All this brought us the financial crisis, when the overinflated bubble inevitably popped, and all those weak affordable housing mortgages left financial institutions particularly vulnerable.
Mr Blair, Mr Howard and Mr Berlusconi all face divided and weak political opposition.
So far the leading tech indicators are not good with Google, Intel and IBM all reporting weak earnings.
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Four major solar companies reported results this morning, and all four reported weak results as a result of the difficult conditions in the industry.
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This echoes two interesting background motifs of the book: that lawlessness and anarchy hurt the poor and weak most of all, and that the greed of corrupt clerics is particularly odious.
The role of Njurinceke since the start of the Meru community was to preserve the cohesiveness of the people of Meru, the territorial integrity, ensure proper governance of the society with justice and fairness to all, protect the weak and vulnerable especially women and children, and act as guardians of culture and identity.
While the municipal bond market is so frothy and has bid up all prices, sell out your weak issues and swap into strong credits.
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Inflation, housing starts, and mortgage applications all showed very weak readings, partially fueling the argument that additional support is needed for the economy.
The profit, Dimon said, was the product of markdowns on leveraged loans and mortgage trading positions, as well as weak trading results and deterioration in all types of loans.
Depressed household spending, reluctant firms, and the aforementioned weak residential real estate market could all come together and, coupled with the fiscal cliff, derail the tepid recovery.
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Deregulation was thought to be the solution to any and all imbalances, as the market would find any weak institutions and punish them for bad decisions before the whole system became rotten.
"He didn't pull back at all and end up with a weak bill, " said Richard Aborn, president of the Citizens' Crime Commission, a nonprofit criminal-justice policy group.
Japan, with the highest debt burden of all, weak growth and terrible demographics, ought to have lost investors' confidence long ago, but thanks to a pliant domestic saver base, falls somewhere in between.
"You might not notice the 0.5% but you certainly notice that the economy is very weak, and furthermore all of that growth is coming from the export side, " he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.
If all Republicans offer is sniping and weak rhetoric the electorate may just stand pat.
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To begin with, I believe that all nations -- strong and weak alike -- must adhere to standards that govern the use of force.
Unfortunately, top competitors PPR SA, the Gucci parent, and LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton all recently reported lackluster China sales, and European shoppers remain squeezed by weak wages and deep economic uncertainty.
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After all, economic growth remains weak and the looming fiscal cliff could seriously hamper buying activity.
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They were only strong insofar as the dollar was very weak, and in gold terms all fell substantially.
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The recovery was under way, but the commentators all said it was wobbly and anemic and weak and fragile, and then you got the tax cuts.
And always, to all, you have carried the Gospel of life, which welcomes the stranger and protects the weak and innocent.
All the data says that usernames and passwords are the weak link in the security chain.
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So a steep oil price, a weak economy and an anxious credit market have all weakened the dollar.
After all, all Asian exporters face the same weak European and American markets.
In healthy women the drugs don't appear to save lives at all, and the evidence they prevent heart disease is weak: Statin takers have only a slightly better chance of avoiding heart disease than women on a placebo, according to a recent analysis.
In just 19 words, it provides an impressive selection of current widespread writing woes: dangling modifier ("vestiges" didn't walk in the front door), poor word choice ("vestiges, " "domesticity, " "regardless"), excessive prepositions (four in all) and an underappreciated but pervasive ill, a weak sentence-subject ("vestiges").
This means that despite their record of weak management and unwise lending, the banks will all remain in business.
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