Yet the weakness of his position lay just in the fact that he was not ultimately responsible.
Clearly he hated the present weakness of the aliens' position, having to fence words with savages.
The weakness of my position was that I was an outsider.
He had just grasped the real weakness of his position.
Magruder realized the weakness of his position and ordered it strengthened.
But it acknowledges that they understand the fundamental weakness and wrongness of their position.
However, given the weakness of France's position since 1815, the task was not going to be at all easy.
When he saw the weakness of his position he killed himself!
He reviewed the whole thing and appreciated the weakness of their position.
Gamelin also claimed (in his book) that he did point out at this conference the weakness of France's military position.