De Tocqueville noted that democratic people have always had a weakness for memorialising their leaders.
Small, with cropped hair and a weakness for wide-lapelled, double-breasted jackets, he has an easy-going public manner.
Kirsch has always had a weakness for causes, but she learned to marry them to a disciplined approach.
IKB, a lender to small companies which was bailed out last month, had a weakness for exotic products.
But many share the left's sense of human vulnerability, and a surprising number have a weakness for psychobabble.
Laconic or no, Eastwood does have a weakness for a long, leisurely coda, and "Changeling" loses some of its sting as a result.
Similarly, one of the U.K.'s most pre-eminent crime writers, whose Rebus character is a cynical, down-on-his-luck, semi-alcoholic detective, reveals a weakness for high-end Cartier watches.
Throughout modern history, union leaders have shown a weakness for thinking that one of their core responsibilities is to discover some new way of human living on this earth.
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Part of the answer lies in the fact that the New York publishing establishment has a weakness for books that portray the upstart city of the West, its chief cultural rival, in the worst possible light.
He has a weakness for endangered species.
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Perhaps the absence of a strong stylistic tradition, married with a national weakness for eccentricity, allows British designers a freedom that their continental counterparts lack.
While he has a known weakness for Thoroughbreds, "My work is my passion, " says the executive chairman.
Australia searched for a weakness as a dentist does for holes and could find none.
In this scenario, Mr. Najib will at best be forced to govern from a position of weakness for the next five years, lacking a strong mandate to push through reforms.
But anyone who takes her young appearance as a sign of weakness is in for a shock.
Once a stock has begun to show a profit, I start to look for abnormal behavior or weakness as a sign it is time for me to sell.
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During a period of economic weakness, for example, a prudential supervisor concerned only with the safety and soundness of a particular institution will tend to push for very conservative lending policies.
In the past few weeks Iraq's prime minister, Nuri al-Maliki, has belied a reputation for weakness by sending the army to take control of the port city of Basra and the Baghdad slum known as Sadr City, both strongholds until then of the powerful militia run by Muqtada al-Sadr, a vehemently anti-American Shia cleric.
November's weakness was driven by a significant drop in demand for commercial aircraft, though weakness in autos, steel and defense communications equipment also played a role.
Shooting from long range, the Tar Heels were openly exploiting a season-long weakness for Villanova, which had struggled with perimeter defense.
Picking on a season-long weakness for the ninth-seeded Wildcats, North Carolina shot 11 of 21 from 3-point range while getting outrebounded 37-28.
The iPhone 4S was actually a relative moment of weakness for Apple, because it only represents an incremental improvement on iPhone 4.
The failure of these numbers to stabilize or improve going into early 2013 could signal a significant area of weakness for the economy.
In addition, the gold rush appears to have ended, networkers are so last year, commodities are on the run, the dollar is in decline, and yet the fear of inflation (in the emerging markets, that is) is cited daily as a reason for market weakness.
Partly responsible for the weakness is a Mexican court ruling that may pave the way for new entrants in the media business, says Christy.
Rather than a source of economic weakness, this renewed quest for homeownership could underpin a sustainable recovery.
In short, France is a place in which, for almost every weakness, it is possible to find a matching strength.
It's not a sign of weakness to look for help, to try to answer questions that you don't know the answers to -- it's a sign of strength when you do that.
Lastly, they put themselves in a position of weakness in negotiating for new content, meaning they will have to pay more than they want (or maybe can) in order to secure the streaming content their disgruntled subscriber base wants going forward.
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