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It is a decision of a weak leader, trapped in the past.

All the while, Anna was proving to be a weak leader.

Board members criticized him as a weak leader who demanded little from teachers.

What we heard today was a weak leader telling his party what it wanted to hear.

He had been accused of being a weak leader with ties to landowners.

Can politically weak leaders make compromises on the issues that go to the heart of the conflict?

The public does not want a weak leader.

Madero was a weak leader and quickly lost much of his support while in power.

These nations suffer from a lack of relatives as a generals, and significantly weaker leaders.

Millions of lives could have been saved had Britain's weak leaders been strong from the start.

Mr. Truman was thought to be a weak leader who could not carry out his strong predecessor's program.

Because of this, Jan was a weak leader, forced to follow the politics of the states.

Some said that marked you as a weak leader, but others said it revealed your national ambition.

Richard Cromwell was a weak leader, however, and ruled for only 8 months before resigning.

Being silent while terrible legislation like this is passed is the act of a weak leader.

Furthermore, though Hall was a paternal captain, he was a weak leader.

He was however considered a weak leader.

It also could broaden his support by helping him to overcome an image as a weak leader, said political strategists in both parties.

If he does not, he will come out as a weak leader and his party will go into elections divided.

All in all, Relander is remembered as a weak leader.

He was often criticized, however, as a weak leader, inattentive to details and prone to gaffes.

From others, it's, 'Let's see what a weak leader he is.'

Tatsuro proved to be a weak leader when the company faced tough challenges.

Or was he simply running scared, a weak leader helpless before a tidal wave of reform that swept all the country's politicians along with it?

Mr. Yeltsin may have been a democrat, but he was a weak leader who could not risk inflaming his main opponents.

Eventually, under weak rulers, an empire is therefore likely to break up.

If the law is successfully enforced, even a weak ruler will be strong.

However, he turned out to be a weak ruler.

He was followed by a series of weak rulers who allowed the city to fall into disrepair.

Along with these weak rulers came increasingly corrupt officials who took advantage of the decline.

A weaker ruler would find it harder to attract and maintain these relationships.

He is a rather a weak ruler, and his barnyard subjects don't think anything of him.

After his death came Aurangzeb and other weak rulers.

His respect is for the power of even weak rulers; the common people are invariably "the rabble."

He was a weak ruler under whom the principality declined in importance and influence.

Then followed a period of unrest characterised by family feuds and weak rulers.

He was regarded, both during his time and in later times, as dependent on others, a weak ruler and lacking of any talents.

John was a weak ruler who was unable to rule his indebted and corrupt country.

His successors were weak rulers and invasions of Madurai recommenced.

Along with Dragna avoiding the spotlight and public life, he often was given the reputation as a weak ruler.

Von Buseck proved to be a very weak ruler.

With the coming of a young and weak ruler, the party factions and struggle for supremacy was at its zenith.

He was a weak ruler and adopted a lenient policy towards the Mongols .

But they were ultimately weak rulers, and down in Ayutthaya a new class of more martial figures began to assert themselves.

Muda Hang was a weak ruler so the local chiefs started ruling their areas independently.

The power of the crown was severely restricted, and the magnates usually elected weak rulers in order to safeguard their own privileges.

Frederick is condered a relatively weak ruler, who was at times very dependent on the influence of his wife and her relatives.

Shashanka was one of his chieftains who rose to power taking the advantage of the weak ruler.

The early Romanovs were weak rulers.

Thuljaji was a very weak ruler and the last independent ruler of Thanjavur.