| The range of many weapons is limited by the capacity of their fuel tanks, and efforts to resupply them create a military Achilles' heel. |
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| In the circumstances, worrying about being thought mad or humourless seems a peculiar Achilles' heel. |
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| The fiscal service has long been regarded as the Achilles' heel of the whole criminal justice system. |
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| However, the narrowness of the debate has successfully kept attention away from their real Achilles' heel. |
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| However, the proliferation of blogs and bloggers could represent the Achilles' heel in this approach. |
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| I wondered at first how they always managed to catch us, and soon realized the balcony was our Achilles' heel. |
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| Despite being experienced enough to know not to underestimate his opponents, his overbearing confidence may prove his Achilles' heel. |
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| They hope the DNA sequence will identify weaknesses in the bacterium's genetic armour and possibly its Achilles' heel. |
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| Personally, I would say that the lack of an integrated keypad will be this computer's Achilles' heel. |
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| The concession of late goals has been their Achilles' heel over the last year or so. |
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| It seems to me that we have come to accept death on Earth as part of our human flaw, as our Achilles' heel. |
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| You can either deal with the weakness and make it stronger, or deny the weakness exists, and let it be your Achilles' heel. |
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| Her movement, so much improved over the last two years, has now become an Achilles' heel once more and that may be the telling factor. |
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| New evidence points to production of myelin, a fatty insulation coating the brain's internal wiring, as a neural Achilles' heel early in life. |
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| That failure could be his Achilles' heel, for whenever he addresses environmental activist groups he offers platitudes, but little promise of action. |
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| Our greatest strength, our freedoms and rights, is also our Achilles' heel when we are confronted by an enemy that refuses to abide by the same rules. |
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| That Ireland didn't suffer on the scoreboard was down to a lack of a killer instinct, which the visitors have previously shown to be something of an Achilles' heel. |
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| For example, let's take the cylinder head, the Achilles' heel of the reconditioned engine. |
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| Sewers will remain the Achilles' heel of York's flood defences if environment chiefs fail to invest in the city's drainage system, according to a city leader. |
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| Neighbouring rights are an indispensable tool for bolstering our recording industry, whose Achilles' heel is underfunding. |
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| Despite warnings and recommendations, delays continue to be the Achilles' heel of the access to information system and have yet to be appropriately addressed across the government. |
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| Every time we refer to a siren or to Achilles' heel or compare a lovely woman to Helen of Troy we are borrowing from these poems of three thousand years ago. |
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| Services are the Achilles' heel of many developing countries, whose capacity to export is limited by poor productivity and a lack of competition in their service sectors. |
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| Since the dawn of the automobile age, the Achilles' heel of electric vehicles has been the weight and poor energy performance of the type of battery in general use: the lead acid battery. |
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| Achilles' heel was the only part of his body which was not invulnerable to damage by human weaponry. |
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