That had much more to do with the grave internal weaknesses in the Soviet system than with anything the United States did.

We may have a grave interior weakness at this last battle.

Your theory, which is that the Soviet empire suffered from "grave internal weakness" and collapsed of its own weight, makes little sense to me.

As you know, the Roman and the Ottoman empires suffered from "grave internal weaknesses" but persisted for centuries.

But with these advantages had come grave weaknesses: autism, fugue states, and paranoia.

He was as much an Englishman as he was a gentleman, and he had the very grave weaknesses of both characters.

True, it serves Moscow in a period of grave internal weakness, maintaining its place on the international scene.

But "historians," he said, believe the end of the Cold War had "more to do with the grave internal weaknesses in the Soviet system.

It was a grave weakness in his security.

The gravest weakness of the merchant seaman's position was the risk of being cheated by an unscrupulous master.