Thus, Colombia was converted into a weak state submerged in a sea of anarchy.
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Further, Bernanke lamented the weak state of the job market and said policy-makers stand ready to act as needed.
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Economists say subdued demand, which reflects the weak state of the economy, has led to the fall in the core inflation rate.
"But any disruption to business is the very last thing that the UK economy needs in its current extremely weak state, " he added.
Daimler has the technical know-how to develop lean and clean engines, but with the financials in such a weak state it cannot tie up the capital.
Airlines find themselves in a difficult situation, having to juggle high gasoline prices with low pricing power given the weak state of consumption in a fragile economic environment.
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"Not only do we need to wash the sticky substance off the birds, but a lot of them arrived in quite a weak state struggling to eat and drink, " he said.
To be sure, the weak state of the euro-zone economy and the lingering debt crisis in southern Europe may still derail the stock-market recovery, said Jerome Vinerier, a Brussels-based market analyst at IG Markets.
Ed Balls, the National Institute for Economic and Social Research and some others think the weak state of the economy is partly Mr Osborne's fault, or at least something he ought to have taken more account of in drawing up his original plan.
The bigger point that Mr Cable is making here is that Mr Osborne has defined his strategy in terms of the current, structural deficit: that is, borrowing that is not due simply to the weak state of the economy and that is NOT used for public investment.
Since the start of the fiscal year in April, India's industrial output has contracted in six of the 10 months till January, reflecting the weak state of the economy, which has been battered by a mix of domestic problems including high inflation and wide fiscal and current account deficits.
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.
There is but one precedent for a strong prime minister and a weak head of state.
He is not eligible to stand again, but, given the weak and fragmented state of the opposition, whoever Frelimo chooses to succeed him is almost certain to win the next presidential election in 2014.
In conjunction with weak unions, the state's high unemployment rate enables employers to keep down wages.
The weak political and economic state of the European Union gives the United States an opportunity to create our second global economic surge.
California's governorship is a pretty weak one: the state's government is a mess of competing districts, counties and cities, with much of the budget mandated by ballot initiatives.
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That, in turn, could have repercussions in Bosnia, where the Bosnian Serbs would rather unite with Serbia proper, at the expense of the unitary Bosnian state, weak though it is.
The burning question is whether the scale of Bankia's hole provides clues about the state of other weak lenders.
Indeed, in the rural areas where acid violence is most common, the writ of the state is so weak, and misogyny so entrenched, that women come to believe their suffering is their fault.
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The first is that the state has an extremely weak governor, one of the least powerful in the nation.
Surprisingly, few individual gun runners face jail time because of weak international laws and relationships with state intelligence agencies.
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If the state is honest, but weak, the Bank can try to train judges and equip civil servants.
Nor can it reverse the deteriorating state fiscal crisis caused by weak economies and exacerbated by insanely high pensions and out of control spending policies.
Those groups would be widely credited with a Kerry win in Ohio, a GOP-dominated state where Democrats have a particularly weak party apparatus.
The links between federal, state and local government are also weak.
Business across the region remains intertwined with the state while the wider commercial society is weak.
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