse of Rome was far more complex than that of simple decline and weakness, and even when the city of Rome was unable to defend itself, Roman civilisation left a huge and permanent impression on Western civilisation.