If the performance of their pitches is deemed sufficiently weak, what was intended as a shrewd business move could backfire badly.
During the deportations, hundreds of Jews, mainly those deemed too weak or sick to travel, were killed.
Downwind, other brothers were skinning and butchering the animals deemed too weak to go on.
Those whom he deemed too sick or weak to work at the required pace were taken from the selection area to the Lazarett.
Prisoners who survived the experiments, but who were deemed too weak for further tests were executed.
Kendal's shoot was deemed weak, while Esther failed to bring enough masculinity in her portrayal of a man, and they both landed in the bottom two.
Although the tropical low was reviewed for inclusion into the hurricane database as a tropical storm in 2005, it was deemed too weak.
It used to be a common practice for the inhabitants of surrounding villages to leave dogs that were deemed weak or useless here.
Those deemed too weak to work were murdered at Majdanek.
The linguistic and cultural differences among various Balkan groups were thus deemed too weak to prevent significant gene flow among the above groups.