Sentences with phrase «weak reeds»

The churches may be only weak reeds against incipient totalitarian forces.

But music and technology proved weak reeds to hold together what Christopher Dawson called a «society of peoples.»

However, despite the valiant efforts of left Rawlsians to press down hard on pre-distribution and force it to yield some radical implications (O'Neill and Williamson, 2012; Doron, 2012), in Miliband's formulation it seems a weak reed, relying on labour market interventions such as education and training to alter distributional outcomes.

Labour has clung to a small but consistent poll lead for months, but in the past couple of weeks even that weak reed has snapped.

He is left with a very weak reed indeed to which he then clutches.

And Stephanie Meyer is a weak reed to hang any argument on, BTW.

While many AGW advocate's primary agenda is centralized government control of the economy, advocacy of such in pursuit of adaptation would seem an incredibly weak reed.

With rare exception Rabett Run's policy is to speak no evil of the dead, or even the retired (Eli will soon join the tribe), still Gray reminded Eli of a number of senior guys he knew who did their training when theory was a weak reed and worthy only of derision, but by careful observation developed a set of ad hoc models, which turned out to be way wrong but extremely useful for prediction.

The plank you feel you've grasped is probably a weak reed.