Obama's seeming contrition before an avalanche of vicious attacks on the U.S. will simply discourage democratic allies and reconfirm the views of the autocrats that he may be weak and perhaps feckless.
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It has also focused attention on how some international cruise companies operate, registering their ships in countries where there may be weak regulations or where international rules are poorly enforced, but at the same time headquartering their companies in the United States and Europe.
But the broad group it is trying to assemble may be too weak to unseat the coalition.
As it is, Mr Ocalan's lot may be militarily weak but they have done what all guerrilla groups need to do: they have survived on the battlefield while gaining ground in diplomacy.
Letting them expire will impose an enormous tax hike on what may still be a weak economy.
Oil and gas, its greatest strength, may also be a weak spot.
There aren't that many monitors that can do all of the jobs you need, but you can pick up a Cinemaview with extra USB ports, or perhaps ASUS' VK248H (and related), which even have Displayport outputs and a Webcam, although it may be a bit weak in the speaker department.
But helicopters, historically volatile and prone to cost-cutting demands by governments, may be GKN's weak link.
His sister, Yara, reminds him that no matter how stupid and weak he may be, Theon is still family and should leave the castle.
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In fact, there is reason to think that, for now, a weak dollar may be more of a worry for America than a strong yen is for Japan.
Another force behind the merger mania may be a perverse result of weak oil-share prices: it is now cheaper to buy oil reserves on Wall Street than by drilling your own well.
Econometric analysis indicates that the effects of political uncertainty may be overstated, and that the weak economic situation is one of the causes, and not the consequence, of political gridlock, according to Goldman.
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That said, the enemy may well be two amateurs with a few weak laptops.
Yet many still worry that other weak Mediterranean countries may then be pushed out as well.
Norway may be about to elect a government too weak to reform much.
Some analysts believe Japanese consumer spending - long weighed down by price deflation and weak sentiment - may also be poised to recover.
But if the GP is unable to realize those projections in a tough fund-raising environment, they may be saddled with too much overhead and weak staff morale.
However, patients with a weak immune system may not be able to do this - at which point the tuberculosis bacteria starts to spread in the lung.
Weak sales growth may not be a big problem for the company at the moment, as it is able to turn out better than expected profits through controlled margins.
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"Ericsson is maintaining its top position in wireless networking equipment and technology, so the company will not be forced to merge with another player from a purely competitive position perspective, but rather may be forced to merge to reconcile its weak business model and financial condition, " Lesieur said in a note.
Weak productivity growth may in fact be just the flip side of this job-creating economic growth.
The biggest worry for Mr Koizumi may in fact be that the opposition is now so weak.
It may be worsening the problem by enabling too many competitively weak companies to avoid restructuring and to continue to operate even as they deliver next to nothing to shareholder.
If these card numbers were in fact stolen from the Playstation Network, it may be that the encryption Sony says it used was weak, badly implemented, or that the decryption key was included in the stolen data.
Though evidence for it is weak, this idea may or may not be correct.
Fourth, if Messrs Netanyahu and Barak reckon that they need America's military might to complete what they start, there may be no better combination to ensure that than a politically weak president whose Republican opponents have made unquestioning support for Israel a wedge issue a year before a presidential election.
Such an acceleration may be difficult for the economy to handle if it remains very weak.
"The general prison population can be very cruel towards other prisoners they may see as being weak, " he said.
Of course, each of these movies was poorly reviewed, and that may be the main factor in their poor performances, but the weak results also suggest that fantasy-free shoot-em-ups starring older men (many of them Expendables stars) aren't connecting with viewers right now.
The weak performances of these and other star-vehicles may be bombshells for some studio executives, but they come as no surprise to a growing cadre of academics studying the economics of film making and, more specifically, the bankability of stars.
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