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.
"Time and again, we have seen poor design, poor implementation and weak cost control, " he said.
Compared with their peers in developed countries, Latin America's top ten cities are unsafe, suffer endemic housing shortages, poor schooling and weak health services.
The idea that the wealthy or the powerful or the famous should receive preferential treatment under the law, treatment that is different from that accorded to the poor and the weak, is anathema to everything that is great and good and special about the United States.
As for Miss Megawati, she deserves credit for overseeing a restoration of relative calm and economic growth in Indonesia, but voters see her as a poor communicator and a weak administrator who has done little to rein in the country's rampant corruption.
It helps explain la Francophonie's appeal to poor, weak and isolated countries.
They are still gun-shy about borrowers with poor credit quality and weak assets, but they are very intent on lending to strong borrowers with good properties as collateral.
Europe suffers from poor demographics and a weak currency structure.
But it risks reinforcing the rift between an assembly that is perceived as representing poor, small and weak countries, and a council on which powerful, or once-powerful, countries have a disproportionate say.
Yet no matter who actually placed the trades, this loss not only reflects poor risk management and weak internal controls but could also reveal fraud if it can be established that trading losses were intentionally hidden, as has been alleged (and is subject to investigation by regulatory authorities).
Mr. MEYERS: Well, I suppose the simple power of the theme and the idea that a man who is weak and poor and old, and has gone through tremendous physical hardships, including having his hands sort of torn up by the rope and the struggle, does in fact endure, and prevail, even though he's lost what he's fought for, because the sharks have eaten the marlin.
Due to a combination of executive hubris, poor board oversight, and weak risk management controls, MF Global collapsed.
This includes behavior that can be commonplace in small children, like clumsiness, disorganized motor planning, poor self-dressing and weak communication skills.
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In it, the congressman asked the SEC to submit detailed responses by June 11 to a number of concerns regarding the fund industry, including charges of poor disclosure of costs and weak board oversight.
He is a poor weak impulsive man and he prays to me to defend him and make him strong.
By year 4, though, James began taking heat, from nitpickers who latched onto his (occasionally) poor dribbling and (relatively) weak 3-point shooting, to critics who pointed out his inability to win an NBA championship.
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Roelie Post, who as a European Commission official dealt with adoption in the run-up to Romania's entry to the European Union, has written a book on her experience of dealing with what she sees as a powerful adoption lobby that preys on weak and poor countries.
The 32 elected community school boards, which were especially weak in poor neighbourhoods and often corrupt, will go.
But are there cranky little people who think the rover's camera is weak and has poor battery life, and "could have done it better" in their basements?
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The grimmer news is that Bosnia's federal institutions remain weak and their leadership poor.
Weak financial markets and continued poor performance from the unit have kept that initiative in limbo.
Because the relationship between being a low-wage worker and living in a poor family is remarkably weak.
Items at the bottom of the list include improving the standard of living in poor countries, helping to spread democracy and protecting weak nations against foreign aggression.
"People are going to realize that Qwest is too weak, " says Standard and Poor's Research analyst Todd Rosenbluth.
Experts blame that record on the age of the aircraft, weak government controls, poor pilot training and a cost-cutting mentality.
Jermaine Johnson was a lively presence on the right flank and forced a decent save from the excellent Julian Speroni, who also held a weak Mark Beevers header and a poor Luke Varney strike.
The Yeltsin government attempted to play such a role, but it was too weak, too disorganized, and too poor to do so effectively.
International health officials have long expressed concern about the emergence of unexplained diseases in poor countries like Cambodia, which suffer from weak medical infrastructure and often lack the diagnostic skills and technology needed to manage potential outbreaks.
The rule of law applies to the weak and the strong, the rich and the poor, the powerful and the powerless.
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If you have a poor or weak employment brand you have to work extra hard, and often the best people go elsewhere.
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