NATO's smart weapons squeamishness about taking (as well as gratuitously inflicting) casualties is also the alliance's Achilles heel.
That was kind of the Achilles heel that Congress used to attack income shifting with trusts.
O'Neill trained on Sunday, but complained of lingering pain in his left Achilles heel.
But the Conservatives will have to be believed and this is the Achilles heel of the strategy.
So it is clear that Israel cannot simply turn its back on the free world's Achilles heel.
If the new pension regime has an Achilles heel, it is the state-owned institutions still associated with it.
Low productivity remains its Achilles heel, with no clear signs of any recent pick-up in its trend growth.
"Water is the nuclear industry's Achilles heel, " Jim Warren, executive director of N.
Reg NMS worked perfectly well Thursday but the crisis exposed its Achilles heel.
"I see England's big Achilles heel as being the top order, " he says.
That makes the antibodies useful weapons in attacking the virus' Achilles heel, and a potentially powerful target for an effective vaccine.
The party's biggest achilles heel remains the legacy of their record on health and education over the past decade in power.
But the revolution in military robotics does have an Achilles heel, notes Emmanuel Goffi of the French air-force academy in Salon-de-Provence.
There may be one item that will provoke smirks and chuckles around the table because it clearly is your Achilles heel.
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The ease of these attacks reinforces the extent to which fuel remains an Achilles heel for the U.S. efforts in the region.
It seems like Scholastic did a pretty good job of avoiding nexus, but the Achilles heel of the system was the teachers.
Dr Manning said that region may have been the dinosaur's "Achilles heel".
Its Achilles heel, however, is the still mediocre quality of available apps.
Meanwhile, what was once an Achilles heel is becoming a competitive advantage.
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This has always been the Achilles heel of the 2014 World Cup.
Unlike other technologies, Sequesco says it can convert carbon into liquid fuel without sunlight, which would avoid the Achilles heel of similar technologies.
He warned that competitiveness remained Europe's "Achilles heel", with the single market incomplete and "unnecessary" measures from Brussels burdening businesses and destroying jobs.
This Achilles heel of the Android ecosystem (it drives app developers to invest more in iOS apps) has been visible for several years.
Obama has pledged to defend Dodd-Frank from these attacks, but the incredible vastness and complexity of the law may prove to be its Achilles heel.
It is apparent that the best way to take a chunk out of cybercrime is attacking its Achilles heel: going after the cash flow itself.
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This requirement, though reasonable and common, could be an Achilles heel.
The ethnic conflict remains Burma's Achilles heel and needs to be taken as seriously as economic reforms and national reconciliation with Aung San Suu Kyi.
Imagine having banks in Cyprus become an Achilles heel for Europe.
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Now they think they have found an Achilles heel: global warming.
Arena woes are often the Achilles heel of a sports franchise.
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