Example sentences of "signs [prep] weakness " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fatal signs of weakness in American women 's fiction , these earnest references to ‘ cheerful support ’ , ‘ gracefulness and skill ’ , ‘ sensitive criticism ’ and ‘ inspiring example ’ are no doubt useful as emotional blackmail to inveigle the reader into the moist sisterhood of approval . |
| 2 | The monetary evidence is supported by various other signs of weakness . |
| 3 | Both are today showing signs of weakness , but they are still far short of the east-coast mess . |
| 4 | The loyalists saw the toleration of ‘ rebel ’ meetings as being the first signs of weakness which would only encourage the nationalists in their campaign to destroy Northern Ireland . |
| 5 | Where domination strategies are a pervasive feature of the culture of teaching in a school , pupils can be remorseless in their expectations that teachers conform to the ‘ normal ’ pattern and can exercise powerful sanctions of disobedience and disruption against those who allow reason or consideration of personal concern to show through , against those who seem to show manifest signs of weakness or softness , that is . |
| 6 | But in the mean time , encouraged perhaps by such apparent signs of weakness , perhaps simply by pressure on their order-books , the Edinburgh master printers began recruiting girl apprentices in larger numbers than ever before during the early years of the century , to the growing despair of the ETS and increasing anger from the male trade-union movement in general . |
| 7 | The brandy is racing around my body , looking for signs of weakness . |
| 8 | With the ground shifting beneath both ‘ imperial greatness ’ and unproblematic prosperity the Tories ' electoral bloc showed increasing signs of weakness . |
| 9 | Her imagination went wild ; she pictured Barney seated in a hard chair in a dingy police interview room while the detective probed and bullied and cajoled , plucking away at the outer layers of his mind , stripping it down to its sensitive core , implacable in his search for signs of weakness or guilt . |
| 10 | Despite other signs of weakness in the economy , today 's official sales figures suggest activity in the shops remains brisk . |