But cultural resistance, lack of contraception or weak political will cannot be the sole explanations.
As you'd expect, spreads usually widen for companies with litigation problems, heavy debt loads or weak operating results.
Risks included slow implementation of structural reforms by governments, or weak domestic demand.
The age group also suffered from "continuing staffing turbulence", particularly unqualified or weak teachers, or frequent changes of staff.
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Right is right and wrong is wrong - and it doesn't matter if you are rich or poor, powerful or weak.
If you have a poor or weak employment brand you have to work extra hard, and often the best people go elsewhere.
Members of the jury rightly rejected that argument stating that the case is about the merits not about who is strong or weak.
Bungled deals with Starz and Warner Bros. that left it with no deals or weak deals have put Netflix in a long-range weakened position.
"A comprehensive approach is absolutely essential because if any one of the components is absent or weak and ineffective, the entire accountability system begins to collapse, " Walker said.
Focus on the actual return you are earning on your money in the Treasury market, for it tells you precisely how strong or weak the U.S. economy will be.
Coolidge told the philanthropists that he was grateful to the group for investing in their own community chest and for paying, when they could, for the poor or weak in their community.
If it wasn't tragic it might be comic, that there is so little consensus among politicians, bankers and economists about whether the weakness in the economy stems more from inadequate supply or weak demand.
Loh said Hong Kong had a choice between a "pragmatic" approach to internationalism, which she likens to that of Singapore, or policies that truly open up to the world, rich or poor, powerful or weak.
The role of boards has been expanding and evolving, and in the wake of investor lawsuits and court decisions arising from failed deals, they've been increasingly targeted for vague oversight, use of inept or conflicted advisors, or weak procedures.
Catherine Nakielny of the Farmers' Union of Wales animal health and welfare committee chairman said farmers needed to be on the lookout for any unusually high animal abortion cases or congenital abnormalities - deformed lambs, swollen heads or weak lambs.
Fidelity Investments and American Funds, among the largest in the category, saw redemptions or weak investor interest compared with competitors, according to an analysis of mutual-fund flows done for The Wall Street Journal by research firm Strategic Insight, a unit of New York-based Asset International.
But badly governed or militarily weak allies haven't led to disaster in the past.
It is hardly news that revenues are lost during a recession or a weak recovery.
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And Germany seems to be able to work with either a strong or a weak euro.
One or more weak members (Greece, Ireland, Portugal, perhaps Spain) might leave, presumably to devalue their new currency.
Games will use the connected device to show dungeon maps or highlight weak points on enemy forces, and Madden will even let you draw plays on your tablet.
Manufacturing also activity declined or remained weak in most districts.
Typically strong bull markets may start the day weak or even gap lower shaking out weak hands at which point buying emerges and bids stocks up into the bell.
Mr Cable warned the UK could not blame its current flagging growth on the turmoil in the eurozone or a weak US economy as many of its problems were "home-grown".
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So far it has worked for the 0157 strain of E.coli, which causes some of the most severe cases of food poisoning - occasionally proving fatal if the victim is an infant, elderly or already weak.
Mr. Nomura said he had instructed the 10 members of his team to prepare a list of possible easing measures and gauge how aggressively the bank was pursuing each one, shouting out "strong'' or "weak'' after each step was announced.
It will be either a government based on dilution and compromise or a weak day-to-day, deal-and-favor arrangement that will see the value of the pound fall on the foreign exchanges and the premium of U.K. gilts over German bunds widen.
We can readily describe sensations of butterflies in the stomach or feeling weak in the knees when things go well, but we are less aware of the ways that kissing helps us to make a reliable assessment of another person.
Rating agencies stated this week that a default in Greece or any other weak European Union country like Portugal, Ireland or Italy would cause them to no longer permit that debt to create other loans.
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