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"Achilles heel" Definitions
  1. a weak point or fault in somebody’s character, which can be attacked by other people

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This is the Achilles' heel of radical Whiggism, and we know that it is its Achilles' heel because one day it produces an Achilles, and the next a heel.
They'd better figure out his Achilles' heel -- and quick.
My childhood love of hair metal is my Achilles' heel.
"Siri is Apple's biggest Achilles' heel in AI," said Bretschneider.
Baghdadi's dominant position was in some respects ISIS's Achilles heel.
"That's sort of an Achilles heel for bacteria," he said.
But it also draws attention to Mr Selmayr's Achilles heel.
Levy had referred to the hybrids as EDF's Achilles heel.
The popularity of the site is also its Achilles' Heel.
The Achilles heel of his campaign has been Southern blacks.
"Trump's Achilles heel is his massively thin skin," Moore added.
" However, their strategy had what he calls an "Achilles' heel.
"Today exposed our Achilles heel," said team boss Toto Wolff.
Health care is an Achilles' heel for many of them.
We had such an Achilles' heel not so long ago.
That's been kind of our Achilles heel at this point.
However, a possible Achilles heel is her support for Corbyn.
I know this all too well — empathy is my Achilles' heel.
Industrials are shaping up to be the Achilles' heel for earnings.
NATO's need for consensus is often seen as its Achilles heel.
We've got an Achilles heel when it comes to applying makeup.
Designed to brave the elements, consider it Mother Nature's Achilles' heel.
In other words, "Twitter embarrassments" are hardly President Trump's Achilles' heel.
Failure to respond is another Achilles heel for pre-election polls.
In 229, Sanders's Achilles heel was black voters and older Democrats.
What do you think his Achilles Heel was during the trial?
Otherwise, the Cybersecurity Act could create an Achilles heel of vulnerability.
Voting is the free world's Achilles heel and/or Trojan horse.
The topic of migration has been an Achilles' heel for Merkel.
"Exports continue to be the sector's Achilles heel," Schiemer told reporters.
"Exports continue to be the sector's Achilles heel," Schiemer told reporters.
That may be the Achilles heel of Siri in some regards.
Aritzia is my Achilles' heel; half my wardrobe is from there.
More than safety or waste issues, cost is nuclear's Achilles' heel.
ACHILLES HEEL The investment bank generates about half of Deutsche Bank's revenue but is also considered its Achilles heel, with European regulators fearful that it will fail the next round of stress tests in the United States.
This is his Achilles' heel … everyone here has a sense of humor.
Organization: Organization has always been an Achilles heel for the Trump campaign.
"It&aposs really been an Achilles heel," defensive coordinator Andy Buh said.
" One aide said the matter of Russian interference was his "Achilles heel.
YouTube easy account creation will be the Achilles heel of this service.
Here we have what is really the Achilles' Heel of both devices.
I think his Achilles' heel is that he wants to be liked.
A few weeks ago, Vox's David Roberts explained Donald Trump's Achilles heel.
But international relations may be this cat's Achilles' heel, so to speak.
Ratings agency Fitch, however, suggested political uncertainty would remain the Achilles heel.
That honking, 6.2-liter V228 up front had become an Achilles' heel.
"I think the Achilles' heel continues to be the valuation," added Sanchez.
Safety has been a long-running Achilles' heel for ride-hailing companies.
Attempts to deal with Africa's narcotic Achilles Heel have not gone well.
TIRED: The Osmo Action has an Achilles' heel: It lacks GPS support.
His Achilles heel, as ever, is the creepy thing he's got for Sansa.
"The president regards Huawei as the Achilles' heel" of Chinese leader Xi Jinping.
A naked Achilles heel ... 'cause the Patriots superstar's biggest problem is being barefoot!
" To him, the "Achilles heel" for Republicans is what he calls "ethnic voters.
Wall Street's waning demand for loans exposed the Achilles' heel of marketplace lending.
This march toward adverse selection is the Achilles heel of all insurance products.
Achilles' heel for Lindsey," Harrison said, "because it's a glimpse into his character.
So Russia exposed America's Achilles heel," Harris said on NBC's "Meet the Press.
Our military, however, has an enormous Achilles' heel: its all-volunteer manpower system.
He was drinking a gin-and-cucumber house cocktail called the Achilles Heel.
Achilles Heel, 180 West Street (Green Street), Greenpoint, Brooklyn, 347-987-3666, achillesheelnyc.com.
Consequently, proportionality is generally considered the Achilles heel of the law of war.
Trevor, her fellatio-obsessed former boyfriend, says her beauty is her Achilles' heel.
Information technology and our overreliance on cyber capabilities could be our Achilles heel.
That is a big Achilles heel, because they have always come up short.
This is the exact kind of brain-melting sludge that is my Achilles heel.
Dani must also have her Achilles heel — or this wouldn't be Game of Thrones.
His closeness to the former president is an advantage but also his Achilles heel.
Ultimately her vulnerability wasn't her Achilles heel so much as the making of her.
At Achilles Heel, the short menu is something else: thoughtful, engaging, subtle and intimate.
That may well prove to be the Achilles heel of the US-Russian agreement.
Those factors seem like they could be Mnuchin's saving grace and Price's Achilles heel.
But, that strength of reach and easy subscriptions is also its fundamental Achilles heel.
Code-named "Dark Ages," the plot aims at America's Achilles' heel—its own greatness.
Fifteen years ago, he warned: "Privacy is the Achilles' heel of Internet travel planning".
Having a sizable content team was both our biggest strength and our Achilles heel.
The shortage could be the Achilles heel of one of Europe's fastest growing economies.
The pharmaceutical-supply chain, the Achilles' heel in many tuberculosis-ridden countries, is impressive.
"They know where we have the Achilles' heel," Mr. Bakary said of Boko Haram.
Amazon's inattention to developer needs could ultimately be an Achilles heel for the company.
Its rarity made heavy water the Achilles' heel of the German nuclear bomb program.
Kamala Harris' ability to connect with voters is the Achilles' heel of her presidential campaign.
The exclusion of groups like Fateh al-Sham is the Achilles heel of the ceasefire.
But standing between Mayor Pete and the Democratic nomination is his Achilles Heel: black voters.
The real Achilles heel of the oil market remains the key demand center of Asia.
But Ramsay's plan similarly uses Jon's Achilles' heel against him: his endless reservoirs of loyalty.
If American Crime has an Achilles' heel, it's a desire to be everything to everyone.
Being from a town a few hours' drive from San Francisco is an Achilles' heel.
The seemingly miraculous reprieve occurred because a security researcher had discovered the software's Achilles' heel.
Lamar Odom ventured out Monday night to the Achilles heel of addicts -- an L.A. nightclub.
"It's an Achilles' heel for us to some degree," said Ted Tozer, Ginnie Mae's president.
In the seemingly interminable regular season, this lack of depth was the Thunder's Achilles' heel.
The fact he has the power to do so reflects the agreement's political Achilles' heel.
If Amazon has an Achilles heel in the race to $233 trillion, this is it.
Clinton's Achilles heel is well known: A majority of Americans neither like nor trust her.
The benefit is that negative advertising encapsulates the sometimes unexpressed Achilles' heel of one's opponent.
How much of her Achilles'-heel defensiveness is a byproduct of her marriage to Bill?
Arthur: Her Achilles' heel is contempt, which is perhaps the most self-defeating stereotype possible.
Inflation was Keynesianism's Achilles' heel, and the supply-siders aimed their arrow right at it.
She knows and is going to exploit his achilles heel: He'd do anything to protect Betty.
The fact that a circuit is plastic is both its beautiful strength and its Achilles' heel.
Coding schools' achilles heel is that despite 22,000 graduates there's still only 5 years of data.
That same vast assortment, however, can also be somewhat of an Achilles' heel for the site.
Sadly, the proliferation of foreign commodity imports is an economic Achilles' heel of our own making.
"The economy's Achilles' heel ... remains the lack of new investment," ING Bank economist Carsten Brzeski said.
Although this is reflective of the dynamism of China's economy, it's also the country's Achilles heel.
Countries and organizations that we view as our adversaries see these platforms as our Achilles' heel.
The Achilles' heel of today's transistors is the smaller they get, the more they leak electrons.
Clinton, said recently that of all Mr. Trump's vulnerabilities, women may end up his Achilles' heel.
And yet despite his "chosen one" position in rap Kendrick does indeed have an Achilles heel.
In a show so focused on family, it's appropriate that her Achilles' heel is her children.
But their Achilles' heel was their weak will to fight — and this shortcoming was never overcome.
He won his second Super Bowl MVP award and secured his legacy as Brady's Achilles' Heel.
But Thomas J. Spota, the district attorney in New York's Suffolk County, had an Achilles' heel.
That lack of empathy was, in the eyes of many longtime political observers, Trump's Achilles heel.
Katz suffered an injury to his achilles heel while he was training a few weeks ago.
The investment bank generates about half of Deutsche Bank's revenue but is also considered its Achilles heel.
Whether your Achilles' heel is UTIs or something entirely different, accepting it is a helpful first step.
"The Achilles heel of young people in particular is breaking their budget on going out," says Yarrow.
Just ask Lee Desrosiers of Brooklyn's Achilles Heel, who knows a thing or two about outdoor cooking.
Veteran Damien Wilkins started in place of Bojan Bogdanovic, who was out with an Achilles heel injury.
"The very mutations that cause cancer turn out to be its Achilles heel," Rosenberg told the BBC.
Blood rained down on the punters but there was no Achilles heel to be found or exposed.
But inflation, a holdover from the previous government's habit of printing money, has remained Argentina's Achilles heel.
Last month Levy said the hybrid debt is an "Achilles heel", making EDF's balance sheet more fragile.
" He also said that outside information, not US military threats, could be Kim Jong Un's "Achilles heel.
" He added: "The Achilles heel remains the size of the government as well as labor market flexibility.
For investors, GSK's fat dividend - currently yielding 5.7 percent - is both a lure and an Achilles heel.
"Immigration is their Achilles' heel; it's why [Republicans] will never be able to win elections," Bardella said.
The Clippers' main Achilles' heel over the past few years hasn't been Jordan, Paul, Griffin, or Redick.
"Electricity is the Achilles' heel for North Korea," said Lee Jong-heon, an energy analyst in Seoul.
" But, he added, the artwork revealed "a vulnerable place for Robin's character — it was his Achilles heel.
Watson's Achilles' heel during the regular season was the interception, but he threw none in this game.
But when it comes to restructuring the debt, this little detail could be an important Achilles' heel.
It's a lesson Democrats learned in 2016 when voter turnout ended up being a major Achilles' heel.
The actress's Achilles' heel just may lie in sports, according to her Big Little Lies costar Reese Witherspoon.
"I'll have an occasional glass of champagne, and I really have trouble resisting chocolate – definitely an Achilles' heel!"
Threat actors are acutely aware of this "Achilles' heel" of cloud computing and are salivating to exploit it.
However, its Achilles' heel of the devices is that they eventually stop working because their batteries aren't replaceable.
Musk took that call from the Gigafactory, the site of the Model 3's current production Achilles' heel.
Although probably unintentional, the success of this year's Material is also its Achilles' heel: chaos, color, and disorder.
I always found Achilles Heel had more in common with your debut, It's Hard to Find a Friend.
Ana Lúcia, a public affairs specialist in Rio de Janeiro, said that could be Mr. Barbosa's Achilles' heel.
"Charging is really the Achilles' heel of the battery electric," said Devin Lindsay, principal analyst at IHS Automotive.
"This film is about the Achilles' heel of capitalism," Mr. Jones says at the opening of the film.
Yet his back-to-the-future encounter with his sensational and melodramatic past might become his Achilles' heel.
That has been their Achilles heel, and they will have to deal with the Syracuse 2-3 zone.
And what really is the Achilles' heel of the Democratic brand is that we look elitist and judgmental.
That matters in an era when water threatens to be the Achilles' heel of US thermal power plants.
Depending on where you use it, the headset's reliance on the 2.4GHz band can be its Achilles' heel.
A bigger challenge looms on Friday as they confront their demons in the foursomes, their traditional Achilles heel.
The report also dissects what Blair characterizes as the US nuclear posture's "Achilles' heel" -- the system's communication network.
As confident as Maduro may appear right now on the political stage, his Achilles Heel remains the economy.
Apologies are Clinton's "Achilles heel," according to one adviser in a leaked email about the private server scandal.
Your Google, Microsoft, Apple, WhatsApp, and even Signal accounts all have an Achilles' heel — the same one, in fact.
The OnePlus 220T's Achilles' heel is its mediocre camera, and the Honor View 220 sidles up right alongside it.
Having casually slouched into its role as a restaurant, Achilles Heel won't be everyone's idea of a dinner destination.
Perhaps Bloodline's true Achilles heel isn't the show itself, but how its audience has grown accustomed to consuming it.
The camera is seen as the Essential Phone's weakest feature and the Achilles Heel of the bezel-less device.
Kenneth Kennedy, a senior policy adviser for ICE, has called the loophole "the Achilles heel" of the Tariff Act.
But in the age of human-caused climate change, Kennedy's exposure to the ocean has become its Achilles heel.
Yet it is his own relationship with one of the country's wealthiest tycoons that could prove an Achilles' heel.
This is his Achilles' heel … Participate in the ridicule and the satire for the emperor who has no clothes.
If the Internet has been Mr. Trump's secret weapon so far, it may soon turn into his Achilles' heel.
This alleged Achilles' heel is diminishing with smarter management of grids and improvements in energy storage capacity and competitiveness.
For being supposedly invincible death machines, the dragons seem to have a huge Achilles heel, namely flying sharp projectiles.
But such a move is risky and could be bin Salman's Achilles' heel: A conservative backlash would be bloody.
A more realistic depiction of swarms would take away their Achilles heel, requiring screenwriters to figure out new tricks.
"These sequences might be an Achilles heel present in many insect pests," Dr. Crisanti's team writes in their paper.
"I'd argue it's the Achilles heel for Apple, hence today's $1.96 decline on a really up day," he said.
But the elections proved that Likud has its own Achilles' heel: It is vulnerable to a never-Haredi campaign.
This is his Achilles heel; you are unlikely to change him, and you get to go home soon enough.
"The [investment bank] strategy remains the key strategic question mark and Achilles' heel of Deutsche," wrote analysts at UBS.
"If there is an Achilles' heel in one of our projects, we want to know it right now," Teller said.
In most return stats—the typical Achilles heel of a tall player—Mr Zverev barely ranks in the top half.
But, fashion's Achilles heel is that we've seem to stop just short of real reckoning beyond simple representation and charity.
Mr Corbyn's reply did nothing to allay his own moderate MPs' fears that foreign policy could be his Achilles heel.
Yet if Trump's Achilles' heel proves to be not his oafish policies but rather his churlish manner, so be it.
Still, the meal kit industry knows that packaging is an Achilles' heel, so companies continue to work to reduce it.
On Saturday, the President delivered his first moment of shock and awe with his Achilles' heel on foreign policy: Russia.
Jonathan Chait thinks he's found President Donald Trump's Achilles heel, and it's not the Russia investigation or Stormy Daniels revelations.
Now we know why the Death Star has an Achilles' heel and how that information fell into Princess Leia's hands.
Left untreated, this may be the Achilles' heel that topples the technology industry's supremacy as an entrepreneurial center of excellence.
"It's a true affirmation of the fact that we've found Putin's Achilles' heel with the Magnitsky Act," Mr. Browder said.
"Immigration is their Achilles' heel; it's why [Republicans] will never be able to win elections," Bardella told me in May.
Today the straits are China's Achilles' heel, a vulnerable choke point through which 80 percent of its oil imports flow.
Her Achilles heel has always been her failure to inspire the masses, and it unfortunately it showed during the election.
The book's satire is trained on the awfulness of affluent tech society, which turns out to be Bernadette's Achilles' heel.
Because I feel like his mother is his Achilles heel: the source of a lot of his issues with women.
"The focus might switch to yet another Achilles' heel for all browsers, which are extensions and third-party plugins," says Segura.
In an otherwise upbeat report on the country's prospects, the European Commission picks out Brexit-related risks as an Achilles heel.
The 20133 Mac Pro's Achilles' heel was graphics capabilities, which predicted a future in which dual-GPU structures would become common.
All of these either directly or indirectly alleviate the pain caused by the database Achilles' heel, without addressing the pain itself.
The Achilles heel of the entire venture from a sustainability perspective is its use of plastic, a non-renewable, petroleum product.
Of course, we all have our Achilles' heel, a theme type or a topic that brings us to a grinding halt.
Phillips deserves tremendous credit for concealing his unit's Achilles heel against one of the NFL's most suited teams to exploit it.
There's one major difference between FCEV and BEV vehicles, though, and that is the Achilles' heel of BEVs: lack of range.
This means that China has also become the Achilles heel of the German economy, with the port of Hamburg especially vulnerable.
The aim is to neutralize what's seen as an Achilles' heel for a potential national bid, turning wary activists into allies.
Winning the game isn't aesthetically pleasing; you didn't elegantly make the right choices to hit the AI in its Achilles heel.
President Trump's new Executive Order relating to so-called "sanctuary cities" exposes a potential Achilles heel facing the new administration. Sec.
If that's all he has to say in response, then Iraq will continue to be an Achilles' heel of his candidacy.
In both the books and the movies, Divergent borrows heavily, and poorly, from other YA franchises, and this is its Achilles' heel.
The thing about this smoked turkey breast is that it defeats the Achilles' heel of pretty much every turkey every cooked: blandness.
"What I wonder is whether Apple's end-to-end process almost ended up as sort of an Achilles' heel here," Poole speculates.
"Transportation is the Achilles heel of the Yucca Mountain repository site," said Bob Halstead, the head of Nevada's agency for nuclear projects.
Civilian deaths have been an Achilles' heel for US forces in the Afghanistan War, a Congressional Research Service report noted last year.
They're the questions that religion used to answer and that science used to try and answer, and it is tech's Achilles heel.
Always find the Achilles heel of your larger competitors (usually in speed or innovation) and exploit it relentlessly to create an edge.
Price competition was an Achilles' heel for retailers over the holiday, as steep promotions contributed to the industry's slower-than-expected growth.
The protein's head mutates often, but its stem usually stays the same across strains—making it a promising Achilles' heel for antibodies.
In past fights, The Monsoon's Achilles heel has typically reared its ugly head when he has been taken down to the mat.
Cleveland's Achilles' heel, its bullpen, improved in the second half, but the Astros still hold the edge there, and most everywhere else.
Legendary announcer Marv Albert may be in his 50th year of calling NBA games, but even the greats have an Achilles heel.
And women who misbehave are very much Trump's emotional Achilles heel -- so we should all keep at it in ways large and small.
Mouzalas acknowledged that slow processing of asylum requests was an "Achilles heel" but said Athens was hiring more staff to speed it up.
"She understood that corruption was the 'Achilles heel,' so to speak, of Ukraine," a former State Department official who knows Yovanovitch told CNN.
When your robot's basically just a weapon on wheels, a breakdown in the weapon motor reveals a bit of a massive Achilles heel.
Greece was the Achilles heel of Europe, being the last country still under economic help in the wake of the sovereign debt crisis.
This is the Macan's Achilles' heel: it can go like hell — but the car is set up to embrace not going like hell.
"I think Craig is right that the valuations are really the Achilles' heel for Walmart," she said in the same "Trading Nation" interview.
Gaps which, if left unaltered, will be the Achilles' heel of a mental health system that everyday American families cannot afford or access.
"And there too, lies the real Achilles Heel of Amazon: the clout Walmart still has over its suppliers," the "Mad Money" host said.
"In general, the Achilles' heel of social insurance programs is once you get everyone in on the same boat, you get problems," Kotlikoff said.
Rebounding and rim protection may be an Achilles' heel, but L.A.'s front office has the time and resources to figure out a solution.
At the beginning of the second debate, Anderson Cooper brought up Trump's "grab them by the pussy" comment, which has become Trump's Achilles heel.
Twitter Q4 beats on sales of $909M and EPS of $0.33, but MAUs slump to just 321M Twitter's Achilles' heel remains user growth. 5.
They pushed the top seeded Boston Celtics to a seventh game, where their bench, an Achilles heel all year long, turned into a puddle.
Upper level winds steer these weather systems, and that may prove to be Texas' Achilles heel when it comes to flood vulnerability from Harvey.
But Trump is missing an opportunity to use the gathering to strike at Tehran's Achilles heel — its violations of the Iranian people's human rights.
While orders for the truck are already piling up, Davitt cautions that the semi's battery could actually be another Achilles' heel for the automaker.
This turned out to be the Achilles' heel of Bush's 2001 strategy: His tax cuts had to "sunset" in order to make reconciliation work.
But as the season grinds on, it is becoming clear that if the 2018 Yankees have an Achilles' heel, it is their starting pitching.
Inflation has been the central bank's Achilles heel as price growth remains stubbornly weak even as the wider economy is now on firmer footing.
As a result, Sanders' relatively thin record of accomplishments in the House and Senate could be a legitimate Achilles heel later in the year.
Despite it's improvements, software continues to be Samsung's Achilles' heel, and perhaps it will once again embrace Google's cleaner design for hardcore smartphone fans.
The economy's Achilles' heel — unemployment — would plummet to 14 percent by 2019 from a peak of close to 26 percent in 2013, it said.
Russia's Achilles heel is its "low productivity, weak innovation, and lack of attractive sectors that could attract the investment required for expansion," Bush said.
She says he's smart and engaging, but has "a tendency to view any criticism as personal, and I think that could be his Achilles' heel."
Hillary Clinton's support from financial institutions has always been her Achilles heel but running counter to this criticism is her pledge to end systemic racism.
This is the central problem identified by the film-makers: the Achilles heel of capitalism is humans' ability to forget the crises of the past.
"We've had the highest rate of offensive efficiency, but our defense and our turnovers have been kind of our Achilles' heel so far," Curry said.
The military is steeped in tradition, and that is something we all revere about this great institution, but it can also be an Achilles' heel.
The Coyotes capitalized on Los Angeles' quirky Achilles' heel and hung a mock version of the banner when the Kings came to visit Monday night.
The Achilles' heel for investors in retirement is a punishing stock market downturn that reduces not only their income stream but also their total wealth.
And at his Achilles Heel in Greenpoint, Desiree Tuttle, who was the pastry chef at Reynard in the Wythe Hotel, is now the executive chef.
"The Achilles heel of the Paris Agreement is that it's built on consensus," said Johan Rockstrom, director of the Stockholm Resilience Center at Stockholm University.
Indeed, protesters' use of cyber proved to be the regime's Achilles heel: It could not, despite a show of force, stop the expansion of demonstrations.
"Mysterio's" misguided attempts at political commentary reveal Moffat's Achilles' heel — he doesn't seem that interested in life on the ground, compared to life amid the stars.
She made effort after effort to try and ensure that the OTC market would never be an Achilles' heel of our nation's financial system, but lost.
Many top-funded startups appear to be tackling what's long been the Achilles heel of the pizza-industrial complex: The inverse correlation between convenience and quality.
Then, they head off to Franny's for pizza and some small plates, and end the night at Achilles Heel in Greenpoint with lamb's head and steak.
Kasich's Achilles heel Kasich's single biggest weakness with Republican primary voters has long been his decision to expand Medicaid in Ohio under Obama's health care law.
"Her Achilles' heel has been this perception of playing fast and loose with the rules [and] being untrustworthy," he said in a WWD interview published Thursday.
The defense, long Barcelona's Achilles' heel, has perhaps tightened up, but the club now looks less jubilant, less able to ignore its weakness at the rear.
"The slump in exports remains the true Achilles' heel...with headwinds coming from all directions," said Joe Hayes, economist at IHS Markit, on South Korea's PMI.
She also treats it, digging into Chinese food after a win and admitting to frequently indulging in Chick-fil-A (my own fast-food Achilles' heel).
The Achilles' heel of a Brexit deal is the border between Ireland, a member of the European Union, and Northern Ireland, part of the United Kingdom.
Now privacy-focused researchers, including teams at the Rochester Institute of Technology and Duke University, are exploring whether that Achilles' heel could also protect your information.
For many Warren admirers who attended her Iowa rallies last weekend, no polls are needed for confirmation: They believe health care has been her Achilles' heel.
We always had the idea that the behind-the-scenes character would find Elizabeth Keane's Achilles' heel, which was the memory and love of her son.
"Saturday's incidents exposed an Achilles Heel in the ability to defend a very important segment of oil infrastructure," Samir Madani, co-founder of data firm Tankertrackers.
Jean-Jacques' lungs, like his father's, were his Achilles' heel, so he had purposely chosen a place up in the mountains, where the air was fresher.
Every part of the bird, from Achilles' heel to soft knee bone to neck, is used, each one butchered, skewered and seasoned in a specific way.
During a European soccer tournament in the summer of 2016, Russians attacked English fans — cutting one person's Achilles' heel and lodging glass into another person's neck.
And I think that was her Achilles' heel: her unwillingness to realize that some of what goes on in a courtroom is a bit of a show.
If I were to zero in on Trump's Achilles' heel, it would be that he needs our love, and especially needs our love if we're famous people.
The Achilles' heel of the device was its paltry battery life, which negated most of the promises of a device that promised to augment your daily listening.
SPIELBERG, Austria (Reuters) - Mercedes showed their Achilles heel in the Austrian heat on Sunday, with the Formula One champions suffering defeat for the first time this season.
The Feynman trap—ransacking data for patterns without any preconceived idea of what one is looking for—is the Achilles heel of studies based on data mining.
The Turkish financial crisis set off a wave of selling across emerging markets, reviving the spectre of contagion that has been the sector's Achilles heel for decades.
She said the new study appeared to have identified what "could be sort of the Achilles' heel" in the placenta that allows the virus into the womb.
Our country is sleepwalking into the same level of dependence on imported minerals that there once was for oil — which became an Achilles' heel for energy security.
When iron met iron at Lincoln Financial Field on Sunday, the Falcons' Achilles heel became apparent: They're built to play with a lead, not play catch-up.
But that aggressiveness can also be the system's Achilles' heel, because it can compel opponents — especially weaker ones — to bunker defensively, surrendering possession in favor of security.
The German economy, Europe's largest, contracted on weaker exports in the second quarter, highlighting its Achilles heel due to escalating global trade disputes and waning foreign demand.
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While the counter hooks work wonderfully when Moicano can get opponents reaching for his head, his Achilles heel in the Ortega fight turned out to be his body.
Orozco, 23, re-tore his Achilles heel in June of last year and lost his mother, greatly complicating his road to the Olympic trials in St. Louis, Missouri.
However, the jobs surge could reflect nervousness among employers about Brexit and risks aggravating Britain's long-standing productivity problem, the Achilles heel of the world's fifth-biggest economy.
Hamlin was penalized for speeding on pit road — something that's been the Joe Gibbs Racing driver's Achilles heel — and was forced to give up the valuable track position.
The whole point of Libra, after all, is that it's not a local currency, but a global currency, which is both its competitive advantage and its Achilles heel.
"Tesla is great at design and great at technology and marketing, but production has kind of been their Achilles' heel," said Jessica Caldwell, a senior analyst at Edmunds.com.
On each of these front lines, China constantly searches for America's Achilles' heel — the vulnerabilities through which China can undermine U.S. power and position on the world stage.
While the jobless rate has drifted down to 5.6 percent in 2016, the dearth of new full-time jobs was seen as an Achilles heel for the economy.
In other words, Rosenberg is saying energy-company debt could be the market's Achilles' heel, and chaos in the oil market is a point aimed directly at it.
Everyone in the show had some kind of personal Achilles' heel — for Eleanor it was selfishness, for Chidi it was indecision and for Tahani it was glory-seeking.
Accidents related to faulty blades - described as the Achilles' heel of turbine manufacturing - have hit several equipment makers in the past, making a seamless production process absolutely vital.
Who she was in her identity made her more authoritative, and many people looked around and thought, you know, race has been for many Democrats an Achilles' heel.
Yes, he may have had the look of a Greek hero, straight out of central casting for 300, but Namman Muay boxing liniment was the boss man's Achilles Heel.
As he all but confirmed earlier this year, Phoenix, his first album as Pedro The Lion since 2004's Achilles Heel, will be out via Polyvinyl on January 18.
And finally, what if we could also eliminate the easy-to-guess "account reset questions" that are the Achilles' heel of many systems that try to help manage passwords?
"This is the Achilles heel," he said in an interview in Brussels, where he is on an official visit to try and persuade European leaders to change their position.
The company, known for its small Bluetooth trackers that you attach to things like keychains, has fixed the Achilles' heel of the two products without significantly changing their design.
PRODUCTIVITY PROBLEM Tuesday's ONS data showed a downside of the continued strong job creation in the form of a latest fall in productivity, the Achilles' heel of Britain's economy.
Last week, budget forecasters cut the country's growth estimates for the next five years, largely because of reduced projections for productivity, the Achilles' heel of the economy for generations.
Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer called the state and local tax deduction the "Achilles' heel" of tax reform and said Democrats would oppose any move to take it away.
And while integrity was advertised as Clinton's Achilles heel, and only 2628 percent thought she was honest and trustworthy, even fewer (28503 percent) had the same view of Trump.
Clinton seeks the White House, the funding of the sprawling philanthropy has become an Achilles' heel for her campaign and, if she is victorious, potentially her administration as well.
But when uninfected people wear hot, sweaty masks out in public, they will be more prone to touching their faces, which is also the Achilles' heel of rubber gloves.
But the show's willingness to play around with time and structure is also its Achilles' heel for as long as it keeps obfuscating essential facts about the characters' backstories.
That has been Alabama's Achilles' heel all season, and big plays are what helped Ole Miss beat the Crimson Tide to hand them their only loss of the year.
The track titles alone make Greta Van Fleet's Achilles' heel painfully clear: They are too unqualified to address these themes comprehensively yet not self-aware enough to realize it.
Over the past two decades, I realized we have a crucial Achilles heel: Our brains are wired to be tribal and to think only in the seasonal short term.
The group said its helicopter unit, its Achilles heel in recent years, was recovering in line with the company's plan and that deliveries this year would exceed last year.
" Mr. Krasilovsky said he met potential clients to offer a risk assessment based on what they were protecting and other factors, looking for what he called "an Achilles' heel.
Portrait mode overall has had a nice improvement in edge detection, doing a better job with fine hair, glasses and complicated background patterns — normally a portrait mode Achilles' heel.
In The Know-It-Alls, former New York Times columnist Noam Cohen identifies this trait as both a connecting thread and an Achilles heel for the titans of Silicon Valley.
Sluggers who had been failing to come through in key moments are producing timely hits and a bullpen that had been an Achilles heel has started to settle into place.
Though today Amazon Alexa devices have the most market share in the U.S., Google may have found Amazon's Achilles heel by targeting language support to grow its own install base.
Its proponents say it's superior to traditional antivirus since it can catch new variants and never-before-seen malware—think zero-day exploits—that are the Achilles heel of antivirus.
Ineffective regulation may prove to be an "Achilles' heel" for the RIN market even though fraud has not been rampant, said Scott Irwin, an economist with the University of Illinois.
The company's aggressive, win-at-all-costs culture may have contributed to its early successes, but it's become more of an Achilles heel as the company has grown and matured.
For their part, conservatives have long treated the individual mandate as Obamacare's Achilles heel—a weak point that could bring down the entire health care law with one clean hit.
Depending on who you ask, her relationship with African-American voters will either be the differentiator that puts her over the top or the Achilles heel that holds her back.
And there was bad news regarding the Achilles heel of the British economy - the long-standing weak record of its companies and workers to squeeze more output from their work.
Foreign adversaries may aptly consider nuclear EMP attack a weapon that can gravely damage the U.S. by striking at its technological Achilles' Heel, without having to confront the U.S. military.
The fact that it chose to integrate the old elites instead of persecuting them has turned out to be, at once, the revolution's lasting achievement and its ultimate Achilles' heel.
When Andrew (Jon Tenney), the former Vice President, was ready to get out from under the shadows of President Fitzgerald Grant (Tony Goldwyn), he went for his Achilles heel — Olivia.
In recent years, a tight labor market, a shift to high-tech manufacturing and an aging factory work force have created what Deloitte describes as the manufacturing sector's Achilles' heel.
"I think the Turks will eventually back down... the Turks ultimately know their Achilles' heel is the economy," said Timothy Ash, senior emerging markets sovereign strategist at Bluebay Asset Management.
"Ethical governance has long been the Achilles' heel of China's scientific endeavour," says Lei Ruipeng, executive director of the Centre for Bioethics at Huazhong University of Science and Technology, in Wuhan.
I think this songwriting on Achilles Heel is maybe my best songwriting or the songwriting that has yielded the most songs that I continue to want to play over the years.
But their big Achilles' heel, in my experience, was a poor fit that never kept them in my ears satisfactorily and thus left me with a poor impression of their sound.
Humanity breathed a collective sigh of relief today as the robot army amassing to subjugate us under its shiny metal grip revealed an all-too-familiar Achilles heel: Crippling existential dread.
Scientists now wonder if metabolism could prove to be the long-sought "Achilles' heel" of cancer, a common weak point in a disease that manifests itself in so many different forms.
I'm together in a lot of ways but partnering up with another individual and being able to share a living space and work through whatever comes up — it's my Achilles' heel.
The Coyotes capitalized on Los Angeles' quirky Achilles' heel and hung a mock version of the banner when the Kings came to visit Monday night, but Los Angeles immediately clapped back.
Twitter has never pumped up a product release the way it did with Moments, and as a result it shouldered Moments with fixing the company's longstanding Achilles' heel — stagnant user growth.
But whatever you do, don't even think about making a tomato or wine-based sauce in one of those things: highly acidic food is a cast iron pan's sole Achilles' heel.
While post-debate flash polls indicated positive results for Clinton on trustworthiness with regard to nuclear weapons, trustworthiness remained Clinton's main Achilles heel on compelling issues like racial and gender equality.
Then, the independent fiscal forecasting agency, the Office for Budget Responsibility, cut its growth forecasts sharply and turned pessimistic on the outlook for productivity, long the Achilles' heel of Britain's economy.
But through the first seven games of the season, after a 5-2 loss to the Orioles on Thursday, the bullpen has been more of an Achilles' heel than a strength.
However, they played majestically for two-and-a-half days, ambushing the Americans 4-1 in the Thursday fourballs and sharing the points in the Friday foursomes, their traditional Achilles heel.
Your Achilles heel is your emotions—you're a very sensitive person and you let your feelings get the best of you, which is not necessarily a bad thing, just takes more work.
But even though the Warsaw native was a heavy favorite following victories over Nathan Cleverly and Julio Cesar Chavez Jr., Smith's father had already concocted a fight strategy around Fonfara's Achilles' heel.
In Lambert's film, Miko Hughes (who was less than 2 years old during filming) is a blond cherub, no less adorable when he's holding a scalpel and slicing through Jud's Achilles heel.
Andrew Tarlow, who restored Achilles Heel decades after the dockworkers who used to drink there heard the final last call, had the spot retrofitted last summer, in its third year of operation.
And when she's feeling angry about his ridicule and spits acid right back at him, he verbally abuses her, calling her talentless and "fucking ugly," gutting her right in her Achilles heel.
"The key point remains that investment is no longer the Achilles' heel of the economy as firms are starting to flex their spending muscles," said Paul Dales, chief economist at Capital Economics.
Kilduff, a longtime skeptic of OPEC's ability to deliver output cuts, has warned throughout the year that slowing economic growth in China and elsewhere in Asia is the oil market's Achilles' heel.
Surge pricing has long been Uber's Achilles' heel: during periods of excessive demand, when there are more riders than drivers, Uber increases its normal prices to encourage drivers to flood the zone.
HONG KONG — Samsung performed better than expected at the beginning of what it has said will be a tough year, thanks to a product that recently has been its Achilles' heel: smartphones.
The Marlow mini-empire eventually included Roman's and Reynard, in the Wythe Hotel, plus a butcher shop–grocery store, Marlow & Daughters; a bar, Achilles Heel; and a wholesale bakery called She Wolf.
Berkeley-based startup Semantic Machines might suffer the same Achilles' heel, but its team of 18 artificial intelligence PhDs thinks it can get farther than the current state-of-the-art establishment.
Last year, David Daleiden, the man behind the anti-Planned Parenthood "sting" videos, appeared at a conference for conservative legislators and said that fetal tissue disposal practices were abortion providers' Achilles' heel.
The economy contracted by 0.13% on weaker exports in the second quarter, data showed on Tuesday, highlighting Germany's Achilles' heel in times of weaker foreign demand, escalating trade disputes and Brexit uncertainty.
On the other hand, even though the employment index rose to 50.5 from 50.1, the labor market remains an "Achilles heel" for the prospects of a sustainable economic recovery, de Lima said.
Without directly attacking Mr. Putin, whose public approval rating remains high, Mr. Navalny has focused on corruption, which is endemic in Russia, and some believe it could be Mr. Putin's Achilles' heel.
But as Russia is becoming something of an Achilles heel for Trump -- and as the Kremlin has upped its military posturing -- he has been under increasing pressure to harden his stance on Russia.
"This is my hobby horse, but the Achilles heel of the whole carbon-tracking endeavor has been an underinvestment in calibrated measurements," says Pieter Tans, director of NOAA's Carbon Cycle Greenhouse Gases Group.
His Achilles' heel is a short fuse, but he proved he can maintain his cool in Northern Ireland when a rules issue stemming from a ball-marking dispute did not stop his momentum.
Pierce: I wouldn't acknowledge that it has an Achilles heel, but I think there are legitimate questions about how far NATO should move into relatively new areas of cyber counterterrorism, possibly even space.
The division generates about half of Deutsche Bank's revenue but is also considered its Achilles heel, with European regulators fearful that it will fail the next round of stress tests in the United States.
The show's Achilles' heel appears to be major character deaths, and with the exit of Rick Grimes just two weeks away, The Walking Dead is in danger of reverting back to its worst tendencies.
It's similar to how pharmaceutical companies mine human DNA for clues to curing disease, only in this case, they're hunting for a sort of Achilles' heel that would kill the animal if tinkered with.
It is a final irony that the FBI has inadvertently exposed the U.S. tech industry's Achilles' heel — and threatens to make our devices even more vulnerable to those who wish to do us harm.
Walks were always Ryan's Achilles' heel: up to this point in his career, he had only recorded three no-walk games, and he ultimately retired with a lifetime average of 4.67 per nine innings.
"Politically speaking, this is the Achilles' heel of the administration," said Representative Jamie Raskin of Maryland, a Democrat who sits on two of the key investigative panels, referring to the Trump family's business dealings.
But the country's reliance on this constellation of fragile, multimillion-dollar flying computers may also be an Achilles heel, presenting potential enemies with targets that are hard to defend and nearly impossible to repair.
The investment bank generates about half of Deutsche Bank's revenue but is also considered its Achilles heel, with European regulators fearful that it will fail the next round of stress tests in the United States.
Of the many ways the New York City subway unravels on a near daily basis, it has one Achilles' heel that remains an impediment to any significant turnaround — the balky signals that control the trains.
Whether it's with heavy, politically-minded concept albums like 2002's Control or dynamic but less narrative-focused efforts like 2004's Achilles Heel, Bazan's relentless search for truth with Pedro the Lion still resonates.
He goes in search for his backstory and we open him up and you see what makes him tick and what is his Achilles heel, the thing he may have that has power over him.
Achilles Heel: Andrew Tarlow's Greenpoint boozer would have made the area's dock workers of yesteryear proud with its seasonally-driven, delicious food from chef Lee Desrosiers, who knows a thing or two about outdoor cooking.
Op-Ed Contributor TOKYO — Pyongyang's recent missile launch over Hokkaido and its underground nuclear test have laid bare Japan's Achilles' heel: Our country's national security policy is still woefully ill equipped for this mounting danger.
The real Achilles' heel of the eurozone to which the IMF report points is the very divergent long–run labor productivity performance between Germany, the eurozone's largest economy, and Italy, the eurozone's third-largest economy.
If you picked "nighttime photos," we agree: While smartphone cameras have improved by orders of magnitude in the last decade, due to the constraints of their tiny lenses, low light conditions are still their Achilles' heel.
Restaurant Review 21 Photos View Slide Show ' In its more peaceful hours, Achilles Heel, a revived waterfront bar with a painted stone facade in the Greenpoint section of Brooklyn, reminds me of McSorley's Old Ale House.
Because we all know that the Achilles Heel for every third-party candidate from Ross Perot to Ralph Nader is the fact that almost every voter knows they simply don't have any realistic chance to win.
Behind Achilles Heel is a grill and fire pit that allows him to think outside the box when it comes to making simple, flavorful food that get its heat—literally and figuratively—from a mini inferno.
" Handelsbanken analyst Hampus Engellau said: "The cycle is slowing coming into next year, and therefore I think this is important ... to avoid ending up in an underproduction, which has been the Achilles' heel historically for Volvo.
Without a doubt, the most effective measure targeting the mullahs' Achilles Heel is found in the West adopting a firm policy against Tehran aimed at stopping Iran's nuclear program and destructive meddling in the Middle East.
"Convenience has an Achilles' heel," said Dr. Ateev Mehrotra, the study's senior author, who is an associate professor of health policy at Harvard Medical School and a researcher at the RAND Corporation, a nonprofit research group.
Mobile advertising, once thought to be Facebook's Achilles heel, now accounts for a staggering 80% of the company's overall advertising revenue — up from effectively nothing at the time of Facebook's much-watched public offering in 2012.
Trump and House Republicans have concocted a campaign-like strategy, devoid of relevant facts, to protect Trump's achilles heel — his and his staffs' apparent collusion with the Russians and then his own apparent obstruction of justice.
Going into it, Bonaly knew she was not a medal contender—both because of her ranking at the time and because of an Achilles heel injury, which would prevent her from landing her more difficult jumps.
As a result, we may soon have as many rapid chargers as gas stations along U.S. highways, breaking through the "range anxiety" – or the fear of running out of power – that's the Achilles heel of electric vehicles.
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The dispute between Ankara and Brussels over Turkey's anti-terror law has become the "Achilles heel" of the landmark deal designed to stop illegal migration into Europe, Turkey's minister for EU affairs said on Friday.
It's a dog that didn't bark: a moment where it initially looked like Sanders was going to hammer Clinton on her Achilles heel — personal, professional, and financial ties to Wall Street — but ended up retreating into generalities.
Instead of moving on from the "Achilles' heel" of Russian election interference, aides and people close to Trump predict he will continue stewing over the investigation as he works to convince his voters he was unfairly targeted.
"For the bond investor, it is proper to use the word 'ugly' when describing inflation because that's the real Achilles Heel for the bond market," wrote Kevin Giddis, head of fixed income capital markets at Raymond James.
Trump's Achilles heel may well be found in the pre-campaign operation of the complex and varied transactions of his business empire rather than in an explicit conspiracy with the Russians to tamper with the American election.
"On Day One as president, I will bring down cost of prescription drugs, like insulin and epi-pens," Warren said of her controversial, newly released health plan, the policy area that's proven to be her Achilles heel.
What's so interesting about the CNN poll is that it not only shows why Biden is clearly a top-tier candidate if he runs for president but it also reveals his potential Achilles' heel in that race.
The German government says it can double its number of intensive care beds, and even produce more ventilators but a medical staffing crunch is shaping up as the Achilles heel of its strategy to fight the coronavirus.
The German government says it can double its number of intensive care beds, and even produce more ventilators but a medical staffing crunch is shaping up as the Achilles heel of its strategy to fight the coronavirus.
Another former colleague highlighted Parente's work prior to Petrobras, as CEO of Bunge Ltd from 2010 to 2014, giving him a background in the grains trade, which proved to be an Achilles heel for BRF last year.
According to one former top aide, Trump viewed the fact that Russia had worked to help elect him, even without his cooperation, as his "Achilles heel" because it could be used by critics to delegitimize his unexpected victory.
BEIJING (Reuters) - A lack of innovation is China's "Achilles heel", President Xi Jinping warned in an article given high prominence by state media on Thursday, where he also bemoaned the economy for being big yet without being strong.
Achilles Heel was a response to that in the sense that where it would have been really natural to go further in that reaction, I just wanted to turn around and see something more organic and less pretentious.
Diamond Offshore loses up to half a million dollars of revenue each day a rig is down, while the customer - an oil and gas producer - also loses as much money, Edwards said, calling downtime the industry's "Achilles' heel".
It's co-orbital anti-satellite capabilities, it's jamming, it's dazzling, it's spoofing, it's hacking — all of these threats are proliferating at a pace we have never seen before, and the Chinese are calling space the American Achilles' heel.
And indeed, labor and the efforts at reform by France's 40-year-old French President, Emmanuel Macron -- now approaching an end to his first year of an otherwise all-but-Teflon presidency -- could be his one Achilles heel.
The US could "touch the Achilles Heel of Kim Jong Un" by tapping into the societal shift within the North Korean population with a targeted information campaign that disseminates basic concepts of freedom and human rights, according to Thae.
" From Nicholas Colas, co-founder of DataTrek Research: " Assuming volatility-related ETFs really are a market structure "Achilles heel", this will take days if not weeks to play out, and there could be other problems waiting in the wings.
After a gathering of more than 20,000 workers at its Wolfsburg plant on Wednesday, VW's management and works council issued a statement saying they were preparing the core VW brand - its Achilles' heel in recent years - for the future.
A decline in foreign transactions and a drop in foreign currency inflows could further widen Pakistan's large current account deficit, the Achilles heel of an economy that required an IMF bailout in 2013 following a balance of payments crisis.
Wage growth has been the labor market's Achilles heel and last month's increase fit in with economists' expectations that inflation will continue to bounce around the Fed's 2 percent target for the remainder of this year and into early 2019.
"The Argentine government tends to borrow in foreign currency either domestically or abroad, so that reliance on foreign currency borrowing is the Achilles heel of the sovereign credit here," James McCormack, Fitch's head of sovereign ratings, told Reuters in Buenos Aires.
It seems that a scientist (Mads Mikkelsen) was blackmailed into designing the Death Star, but he deliberately built in an Achilles heel, and then smuggled out a message about this structural flaw to his long-lost daughter, Jyn Erso (Felicity Jones).
The player's metagame of curving their deck design toward particular ideas impacts the smaller game, the one about this character who knows several ways of striking at weakness, and yet both of these kinds of knowledges share the same Achilles heel.
He asks how long the beleaguered nuclear-power industry can survive—hobbled as it is by the association with nuclear weapons ("the Achilles' heel of civil nuclear power"), a litany of disasters and the doomsday hyperbole of anti-nuclear activists.
A new study from a team of scientists at the Konkoly Observatory in Budapest, Hungary has revealed what could be the Achilles' heel for the TRAPPIST-1 exoplanets: solar flares from the host star causing chaos in the planetary atmospheres.
ACHILLES HEEL Other measures under consideration include a reduction in the size of the bank's nine-member management board, as well as the creation of a so-called bad bank to hold tens of billions of euros of non-core assets.
" Syria is the country that many Iranian leaders themselves view as their Achilles' heel — as an official close to Iran's Supreme Leader said in 6900, "if we lose Syria, we will not be able to preserve [the Iranian capital] Tehran.
Alternatively, you can make like the kids out at Achilles Heel in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, who Oliver Strand wrote about this week: They smoke chickens, braise them in chicken fat, then finish them over the grill for a Sunday-night supper.
In that statement, TI published a list of "five achievable things the Prime Minister could do before the Summit to defuse criticism and show he is serious", which included addressing the "Achilles Heel" in his anti-corruption plans – the overseas territories.
But she misses an important point in between the two that has recently been an Achilles' heel for Democrats in courting this group: connecting on an emotional level, which more often than not makes the real difference in garnering their support.
"Given the steady global face of terror attacks — last year 21 countries saw suicide bombings — and the anti-American sentiment that goes with much of that, the Trump logo might well be seen as the president-elect's Achilles heel," Overton said.
Such regression is "the Achilles' heel of a lot of health research," said Amitabh Chandra, a health economist at Harvard University, who said most studies were based on observing patients and seeing how they did before and after an intervention.
A medal-less performance at the 63 London Olympics and months of grueling rehab for a torn Achilles heel haven't deterred the 23-year-old from chasing gold in Rio – he's working harder than ever in preparation for the Games this summer.
If there has been an Achilles' heel with Trump's political organization, it's been that until the recent additions of folks like Paul Manafort, Trump's campaign has been more akin to a series of surreal tent revivals than an actual, well, political organization.
For all their appeal, traditional fantasy sports always had one Achilles' heel: because players build their teams at the start of a season, most participants lose interest just a few weeks in, once it becomes clear that they cannot contend for a title.
It will be fascinating to see just how quickly up to speed the operation can get when there is finally some time pressure to deliver – as even the team management has said that its Achilles Heel early on may well be operational matters.
Snapchat's ephemerality is its greatest strength, but also its Achilles heel: Without user-generated content (UGC) that persists, the app lacks the intrinsic inertia that keeps users engaged with products like Facebook, even if they are less than satisfied with the user experience.
After studying American politics, the Russian in my book concludes that the Achilles' heel of American democracy is its crumbling political infrastructure, and gambles that taking advantage of certain weaknesses is the best way to change the government and accomplish his agenda.
MUMBAI (Reuters) - Leaking late goals has been something of an Achilles' heel for the Indian hockey team but captain Sardar Singh believes his team have addressed the issue as they head to Rio looking for the country's first Olympic medal in 36 years.
Yael Selfin, an economist with KPMG, said a fall in investment in information technology and other machinery and equipment did not bode well for a recovery in productivity, the Achilles heel of Britain's economy and the biggest factor behind Wednesday's grim growth outlook.
While Trudeau's popularity remains sky-high 10 months after being elected to a shock majority government, his inexperienced cabinet - much touted for its gender equality and racial diversity - may be his Achilles heel, under scrutiny for questionable expense claims and charges of entitlement.
If there is one thing that's held me back in life, I want to suggest to Arty, if I have an Achilles' heel, if I have a chink in my armor, it's this inability to hold on to names and even, increasingly, faces.
This disconnect between the public's perception of Mr. Trump as a self-made mogul and the reality of his being a rich kid who lost other people's money and made far less for himself than he claims is still his Achilles' heel.
"Foreign policy has always been Trump's Achilles' heel with Senate Republicans," said Alex Conant, a Republican strategist and former staff adviser to Senator Marco Rubio of Florida, another Republican who faulted the president's Syria decision — but not his comments about China and Ukraine.
Jesse Gonzalez recorded the shutout in goal for FCD (235.9-0-1) and had to make just one save thanks to a swarming defense and the absence due to injuries of Los Angeles attackers Zlatan Ibrahimovic (Achilles heel) and Romain Alessandrini (hamstring).
You see, if a hiring manager suspects you're overqualified, he will immediately start considering some (or all) of the following: Your resume can either be the most important weapon you have against the dreaded O-word, or the Achilles Heel that defeats you.
" David Wade, who served as a senior adviser to John KerryJohn Forbes KerryA lesson of the Trump, Tlaib, Omar, Netanyahu affair Trump's winning weapon: Time The Memo: O'Rourke looks to hit reset button MORE, likewise said that O'Rourke's voting record wouldn't be an "Achilles' heel.
Formula One MONZA, Italy — After several months of nearly perfect driving, Lewis Hamilton found his Achilles' heel again at the Italian Grand Prix on Sunday by making a mess of his race start and dropping from pole position to fifth by the first corner.
"I think we are going to get an opportunity to depose Michael Cohen and the president within the next 60 to 90 days and ... I truly believe this is the Achilles' heel of the president," Avenatti said about the president and his personal lawyer.
Ms. Klobuchar, whose expectations are high in Iowa despite consistently ranking behind the top tier in polls, hit Mr. Buttigieg on his key Achilles' heel, his experience, playing directly to Iowans' concerns that the two-term mayor is too green to hold America's top job.
The self-ignited controversies in the first five days of his presidency -- including one about the size of his inaugural crowds -- also hints at a deeper and consuming need to be demonstrated as legitimate that has driven Trump for decades and has sometimes been an Achilles heel.
Phoenix, the first LP under the Pedro The Lion moniker since Achilles Heel way back in 2004, is out via Polyvinyl on January 18, and, if you didn't already figure it out after listening to lead single "Yellow Bike," it is a subtle, thoughtful, magnificent thing.
One DeSantis adviser told BuzzFeed News that it became evident that Gillum saw race as the Republican's Achilles heel, and that it would have been political malpractice for him not to use it as offense when it was clear that the attacks were getting under DeSantis' skin.
Italy's banking sector is largely viewed as the Achilles heel of the Eurozone's third largest economy and shares of troubled Italian lenders Unicredit, Banco Popolare and Banca Pop Milano were all deep in negative territory Monday morning making up the bottom three of the Stoxx 600.
Clinton campaign says it raised $68M in June The events of the last week also reminded voters of the Clintons' apparent Achilles heel -- a tendency to steer into self-inflicted political squalls that blow up just at the moment they seem to be heading into clear political waters.
While Google certainly seems to have the current edge in the market after substantial investments in machine learning systems over the past couple of years, the tech giant may yet have a potential Achilles' heel in owning an important segment of the global market — lack of access to China.
The Syrian civil war demonstrated all too clearly that this is Europe's Achilles heel, with anti-migrant protests in EU nations leading to governments adopting measures like stricter border control policies or striking a controversial deal with Turkey in March 2016 to halt the influx of those seeking refuge.
Instead of the "total exoneration" Trump had proclaimed earlier, the report portrayed the President as deceitful and paranoid, encouraging his aides to withhold the truth and cross ethical lines in an attempt to thwart a probe into Russia's interference in US elections -- his "Achilles heel," according to one forthcoming adviser.
Even more ominous as federal prosecutors empanel a grand jury in the Southern District of New York, the President's true Achilles' heel may turn out to be not collusion with the Russians but perjury by those, including family members, who may have lied to protect him or the Trump Organization.
But "the real Achilles Heel," at least in terms of serving customers, will be felt when it comes to repairs, both in GM dealer service departments and at independent garages and repair shops, said the general manager of one of GM's largest Detroit dealers, asking not to be identified by name.
Related: Scientists Find Cancer's 'Achilles Heel' — Which the Body Could Be Trained to Attack White Coats for Black Lives, an offshoot of the Black Lives Matter movement comprised mostly of medical students, has attempted to draw attention to racial injustices in medicine since its first "die in" protest in late 2221.
When Trump calls "Charm City," as it was described by advertisers trying to boost its reputation in the 28500s, "FAR WORSE and more dangerous" than the situation at the Southern border, he highlights Democrats' Achilles Heel—the wreckage left behind by their liberal policies, and most especially the damage done to minority communities.
With Mariana Alfaro Former White House communications director Hope Hicks told the FBI that President Trump viewed the intelligence community's assessment that Russia interfered on his behalf in the 2016 election as his "Achilles heel" because, even if it had no impact on the outcome of the election, people would think Russia helped him win.
"As the country becomes browner when you look at 51 percent of all immigrants come from Mexico or Latin America, I really think at some point it's going to become a huge Achilles' heel for the Republicans," said Steve Jarding, a Democratic strategist and former adviser to several Democratic senators from conservative-leaning states.
He would also push his crackdown on dissenting voices from the virtual into the real world, leading to the killing and dismemberment of the dissident Saudi writer Jamal Khashoggi in Istanbul in October 2018 — a crime that shocked the world and transformed Mr. al-Qahtani from Prince Mohammed's secret weapon into his Achilles' heel.
In my 10 years in venture, I've been fortunate enough to take advantage of this Achilles' heel by investing in technologies adjacent to and around it: SpringSource (application servers), MuleSoft (enterprise service buses), DataStax (the Cassandra NoSQL database), Redis Labs (the Redis NoSQL database), Hazelcast (in-memory computing fabric), Akka (microservices platform for Java and Scala), Iron.
A recent Washington Post poll highlights the Achilles' heel of Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpPossible GOP challenger says Trump doesn't doesn't deserve reelection, but would vote for him over Democrat O'Rourke: Trump driving global, U.S. economy into recession Manchin: Trump has 'golden opportunity' on gun reforms MORE's campaign: Minority voters, namely blacks and Hispanics, don't support him.
Directors Kevin Kölsch and Dennis Widmyer want their new Pet Sematary to work like an uncanny double of the original: There are numerous set-ups building towards iconic scenes from the original, all of which are undercut at the last minute—most famously the scalpel-on-Achilles-heel action that was probably the original film's defining image.
"With the leakage of biometric data and the enhancement of AI fraud ability, liveness detection has become the Achilles' heel of biometric authentication security as it is to verify if the biometric being captured is an actual measurement from the authorized live person who is present at the time of capture," the researchers said during the demonstration, reports Threatpost.
In particular, self-mythologizing has always been his Achilles heel, so there was a great deal of eye-rolling among critics in June, when the title of his next project was announced to be Fahrenheit 11/9 — a reference to his 2004 documentary Fahrenheit 9/11, which criticized the George W. Bush administration and the War on Terror.
What Mr. Erdogan needs is economic buttressing, and what Ms. Merkel needs is for Turkey to remain economically stable and for the Turkish leader to continue to stem the tide of refugees and migrants that pass through his country from war-torn nations — be they Syria, Iraq or Afghanistan — an issue that has become the chancellor's Achilles' heel.
We have no idea where he grew up in the city, or what he makes of its rapid transformation over the 30-odd years of his life, but we do know that he likes to go to places like Hotel Delmano and Achilles Heel, bars that hawk those $15 cocktails with names like Smokin' in the Boys' Room.
News that special counsel Robert Mueller has paired up with New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman suggests that he might be taking advantage of the special relationship states have with the federal government in the realm of criminal prosecution to end run the president's pardon power — if he is, then "states' rights" might just become Trump's Achilles heel.
The Democratic Latino coalition has always had an Achilles heel that includes three critical Latino segments: Cuban-Americans, who don't have an immigration issue thanks to the US dry foot, wet foot policy; Puerto Ricans, who similarly do not have an immigration issue, because all Puerto Ricans are born US citizens; and finally multigenerational Mexican-Americans, who for the most part do not have immigration concerns.
The graphics of the original IBM PC might be remembered in some ways as the machine's greatest achilles heel, one that stood in contrast to the arcades full of video games that were clearly more capable and visually appealing than the color shades that IBM used in its CGA color adapter in 1981, the same year Galaga and Donkey Kong were unleashed upon the world.
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Last summer, Oliver Strand wrote about a grilled-chicken situation out in Brooklyn – Hell Chicken, at Achilles Heel, in Greenpoint – in which the chef Lee Desrosiers hangs spatchcocked birds over the glowing embers of his large and involved backyard grill to get smoky, then braises them in a pot to get them good and dense and juicy, before returning them to the fire to crisp.
Instead, Scherzer finished the regular season as one of the favorites to claim the award, with a 20-7 record and 2.96 E.R.A. But he has a glaring Achilles' heel: Despite leading the major leagues with 284 strikeouts in the regular season, Scherzer allowed a career-high 31 home runs, the most in the N.L. Against the Dodgers, the same tendency put the Nationals in an early hole.
Here, inside a 1,000-square-foot space that was, in fact, previously a wine shop (they even kept the same shelves, lightening up the room by adding several Noguchi lanterns and buckets of white paint), McNany and Tarlow are selling bottles from people "who actually grow the grapes and farm the fruit," says Tarlow, whose restaurant portfolio (Diner, Roman's, Achilles Heel) has long heralded a similarly intimate, person-to-person ethos.
Stormy Daniels's lawyers told "Real Time" host Bill Maher on Friday that he has found President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE's "Achilles' heel" and predicts he can get Trump and Michael Cohen to appear for a deposition.
"Several advisers recalled that the president-elect viewed stories about his Russian connections, the Russia investigations and the intelligence community assessment of Russian interference as a threat to the legitimacy of his electoral victory," noted Volume II (which makes for far superior reading to Volume I). Hope Hicks, the former Trump communications director, told investigators that Trump considered the assessment his "Achilles heel" because if people thought Russia helped him win, it would take away from his own accomplishment.

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