When one or both of those are interrupted, like during a natural disaster, the weakness of the JIT system is exposed.

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Mr Clarke said re-offending was the "biggest weakness" of the justice system, and that re-offending rates had to be brought down to a "more respectable level".

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Guillain Barre syndrome is a disease of the nervous system which causes numbness and weakness and a degree of paralysis.

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Indeed, whatever problems Sri Lanka's political system suffers from, the weakness of the presidency, which is already directly responsible for over 90 institutions, is not one of them.

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It has been a system of amazing efficiency, its biggest past weakness being that it sometimes (as in the dot-com "bubble") creates too many companies of dubious viability.

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Their weakness puts India's entire banking system at risk, because all of the finance companies clear their transactions through commercial banks.

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The ECB had already warned about the risk that economic weakness would hurt banks financially in its most recent assessment of the health of the financial system in December.

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