It affords St. Paul an opportunity of falling back on the general principle, that the measure of Christian strength and full-grown manhood is the readiness to bear the weaknesses of others.
Plainly His whole human life was putting Himself under the restraints which our weaknesses and narrownesses and slownesses laid on Him.
Of what use is it, many persons will say, to present to the world what is mainly a record of weaknesses and failures?
There may have been prompt release of unsuspected powers, and as prompt an imprisonment for ever of meaner weaknesses and tendencies; the result being literally a putting off of the old, and a putting on of the new man.
At times she appeared passionless, so completely did her intellect dominate, and so superior was she to all the little arts and weaknessesof women; but this was a criticism she contradicted continually.
The woman of character, her maternal instinct roused, marries him, bears him children, is both wife and mother to him, and finds in their united weaknesses such strength as she can.
She would lie wide-eyed at night and rehearse painfully the weaknesses she saw so clearly in him.
Is it surprising that the states which suffered most from these weaknesses of the potent delegates should have resented their misdirection and endeavored to help themselves as best they could?
It also gave time for the drafting of a compact so admirably tempered to the humanweaknesses of the rival signatory nations, whose passions were curbed only by sheer exhaustion, that all their spokesmen saw their way to sign it.
It is our duty to apply the full strength of our Government not only to the immediate phases, but to provide security against shocks and the repetition of the weaknesses which have been proven.
Measures to correct theseweaknesses will be later submitted to the Congress.
Scarred by the weaknesses of man, with whatever guidance God may offer us, we must nevertheless and alone with our mortality, strive to ennoble the life of man on earth.
To this end, steps have already been taken to remedy weaknesses which have been disclosed in the administration of the tax laws.
For a permanent correction of grave weaknesses in our economic system we have relied on new applications of old democratic processes.
And fifth, we must use the decade of the 1980's to attack the basic structural weaknesses and problems in our economy through measures to increase productivity, savings, and investment.
Evident weaknesses exist in the state of readiness and organization of our reserve forces.
Shakespeare pities is not physical weakness, but mental irresolution and incapacity for action, and these Hamlet-weaknesses are accompanied by a habit of philosophic thought, and are enlivened by a nimble wit and great lyrical power.
Shakespeare had many of the weaknesses of the neurotic and artistic temperament, but he had assuredly the noblest virtues of it: he was true to his friends, and more than generous to their merits.
People and priests looked on him as a spy sent to report their weaknesses to Rome.
Not that self-examination, honest and careful recognition of sins and weaknesses in presence of temptation, have no place in the prolonged course of discipline.
My soul, you think, should be free from jealousy and the other weaknesses of my sex.
That she certainly was not; for the immortals are free from the faults and weaknesses of humanity.
I dare not, therefore, beg of you again To sing another of the selfsame Strain; For fear it breed within them, more unrest Than women's weaknesses can well digest.
Only let us set our trust in Him, carry our weaknessesto Him, acknowledge our sins to Him, seek the touch of His healing and quickening hand, and the miracle shall be wrought.
By this time he had learned something of the hitting weaknesses of the Wind Jammers, and he played upon those weaknesses successfully.
I am rather surprised that the crude hedonism of Beatrice should have appealed to me, for my weaknesses had never really included mere fleshly indulgence.
Tens of thousands of these unclassed, denationalized foreigners lived and waxed fat by playing upon the foibles and pandering to the weaknesses of the great city's native population.
With all their strong points, the Japanese manifested weaknesses that may be shown again in future wars.
He was so certain of the happiness and joy which come from Salvation, that he had no patience with the trivialweaknesses of human flesh, which do not really matter.
It was on this very first day that I had the misfortune to throw her, though she was not subject to such weaknessesin general, into a state of violent consternation.
I felt as if I had come into the knowledge of those domestic weaknesses and tendernesses in a sacred confidence, and that to disclose them, even to Steerforth, would be wrong.
He is by no means inclined to favour the faults and weaknesses of the English; and in these cases he has the greatest and best among them--those whose reputation is universal--on his side.
It was one of my father's weaknesses that he sometimes forgot himself and did not sufficiently consider people's feelings.
On the other hand, the magma could find weaknesses we haven't detected.
Sometimes the channels areweaknesses in the whole surrounding earth structure, and the magma flows through cracks and emerges as sheets of lava.
Black Eagle has wholly failed as a commercial variety, and its several weaknesses prevent amateurs from growing it widely.
My friend had, as a matter of fact, accustomed himself to speak openly of the weaknesses of the deceased, who, in spite of all, had been a good friend to him.
But in the relative situation in which they now stood, he had gradually grown more and more attached to the old nobleman, and perhaps even the very weaknesses of his character made Wilton feel more like a son towards him.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "weaknesses" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
