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Politicians are often weak-willed and corrupt (as depicted in the new film Lincoln ).
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Joan single-handedly pushes a weak-willed, reluctant prince, whose very legitimacy is suspect, into being crowned King of France.
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Perhaps the biggest challenge is changing the perception that substance abusers are weak-willed.
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Unfortunately for Witte and Russia, Alexander died early and was succeeded by his utterly ill-prepared, indecisive and weak-willed young son, Nicholas II.
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The round-table deal was a canny fix, in which weak-willed opposition figures allowed the cronies of the old regime to maintain their power.
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Her mother was a weak-willed woman who couldn't protect her daughter.
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Aligning himself with strongmen may serve only to boost Mr Hashimoto's popularity, at a time when many Japanese are fed up with the weak-willed characters in national government.
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One of the tenets of radical Islam's strategy is that the United States is weak-willed, and will do little more than equivocate or vacillate in the face of threats.
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The twist is that Cady, in pretending to fall for their spoilt ways, really does fall for them, and the problem is that we ourselves never fall for this notion of Cady as weak-willed.
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Our withdrawal will encourage Iran to step up its support of dissidents in Iraq, and in the Middle East and elsewhere it will be seen as the terrorists' having triumphed over a weak-willed Uncle Sam.
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Certainly one would not expect a weak-willed coward to surge tens of thousands of combat troops into Afghanistan, nor would you expect such a milquetoast to dispatch a large number of flying death robots to regularly dispense extra legal justice-via-missile across a broad swath of the Middle East and Pakistan.
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