| In fact, that was the Congress' Achilles heel as it scouted for more supporters. |
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| This concentration on rationalizing the tax system, however, fatally ignored the real Achilles heel of the royal finances. |
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| Much of this relates to the fuel delivery system, the previous Achilles heel of the diesel engine. |
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| The political failure to create a national liberation front is the Achilles heel of the resistance. |
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| He snapped his Achilles heel while bending to pick up a shuttlecock and will be in plaster for three months. |
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| Data exchange and information systems are the Achilles heel of international freight services. |
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| In fact, the question of income in producing countries is today the Achilles heel of the world coffee sector. |
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| The seasonality of Canadian production has been called the Achilles heel of the Canadian GH industry. |
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| Furthermore, the Achilles heel in the Commission's entire alignment strategy is the absence of any upper tax limit for Member States to respect. |
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| It is already beyond repair in Yemen, the Achilles heel of Arabia where the police state has fractured and fallen apart. |
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| But it also represents the Achilles heel of a company that loves to look backward more than it does forward. |
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| The economy's Achilles heel is overinvestment by businesses. |
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| Lack of evenhandedness has proved to be the Fund's Achilles heel in pursuing its mission of global stability. |
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| Innovation must be given special attention because it is innovation which is Europe's Achilles heel. |
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| I am afraid that this new model, whatever merits it may have had in former times, is now something of an Achilles heel to our economy. |
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| Market failure, one of the economic arguments for public broadcasting, may also be its own Achilles heel. |
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| Fred Moore, our storage editor-at-large, has clearly warned that electric power is the Achilles heel of the computer industry. |
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| Diversity is a strength, but it can quickly become our Achilles heel. |
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| Unfulfilled commitments are the Achilles heel of the peace process, and they threaten the peace dividends that the people of Nepal expect and so richly deserve. |
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| The Achilles heel of enterprises is often their lack of liquidity. |
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