I will replace his weak-kneed whimpering with a warrior's battle cry.
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And it's been equally common for weak-kneed regulators to do as industry bids.
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"Weak-kneed career politicians aren't strong enough to stand" with Trump, Tuberville tweeted on Tuesday.
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This weak-kneed response surprises and disappoints all manner of opinion makers and anti-Trump Republicans.
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Tesla's year-to-date stock-price history looks ... like something that isn't for the weak-kneed.
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He made a packed audience of government watchdog supporters "weak-kneed," as one spectator posted on Twitter.
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Neeson told the BBC that he "was weak-kneed" when he got the award from the queen.
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But Mr Steyer has a fractious relationship with the Democratic Party's leadership, which he views as weak-kneed.
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But the people who showed their true colors in France over the weekend were the weak kneed Europeans.
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He views House Republicans as having been weak-kneed when it comes to challenging the leader of their party.
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Hilma af Klint reminds us that institutionally approved narratives generally function as touchstones for conformists and the weak-kneed.
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Another nighttime teen soap, it has created a new crowd of tabloid-cover pinups to make Gen Z weak-kneed.
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The video made the rounds Sunday, showing a weak-kneed Clinton being carried into a van near the September 11th Memorial.
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And that's fine as long as we don't get a Michelle 2.0 that goes all weak-kneed and loses her bite.
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When they want to criticize opponents for being weak-kneed, Republicans often recall Neville Chamberlain and his policy of appeasing Adolf Hitler.
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Like Fred MacMurray's weak-kneed patsy in "Double Indemnity," Emily is thunderstruck by one of those noir blondes who could easily prove fatal.
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But it is to say that the political price for such weak-kneed, noodle-spined blind loyalty is becoming steeper by the day.
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While the weak-kneed undoubtedly will lament the horrors of such a terrible death, it is doubtful Soleimani even knew what hit him.
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" "Today's cave by Senate Democrats -- led by weak-kneed, right-of-center Democrats -- is why people don't believe the Democratic Party stands for anything.
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"They are dumping the kitchen sink into this Senate Leadership bill....We got so many weak-kneed Republicans now," he said in a statement. Sen.
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With that kind of weak-kneed response to direct attacks, it would be an improvement to merely come out of tomorrow's meeting looking like fools.
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By writing herself out of art history, af Klint reminds us that institutionally approved narratives generally function as touchstones for conformists and the weak-kneed.
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"I won't be weak-kneed or just focus on dialogue, as we did in the past," Mr. Moon told leaders of the Korean Senior Citizens Association.
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Examples abound of campuses where weak-kneed administrators are happy to stifle robust expression to avoid the outrage of ideologically driven student affairs staffers and faculty.
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Indeed, beyond a few weak-kneed House members and well-fed lackeys in the West Wing, no one really fears getting their ass kicked by Donald Trump.
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The media and Democrats (and even some weak-kneed Republicans) have been focusing on children separated from their "parents," though there are questions about their actual relationships.
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Frances is far from a starry-eyed romantic: She has cheated on her husband; she is a narcissistic oversharer, a foul-mouthed accuser, a weak-kneed manipulator.
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He has denounced federal support for aging and disabled refugees, and called legislators "weak-kneed" over their failure to repeal the Affordable Care Act without a replacement.
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Clinton ran against Obama in a bitter campaign in 2008, and many of Sanders's most fervent supporters think he's a weak-kneed neoliberal sellout tool of Wall Street.
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Mr. Bolton clashed regularly with Ms. Rice and, after leaving office, broke with Mr. Bush over what he saw as weak-kneed policies on North Korea and Iran.
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The image of protesters spitting on troops enlivened notions that the military mission had been compromised, even betrayed, by weak-kneed liberalism in Congress and seditious radicalism on college campuses.
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We are not being weak-kneed alarmists, and our stalwart opposition is a reaction to the rhetoric of groups that now openly proclaim how they want America to be and look.
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Those nightly images of lawlessness, in their eyes, were an indictment of the weak-kneed way Democratic Governor Jay Nixon let protesters and outside agitators run amok, looting without apparent consequence.
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It thus seems beyond unlikely that Mitch McConnell, the Senate majority leader, or Paul Ryan, the weak-kneed speaker of the House, would entertain any thought of strong action, like censure.
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An iconoclastic believer in a forceful approach to the world, he disdains what he views as weak-kneed conventional diplomacy, international organizations that intrude on American sovereignty and free-rider allies.
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He'll eventually suck up the border wall loss and blame intransigent Democrats for not caring about border security as well as weak-kneed Senate Republicans who refused to pull the nuclear trigger.
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When one piles this market-access extortion on top of China's already well-known, weak-kneed protection of intellectual property and rampant cyber theft, it becomes clear that something must be done.
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Many wave stars-and-stripes flags or brandish placards daubed with slogans protesting against Donald Trump and Mr Rothfus, including especially the congressman's weak-kneed refusal to meet them at a public event.
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When he bypassed the World Trade Organization last week to slap tariffs on some $60 billion in Chinese imports, Mr. Trump reinforced his scorn for multilateralism as the province of weak-kneed sentimentalists.
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They viewed the weak-kneed Europeans as especially likely to cave, and to greedily seek trade deals that would put the final nail in the coffin of a Middle East free from Iranian domination.
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"Today's cave by Senate Democrats - led by weak-kneed, right-of-center Democrats - is why people don't believe the Democratic Party stands for anything," said Stephanie Taylor, co-founder of the Progressive Change Campaign Committee.
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"Today's cave by Senate Democrats — led by weak-kneed, right-of-center Democrats — is why people don't believe the Democratic Party stands for anything," said Stephanie Taylor, co-founder of the Progressive Change Campaign Committee.
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But a surge in tension with traditional foe Pakistan in February has pushed Modi ahead, as he projects himself as a defender of national security and paints his rivals as weak-kneed, sometimes even questioning their patriotism.
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Meanwhile, Trump doubled down, punishing Jessie Liu, an official who was accused was accused of weak-kneed oversight of significant cases when she had recently led the prosecuting office, and saluting Barr on Twitter for his intervention.
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"Refusing to join me in Cambridge tonight would be another sign of Theresa May's weakness, not strength," Mr. Corbyn, who has been trying to revamp his own image as a weak-kneed pacifist, said in a statement.
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Aided by the bevy of cable TV hosts, talk radio impresarios, and bloggers who thrive on chaos — they will spread the belief that Americans have been betrayed both by Democrats and by weak-kneed and corrupt Republican establishment leaders.
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But a surge in tension with traditional foe Pakistan in February has pushed Modi ahead, as he plays up his image as a defender of national security and paints his rivals as weak-kneed, even questioning their patriotism at times.
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Luke Cage—black American man—is Power Man: Find me another hero more transgressive, more divine in his ability to disturb the peace, to rattle the weak-kneed constitution of nerds and bros who think their white heroes translate and transcend cultures.
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The flip side is when the only thing we've ever done legislatively so far on cyber is a pretty weak-kneed information-sharing bill, and when it comes to critical infrastructure and certain other things, I'm just not sure that's going through.
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I'm in it, because just last week we're watching our sailors suffer and be humiliated on a world stage at the hands of Iranian captors in violation of international law, because a weak-kneed, capitulator-in-chief has decided America will lead from behind.
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Murshed Zaheed, CREDO's political director, told The Associated Press in March, I'd rather have 44 or 45 awesome Democrats who are lock step together than 44 or 45 really awesome Democrats and three to four weak-kneed individuals who are going to dilute the party.
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Marie takes Harold and Kumar on a Jersey jughandle journey ("Spirit in the Night"), meeting such iconic characters as Weak-Kneed Willie, Big Bones Billie, Hazy Davy, Go-Kart Mozart and the Chicken Man, who, as the "Atlantic City" lyric says, will blow up.
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For one moment, the voice of the soprano Emoke Barath, normally plush and warm, turned weak-kneed and faint — a reflection of the artful dimming of tone that the mezzo Giuseppina Bridelli, as Orpheus, had used to color her character's descent into the underworld.
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In 220006 the Iranians took Barack ObamaBarack Hussein ObamaMost voters say there is too much turnover in Trump administration Trump's 'soldier of fortune' foreign policy Warren picks up key endorsement from Iowa state treasurer MORE and his weak-kneed foreign-policy staff to the cleaners.
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A checkered blazer's firm shoulders were mantles, pant legs cut in a banana shape (I bought a pair of banana cropped jeans with blue embroidery for $140), and both lent the appearance of a strong stance even if you were slouching, weak-kneed, underneath.
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Unfortunately, Mr. Trump has been spoiled by two years of Congress being led by weak-kneed members of his party who, even when troubled by his excesses, largely let him run amok, lest he call down upon them the wrath of the Republican base.
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But such a coalition did not appear to be forming, and courting one bears considerable risk for a president who is most comfortable when he is defying convention, eschewing compromise and being hailed as a hero by supporters who often equate bipartisan deal making with weak-kneed capitulation.
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Ride on a DC subway or head to your local town hall meeting and there'll you find a coven of delightfully angry women in pink hats, ready to push a flyer into your hand, scream at some weak-kneed Congressman and knit as long as it takes until freedom rings.
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"Over the last 2015 years or so, regardless of what party was in power, the FTC has been afraid, been risk-averse, been weak-kneed — choose your metaphor — to the powers of the big digital companies," said Jeff Chester, executive director for the Center for Digital Democracy, who was involved in the talks.
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"Over the last 20 years or so, regardless of what party was in power, the FTC has been afraid, been risk-averse, been weak-kneed — choose your metaphor — to the powers of the big digital companies," said Jeff Chester, executive director for the Center for Digital Democracy, who was involved in the talks.
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Sen. Rand PaulRandal (Rand) Howard PaulGraham promises ObamaCare repeal if Trump, Republicans win in 2020 Conservatives buck Trump over worries of 'socialist' drug pricing Rand Paul to 'limit' August activities due to health MORE (R-Ky.) says some of his "weak-kneed" Republican colleagues need to remember what they stand for regarding the repeal of ObamaCare.
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Twenty-six years ago this month, Donald J. Trump sat down with Glenn Plaskin, a celebrity columnist, and, over a glass of chilled Coke, offered a grievance-filled economic agenda, a searing denunciation of weak-kneed American leadership and a keen understanding of his appeal to blue-collar Americans that uncannily resembled the White House campaign he is waging today — without Twitter, which didn't yet exist.
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He needs two years of preaching that he's the only thing standing between survival and one-party control by the weak-kneed, ICE-melting, big-spending, crime-coddling cadre of socialists led by Bernie SandersBernie SandersHarry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' The exhaustion of Democrats' anti-Trump delusions Warren offers plan to repeal 1994 crime law authored by Biden MORE, Elizabeth WarrenElizabeth Ann WarrenHarry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Warren offers plan to repeal 85033 crime law authored by Biden Panel: Jill Biden's campaign message MORE and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
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Butch explains that he clobbers every kid in school to prove that he is in charge. By a fluke, weak-kneed Alfalfa is chosen to face Butch in the barnyard boxing ring—and he has only one day to train for the big bout.
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The two escape the palace for the temporary safety of the wilderness. The Fianna awaken from their stupor, bound and weak-kneed. They break free and an enraged Finn calls upon them and the women of the court to seek out the lovers. They comb the forest furiously and in the ensuing frenzy Diarmuid and Grania are separated.
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But what moved detainees to confess was not their broken loyalty to Mau Mau, but their devotion to their families. British officials played on this devotion to hasten a confession. The battle behind the wire was not fought between patriotic hard- core Mau Mau and weak-kneed, wavering, broken men who confessed. Both hard core and soft core had their families in mind.
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A Gule Wamkulu mask depicting a wild animal. Nyau dances involve intricate footwork, flinging dust in the air. Dancers respond to specific drumbeats and songs depending on the mask type or character. The dancers, described as "fleet-footed or nimble- footed", appear in masks representing the dead, human being or animal; the weak-kneed run away from sights of such dances.
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Macleod was not a member of the Egypt Committee, and still less was he party to Eden and Lloyd's secret dealings with the French and the Israelis.Shepherd 1994, p. 114 Macleod's duties required him to discuss the Suez Crisis with union leaders. In August 1956 he spoke to Vincent Tewson, General Secretary of the TUC, and found him "very "weak-kneed"" and "ill-informed".
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Hugo Eckener, the captain, blamed the accident on his "weak- kneed" decision to let the eagerness of the passengers to fly overcome his reluctance to take the ship out in the existing conditions.Robinson 1973, p. 58. The company's luck changed with the next ship, the LZ 10 Schwaben. Completed on 26 June and delivered to DELAG on 15 July, it carried 1553 paying passengers during its career.
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Sarge Sarge is the stern and regimented leader of the Red Team who speaks with both a pirate accent and a cockney accent. Simon Simon (Simmons) is the weak-kneed sycophant with a shrill voice and a bad memory. Orangish Guy Whose Name I Really Don't Remember Orangish Guy Whose Name I Really Don't Remember (Grif) is the drunk whose name is always forgotten or mispronounced. Unlike his real Self Orangish Guy Whose Name I Really Don't Remember armor colour is yellow.
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Carter has publicly expressed support both for a ban on assault weapons and for background checks of gun buyers. In May 1994, Carter and former presidents Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan wrote to the U.S. House of Representatives in support of banning "semi-automatic assault guns." In a February 2013 appearance on Piers Morgan Tonight, Carter agreed that if the assault weapons ban did not pass it would be mainly due to lobbying by the National Rifle Association and its pressure on "weak-kneed" politicians.
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The War Cabinet (11 October 1917) invited Wilson and French to submit formal written advice, a blatant undermining of Robertson's position. Dining with Wilson and French the night before, Lloyd George claimed that Robertson was "afraid of Haig, & that both of them are pigheaded, stupid & narrow visioned".Jeffery 2006, pp 201–5 Wilson and French urged no major war- winning offensive until 1919. Robertson thought the War Cabinet a "weak kneed craven hearted Cabinet ... Lloyd George hypnotises them and is allowed to run riot".
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When China's repeated demands for the release of the skipper were refused and the detention of the skipper was extended for ten more days, the Chinese government cancelled official meetings of the ministerial level and above. Though denied by the Chinese government, it was reported that China halted exports of rare earth minerals to Japan. The detained Chinese crew members were released without charge and were allowed to return home. In China the overall event is perceived as a diplomatic victory, while in Japan the Japanese government's "weak-kneed" handling of the issue was criticized.
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Forward from thumb Heroes of the Fiery Cross is a book in praise of the Ku Klux Klan, published in 1928 by Protestant Bishop Alma Bridwell White, in which she "sounds the alarm about imagined threats to Protestant Americans from Catholics and Jews", according to author Peter Knight. In the book she asks rhetorically, "Who are the enemies of the Klan? They are the bootleggers, law-breakers, corrupt politicians, weak-kneed Protestant church members, white slavers, toe-kissers, wafer-worshippers, and every spineless character who takes the path of least resistance." She also argues that Catholics are removing the Bible from public schools.
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250–251 Journalist Heywood Broun pretended to investigate: "We assumed, of course, from the tone of Mr. Palmer's manifesto that his opponents for the nomination were Rumanians, Greeks and Icelanders, and weak-kneed ones at that....We happened into Cox's headquarters wholly by accident and were astounded to discover that he, too, is an American. ... Thus encouraged we went to all camps and found that the candidates are all Americans."Pietruska, 246 Palmer had considerable support among party professionals, but no track record as a campaigner or a vote winner. He won delegates in the Michigan and Georgia primaries but did so without demonstrating voter appeal.
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Frederick B. Artz, Reaction & Revolution: 1814–1832 (1934), p. 110 Historian G. M. Trevelyan argues: :In 1813 and 1814 Castlereagh played the part that William III and Marlborough had played more than a hundred years before, in holding together an alliance of jealous, selfish, weak-kneed states and princes, by a vigour or character and singleness of purpose that held Metternich, the Czar, and the King of Prussia on the common track until the goal was reached. It is quite possible that, but for the lead taken by Castlereagh in the allied counsels, France would never have been reduced to her ancient limits, nor Napoleon dethroned.
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Too many succeed in evading the decree of > unconstitutionality and bear oppressively on natural rights. The selfish > interest of classes ever anxious to push on their own fortunes, reckless of > what destruction is wrought to others, is their moving cause. Legislatures, > pliantly serviceable to the demands of influential cliques and unchecked by > weak-kneed governors, spread them on the statute books, and there they > stand, discouraging prophecies of the decadence of popular rights under > democracy. They hide in swarms, behind the newly coined phrase, "police > power," and that other more venerable phrase, "the public welfare," both of > which, like "public policy," are often, if one may use such an expression, > liveries of heaven stolen to serve the devil in.
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Like many of his political colleagues and members of the general public, Birrell strongly disapproved of the militancy and violence of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU; suffragettes). In November 1910, when walking alone from the House of Commons, he was set upon by a group of about twenty suffragettes who had recognised him. While he did not believe there was any serious attempt to injure him, in trying to escape he twisted his knee and "slipped the knee-cap". C. P. Scott wrote in his diary that Birrell feared he might require an operation to remove his knee-cap and joked that, if he did, he would remain 'a weak-kneed politician' to the end of his life.
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A Ragamuffin Band was a musical group founded by Rich Mullins in 1993, when he gathered friends from other bands to back him on his A Liturgy, A Legacy, & A Ragamuffin Band album. The band continued to record and tour with Mullins, and even carried on after his 1997 death. The group's name is derived from Brennan Manning's 1990 book The Ragamuffin Gospel, which defines ragamuffins as "the burdened, the wobbly and weak-kneed, the inconsistent, unsteady disciples... the smart people who know they are stupid... the honest disciples who admit they are scalawags". On February 2, 2019 the band reunited to perform The Jesus Record in its entirety with several guest artists to raise funds for member Rick Elias, who had been diagnosed with brain cancer the previous year.
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Battery E moved through Holly Springs and on to White Station, Tennessee, where it arrived on January 31, 1863 and encamped. In an effort to fight the cold conditions while wintering there in a Sibley tent, Private Rice describes heating two cast-iron wheels weighing forty pounds each in a fire until they became red-hot, then taking them into his tent, where according to him: "...they make it comfortable."Letters of James Bolton Rice to his wife, Vol 2: 1863 Letter of February 6, 1863. During this time of relative quiet, Rice reports one muster where the battery commander asked all of the "weak-kneed ones" to step forward, as "we would be in a fight in only three hours."Letters of James Bolton Rice to his wife, Vol 2: 1863 Letter of February 18, 1863.
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In another letter, Rice describes the antipathy many Federal soldiers felt following the issuance of Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation in January 1863: In subsequent paragraphs, Rice voraciously attacks Northern "Copperheads", referring to them as "damning traitors" and saying they should be "choked down and served as we serve them down here." He goes on to say that four men in his own regiment are Copperheads (in his estimation), describing them as "weak-kneed, weak-backed ones who were scared into the Service through fear of the draft." He ends, however on a note of guarded optimism that the government will overcome the "arch-traitors" and "rise like the morning mist, and show the world that America still stands with its government and institutions stronger better dearer than ever."Letters of James Bolton Rice to his wife, Vol 2: 1863 Letter of January 30, 1863.
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Moreover, public discussion of security matters by government officials, political party leaders, press commentators, and academics had become markedly less volatile and doctrinaire and more open and pragmatic, suggesting indirectly that public attitudes on this subject had evolved as well. The mass media, and particularly the press, as the champion of the public interest and critic of the government, continues to mold public attitudes strongly. The media is the chief source of demands that the government exercise a more independent and less "weak-kneed" diplomacy in view of the changing world situation and Japan's increased stature in the world. An example of this attitude has been the continued support for whaling through the International Whaling Commission that has brought increasing opposition from several important trading partner countries such as the US, the UK, New Zealand and Australia "The forces that drive Japanese whaling", BBC News, Thursday, 15 June 2006, 10:30 GMT 11:30 UK. .
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