Either Greece's relatively weak and small private sector has to be supercharged such that it starts generating current account surpluses that would allow the country to service the enormous debts - which seems unlikely to happen any time soon.
Saddled with out-of-date factories, over-reliance on the North American market and unfashionable trucks, a poor reputation for quality, a dearth of new models in the pipeline and insufficient resources to fund future power-train development, Chrysler is too weak and too small to survive on its own.
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.
But the FDP, like the Lib Dems in England, which became his adopted country in 1988, was small and weak, and not quite what he wanted.
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 effect of income, as in other studies, is small and statistically weak.
Spokesmen for the small and electorally weak parties linked to Protestant paramilitaries say publicly that they wish their communities would take complaints about local crime to the police, instead of demanding paramilitary action.
If a small and economically weak country has the courage to subject its two largest banks, whose activities account for much of its GDP, to the bail-in mechanism, there is no reason why the same process cannot be applied in the United States.
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He notes the federal prosecutor is accusing the lawmakers of breaking laws, not skirting weak ones, and that the accused represent a small slice of the 213 state legislators.
With a few exceptions in Africa, private business, especially the job-creating small and medium sort, is weak.
Confidence has risen among Scottish small businesses despite rising costs and weak trading conditions, according to a new survey.
Between the recent GDP report, Taxmaggedon, weak consumer spending and other factors, growth in the small business economy is lackluster.
Small businesses also sought fewer loans as weak sales and difficulties attracting customers caused many to pull back on expansion plans.
Like Muns Welding, many small companies are just holding on, battered by fragile demand and weak order books.
Experts say that the military has been widely corrupted by violent and well-financed drug gangs - and because Guinea-Bissau is a small country, its institutions are weak.
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Other factors that contribute to false results are small sample sizes, studies that show weak effects (such as a drug which works only on a small number of patients) and poorly designed studies that allow the researchers to fish among their data until they find some kind of effect, regardless of what they started out trying to prove.
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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Although Bayer's drug business accounts for a third of the German giant's annual sales, it is still small by the standards of pharmaceutical firms and its near-term drug pipeline is weak.
"They have been widely corrupted by these violent and well-financed drug gangs and Guinea-Bissau is a very small country, its vulnerable, its institutions are weak, " Bruce Bagley, an expert on drug-trafficking at the University of Miami, told the BBC's Newsday programme.
Such strains would have tested any country, let alone a small one with a violent history, a population made up of 18 jealous religious minorities and a weak central state built on power-sharing between them.
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