weakness

“Part of my strength is I know my weaknesses … I don’t have the bandwidth to approach that yet.”

This is a way to force Ukraine to negotiate from a position of weakness with Russia.

"Covid cost the lives of nearly 250,000 people in the UK, and if we don't take every step we can to learn from mistakes, we are going to leave a weakness in our response."

Her one weakness, if you could call it that, was that she wasn’t the fastest person, but she certainly understood how to play the game and is a much better defensive player than people think.

In other words, they’re falling back on the real legal weakness behind much of what’s been happening in Washington since Jan. 20.