Pakistan is a troubled land, a formal democracy with weak a civilian government and dominant army.
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Imagine a doctor telling you she is deliberately prescribing an excessive dose of a drug because she prescribed too weak a dose the last time.
Some members of the CDU believe that Angela Merkel, who took over as party leader after Schaeuble stood down, is too weak a candidate for chancellor.
Undermined by Colombia's long-running political scandals, President Ernesto Samper is in too weak a position to offer meaningful peace negotiations, as he promised when elected in 1994.
The trouble with John Major was not just that he was too weak a personality to be an effective PM, but that he also made weak decisions - or did not make decisions at all.
"He entered as kind of a weak front-runner and he leaves as a weak front-runner, " Obama senior adviser David Axelrod said on a conference call with reporters, citing Mr. Romney's economic policy and his lack of credibility in terms of his position on issues.
FDI, however, there could be a weak or a strong version of national treatment.
Better a strong weak agreement that has a good chance of being honoured than a weak strong agreement that is likely to collapse.
The results were good, but we have to admit they are compared to a pretty weak quarter a year ago.
But - and of course we've got weak leadership all around, whether it's leadership in Israel that's undergoing a crisis of confidence, weak government in Lebanon, a weak, even collapsing, government on the Palestinian side.
Rather than worry about a weak euro, Mr Summers might do well to contemplate the real possibility of a weak dollar.
Marek Belka, the prime minister, is in a weak position, as his ruling Democratic Left Alliance has been falling apart over scandals and a weak economy.
Stimulative monetary policy will not cause inflation in a continually weak economy, though it will strengthen a weak economy.
The country is still suffering from a weak economy and a volatile security situation.
Their prescription for a weak economy is a large slug of austerity.
Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner is continuing the previous Administration's lamentable protectionist policy of promoting a weak dollar as a means to reduce imports.
The Treasury Department bureaucracy has long believed in a weak dollar as a means of redressing the supposed problems of our trade imbalance.
Then, the US was worried that a weak yen and a strong Japanese market was buying up US companies and creating an imbalance in global trade.
Mensing then forced Celtic goalkeeper Fraser Forster to get down and save a weak shot after a neat one-two brought the Hamilton defender bearing down on the Celtic goal.
But a weak dollar and a strong yen can only worsen Japan's economic plight by putting still more downward pressure on prices and making exports one of Japan's few sources of growth less competitive.
Stocks were hit especially hard by the political news, along with a weak reading on a European purchasing managers survey for April, which some analysts said pointed to a continued economic downturn for the Continent in the second quarter.
Chancellor's Schroeder's remarks also suggested "a potentially dangerous divergence" between those who stress "the benefits of a weak euro in stimulating exports and job growth", and the European Central Bank, "which fears the inflationary consequences of a weak currency", the paper says.
The gold and silver miners such as Silver Wheaton (SLW), Barrick Gold (ABX), and Newmont Mining (NEM) followed the precious metals in the fall but managed to stage only a weak recovery in a strong contrast to the big up-move in gold.
Thus, Colombia was converted into a weak state submerged in a sea of anarchy.
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The bad news is that Turkey has a weak government, rarely a harbinger of peace.
Even worse than a weak resolution would be a "presidential statement, " a toothless gesture of the Council's opinion.
Mary Higgins QC, for Daly, also contended that her client was facing "a weak case based on a scintilla of evidence".
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