Sentences with phrase «upon as a sign of weakness»

By that I would assert that tears are looked down upon as a sign of weakness, a symbol of vulnerability in a society that is unable to healthily respond to emotions.

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The signs of weakness that were seized upon were anomalies; the underlying economy remained very strong, incipient inflationary pressures were starting to appear, and during this period our interest rates were raised, as it turned out, more or less by the same amount as those in the United States.

Upon reflection, I suspect that there are other factors that explain this sort of antagonistic approach, including tradition — «this is the way we've always done it» — and a sort of old school lawyerly machismo that views willingness to negotiate as a sign of weakness.