But those same Democrats and supporting liberal organizations suddenly go from weak and negligible to powerful and cohesive when it comes to confronting DeLay, one of the most powerful men in Washington.

NPR: DeLay's Precarious Strategy for Survival

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.

ECONOMIST: Responsibility to protect

The PC area, especially on the consumer side, has been a weak spot as tablets and more powerful smartphones have likely been resulting in reduced demand.

FORBES: S&P's View On U.S. Debt Downgrade's Impact On Tech

Countries like to influence their neighbors, and large and powerful countries that are surrounded by small and weak countries are usually capable of doing this.

FORBES: Obama is not Appeasing Russia

First, the filibuster showed just how weak and limited our supposedly vast and powerful partisan categories really turn out to be.

FORBES: Rand Paul's Filibuster: A Three Part Triumph

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.

ECONOMIST: International adoption

It was just the kind of deal, consummated with a firm handshake over weak coffee, that one would expect from the rich and powerful who inhabit the forum's corridors.

FORBES: Magazine Article

The rule of law applies to the weak and the strong, the rich and the poor, the powerful and the powerless.

CNN: Transcript: White House Deputy Counsel Mills' statement

Right is right and wrong is wrong - and it doesn't matter if you are rich or poor, powerful or weak.

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America's experience in 1937 and Japan's in 1997 are powerful evidence that ill-timed tax rises can tip weak economies back into recession.

ECONOMIST: America's economy