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 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.
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.
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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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.
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.
If I were to ask you which generation of employees is experiencing the most financial hardship, you might think of the Baby Boomers approaching retirement after a decade of weak stock and real estate markets or the Millennials squeezed between poor job prospects and high student loan payments.
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Experts blame that record on the age of the aircraft, weak government controls, poor pilot training and a cost-cutting mentality.
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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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.
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).
Weak financial markets and continued poor performance from the unit have kept that initiative in limbo.
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.
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.
The 32 elected community school boards, which were especially weak in poor neighbourhoods and often corrupt, will go.
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 grimmer news is that Bosnia's federal institutions remain weak and their leadership poor.
Because the relationship between being a low-wage worker and living in a poor family is remarkably weak.
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.
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.
If you have a poor or weak employment brand you have to work extra hard, and often the best people go elsewhere.
In these and other developing countries with weak capital markets, underfunded public schooling, and inadequate judicial systems and contract enforcement, the poor are likely to be elbowed out of access to jobs, credit, and other opportunities to be productive.
The Yeltsin government attempted to play such a role, but it was too weak, too disorganized, and too poor to do so effectively.
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