If the performance of their pitches is deemed sufficiently weak, what was intended as a shrewd business move could backfire badly.

The German Emperor expected an American defeat, with Spain left in a sufficiently weak position for the revolutionaries to capture Manila-leaving the Philippines ripe for German picking.

His grandfather had been one of the Competitors for the Throne; but Edward the First had chosen John Balliol, as sufficiently weak to accept him as overlord.

In fact, if the strong nuclear interaction were made sufficiently weak, a Universe would exist which consisted of a single star containing all the mass in that Universe.

Japan's contacts with Tsarist Russia, the only Western power with which Japan shared a border, had remained relatively friendly while Japan was sufficiently weak to pose no threat.

With the forces of nature set against them, it was just as well that the US planners believed the Brazilian military to be sufficiently weak to allow the plan to succeed.

For example, if the spring constant is sufficiently weak, the dominant balance will be between the final two terms on the left side of the equation.

If the perturbation is sufficiently weak, we can write them as power series in λ:

Maury Harris, chief United States economist for UBS Warburg, said that a "sufficiently weak string of data could still push the Fed over the edge."

For example, sea surface temperatures must be sufficiently warm and vertical wind shear must be sufficiently weak for tropical disturbances to form and persist.