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Expansion, for example, brings weak clubs into the league and inflates the win totals of top tier clubs (or sometimes there are just more weak clubs anyway, without expansion).
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Indeed, public figures sometimes seem not just weak but malevolent.
ECONOMIST: Bulgaria, Romania and the EU
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But the episode has drawn attention to the ways in which the United States, omnipotent though it may superficially seem in the post-cold-war age, is sometimes in fact quite weak.
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Rising seas pose some of the biggest emerging challenges to the world, as coastal urban areas face higher water and dangerous storms, protected only by weak, sometimes crumbling 20th-century flood defenses.
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New Labour's massive majorities in 1997 and 2002 came not from focus groups and presentational brilliance but substance - from a long line of revisionism and modernisation that started in the post-war period and continued sometimes strong, often weak, until Tony Blair and Gordon Brown finally re-invented progressive politics in Britain in the mid-1990's.
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The farmer, who sported a bright gold wristwatch that signifies inordinate wealth (and sometimes indicates Taliban ties), retorted the ministry was "weak, " so the American "friends" needed to do it.
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Sometimes, it has one imposed upon it from without, when a society becomes so weak that it is eventually taken over by a foreign power.
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Even then the weak, the disabled, the unemployed and the poor were ignored, sidelined and sometimes trampled in the rush for wealth.
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