11.   Friday, as at other critical junctures, the dissidents signaled their own political weakness by going for what amounted to a half-measure.

12.   Giuliani, who has his own political weaknesses, is far less well known nationally and still a rather elusive target for opposition fund-raisers.

13.   Indeed, Barak used his political weakness as a strategy before and during the summit meeting.

14.   It was a political weakness that was to stalk his presidency.

15.   President George Bush was often called to task for political weaknesses, rarely for his integrity.

16.   Ridge may be afraid that a candid discussion of his sweeping mandate will expose political weaknesses and prompt widespread doubts about his plans.

17.   That the president ultimately ceded so much to win Republican votes revealed his political weakness.

18.   The political weakness that resulted in the substitution of a Democratic Congress for a Republican Congress that made impeachment plausible.

19.   This theory has it that a Kremlin clique led by Berezovsky made the move while Putin was abroad to embarrass the president while reminding him of his political weakness.

20.   To compromise before it is absolutely necessary would suggest political weakness.