Examples of weak link

• We observe greater probabilities of survival for rivalries in which the weak link of the dyad exhibits low levels of democracy and development.

• In general, the dissipation rate model (with constant coefficients) represents a major weak link in turbulence modelling of complex flows.

• The weak link in this impressive assembly of evidence is the archaeology.

• Yet, as in the earlier phase, a weak link could cause the whole plan to unravel.

• Analysis of this relationship suggested there was at best a very weak link indeed.

• The weak link between copper and both arsenic and chromium suggests that copper is also present in other sources of waste.

• This chain of developments has a problematic weak link: after parasitic delinking, why does the floating mora skip the final consonant and dock onto the tonic vowel?

• Instead, the data provide only a weak link between peer rejection and antisocial peer involvement and a nonsignificant link between early externalizing problems and antisocial peer involvement.

• The weak link between stated goals and actual changes by individuals planning for retirement is consistent with recent research in behavioral economics, particularly relating to retirement saving.

• The weak link in the argument is the assumption that there is a possible world which may only be described as consisting of nothing but two qualitatively identical spheres.

• Economic interdependence also assumes the weak link: the score for the less interdependent state in a dyad is taken to be the stronger determinant of interstate disputes.

• If there is one weak link—say, in our cruiser strength—that will not only imperil but absolutely nullify the whole of our naval strength.

• The process has worked so far, but only just, and there has certainly been one weak link in the chain.

• Secondly, it weakens the already weak link between the services and the civilian population.

• Otherwise, we build a weak link into the agencies' operational security.