weakest link

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If every area had to defend itself, then the system was only as strong as its weakestlink.
Unsurprisingly, the weakestlink in medical device regulation is adverse incident reporting, medical vigilance, and monitoring after medical devices are on the market.
Amongst the constituent interest groups, it probably has the weakestlink with the populist musical ethic which is presently the driving force behind the process.
At higher pulling rates, the lipid becomes the weakestlink and fails first.
In combination, such work would allow the partitioning of error and would allow research effort to be targeted more closely to the 'weakestlink' in the overall prediction system.
The weakestlink in the chain is the first one.
Its contradictions were sharper; from this notion was later to be developed the theory that the chain of imperialism tended to break at its weakestlink.
The weakestlink is in the syntax.
Indeed, in these circumstances, the effectiveness of all these protective measures is determined by the weakestlink.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
They think we are the weakestlink, and the signal we are sending them is that they are absolutely correct.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
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