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He wants to be just anti-war enough to appeal to anti-war Democrats but just pro-war enough that he doesn't come across as weak-kneed.
If this movie makes you think that much, then you're too weak-kneed to vote.
His eyes met mine and I felt curiously light-headed and weak-kneed. I tore my eyes away with an effort, trying not to think about him.
Exercise seemed to help the nausea, although I was weak-kneed with hunger, cold, and probably fear.
It wasn't exertion that left him weak-kneed and trembling, but rather the gut-wrenching horror of Joe's scream and his pleas for mercy.
The weak-kneed do-gooders who apparently run this country have a lot to answer for.
Drastic cuts call for drastic counter-measures, not weak-kneed objections and compromises.
Hereabouts ewes wander at will followed by their weak-kneed, painfully innocent lambs, the majority just days old.
So prevalent are the warbloggers that they now have awards, just like the weak-kneed Hollywood liberals most of them despise.
Not all governments make weak-kneed concessions to guarantee fuel supplies.
The mere thought of this weak-kneed party getting into power sends shudders down my spine.
It's more important to keep law and order in this society than to be worried about weak-kneed people who don't like the look of helmets.
Which is why we will, along with other weak-kneed pacifist nations, likely pay for the lack of moral fiber of our own politicians.
But of course, we all know that this feeble rubbish is only a weak-kneed attempt to be amusing.
And everywhere in the American liberal establishment the media, the Democrats—he detects weak-kneed defeatists.
In 1992, in Canada, journalism was not a profession for the weak-kneed or the faint-hearted.
Canadians are fed up with the weak-kneed approach to this kind of incredible violation of the rights of law-abiding citizens.
In spite of all this, the government persists in taking weak-kneed actions.
These statements are neither radical nor weak-kneed, as Republican questions would lead you to believe.
As these weak-kneed leaders came under pressure for their practices and products, they turned psychologically inward.
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One glance at her, and both Hurstwood and Drouet saw plainly that she also was weak-kneed.
Up until she'd slapped me, I'd been weak-kneed and dry-mouthed with what I had to do.
The weak-kneed wastrel, receiving to his astonishment a shilling, departed.
The weak-kneed wastrel let fall the box with a thud upon the floor.
Mrs. Calvert's good nature was not the good nature of the faint-hearted or weak-kneed.
It was Drury Boldin, weak-kneed and putty-faced, who went hunting now.
If he is weak-kneed in a crisis, his followers will be weak-kneed.
Is it because the weak-kneed deal is increasingly unpopular with the public?
There's something old, as the title says, and plenty borrowed in this Britpop breeze, a bit weak-kneed compared to Good Vibrations.
A weak-kneed, chicken-livered, white-bellied old bullfrog that squeaks and jumps, plunk!
The sheep were to be washed and sheared, too, and the awkward, weak-kneed calves to be fed.
The Trojans are a weak-kneed people, or ere this you would have had a shirt of stones for the wrongs you have done them.
Beauty Smith was known far and wide as the weakest of weak-kneed and snivelling cowards.
Give weak-kneed politicians the boot or all those bonnie lads and lasses lost their lives for nothing.
She was in the street once more, feeling weak-kneed and light-headed.
Winks was the master of the upper third, a weak-kneed man with drooping eye-lids, He was too tall for his strength, and his movements were slow and languid.
Neville Chamberlain's name has become code for a weak-kneed, caviling politician, just as Winston Churchill has become the beau ideal of indomitable leadership.
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