They sense their creditors at the EU and the IMF have a weak hand.
The Fed is like a poker player who has been dealt a weak hand.
The McCain camp did a masterful job of playing a weak hand over the past week.
"AMR is playing a weak hand, " says Brian Harris, airline analyst at Salomon Smith Barney.
Hence the popularity of Russia's wily foreign minister, Yevgeny Primakov, who takes the credit at home for playing a weak hand well, undercutting American policy from Iraq to Kosovo.
The Austrian's low shot towards the bottom corner was within Rensing's reach, but he only got a very weak hand to it and helped the ball into the back of the net.
As the envoy of a defeated power at the Congress of Vienna, he played a weak hand with determination and skill, securing France within its pre-revolutionary borders and achieving a part at least of his vision for Europe.
Dealt a weak hand, Boehner managed to 99% outfox, on tax policy, a president who had the massive apparatus of the executive branch, the Senate majority, and a left-leaning national elite media whooping it up for a whopping tax increase.
Most likely though, the Administration knew its hand was weak.
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And without that card, Mr Rajapaksa's hand looks weak.
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His injured hand proved too weak for the job, and he fell to the floor, severely but not mortally wounded.
After a disappointing election result, which forced her to form a coalition with the Social Democrats, Ms Merkel's hand was admittedly weak.
It allows you to hand-wave weak sales or bad reviews and blame outside factors like pirates or server failures in the event the game struggles.
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The U.S. presents a mixed picture with high unemployment rate and a weak housing market on one hand and growing consumer spending on the other.
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Caterpillar, on the other hand, suggested a weak global economy is getting better.
Elsewhere tighter budgets are at hand, even in weak economies.
But the hand that Poland was dealt was so weak that disaster loomed whether it was played well or badly.
On the one hand we have the young, dispossessed and weak protesters.
Thus a weak central government may find it hard to persuade the Kurds and Shias to hand over the Sunnis' fair share of oil earnings, whatever the constitution says.
Investors would be buying Russia not because the dollar is weak, but because oil is strong, even if the two often do go hand in hand.
The MIT mathematicians, that is, sidestepped a weak spot that had plagued cryptographers ever since the days of the ancient Greeks: How do sender and receiver hand off a key without risking that their communication channel or their courier will be compromised in some way?
Fire is weak to water, wood is weak to fire, and so on and so forth, making team formation an interesting task for each dungeon at hand.
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