The FARC, while severely weakened and mostly confined to remote areas close to Colombia's borders, is still capable of damage.
Defense was a stronger contributor to sales during the sub-prime crisis, when demand for jetliners weakened while military demand was at a peak.
Amazingly our economy is at a screaching halt yet we do not hear the outcry about gasoline prices which have remained high while demand has weakened.
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The Nikkei 225 stock average sank 0.7 per cent in the half-hour after opening on Monday, while the yen weakened slightly to about 94.25 to the dollar.
The book, based on information collected before 24 November, also says that consumer spending has weakened, while lending has contracted.
While the storm has weakened as it moves north, it remains a dangerous storm that continues to produce heavy rains.
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There was some more weak economic data coming out of China overnight, as the Chinese non-manufacturing purchasing managers index fell in September, while consumer sentiment also weakened last month.
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With Geraint Lewis and Hywel Jenkins gone the back row is weakened, while the loss of Andrew Le Chevalier and Johnny Marsters leaves scant cover in the front row.
Fixed asset investment, for example, has weakened materially, while inventory conditions, particularly in cyclical industries, have deteriorated.
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The company has so far been unable to capitalize on the growing mobile market while remaining vulnerable to the weakened consumer PC market.
But while our economy may be weakened and our confidence shaken, though we are living through difficult and uncertain times, tonight I want every American to know this: We will rebuild, we will recover, and the United States of America will emerge stronger than before.
It temporarily weakened below hurricane strength while passing Cuba, then regained hurricane strength as it approached the U.S. on October 27.
France sought to impose a monarchy over democratic Mexico while U.S. foreign power weakened during the War Between the States.
America's economy weakened, hitting car sales, while buyers turned their noses up at the firm's new models.
The euro weakened in response to the report while peripheral government bond spreads continued their blow out against German bunds.
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While the latter have been hard hit by weakened advertising rates and declining viewership, cable outlets continue to benefit from the dual-revenue streams of advertising and subscriber fees.
While many retirees from the private sector have seen retirement benefits weakened in recent years, retirees at public pension funds largely have avoided such cuts.
And though I will never be satisfied while people are out of work and our financial system is weakened, we can be confident that the storms of the past two years are beginning to break.
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His expectation is that Mr Clinton, weakened by scandal, will let things be, while he himself continues to mollify his hard right with new settlements and pacify his soft centre with professions of loyalty to Oslo.
The prime minister's spokeswoman said the government wanted to "support business, encourage growth, while at the same time ensuring that employees rights to work were not weakened".
Historically there has been little correlation between the dollar and oil prices, and while the relationship strengthened last year following the credit crisis, it has since weakened again.
While SNS's operations were thought to be mostly profitable, its finances had weakened to the point that they were below legal solvency limits.
The yen weakened 3.5 percent against the dollar, to 96.16 yen, while Tokyo's Nikkei stock index rose 2.2 percent to 12, 634.54.
The U.S. dollar weakened slightly Thursday, adding 1 cent per ounce to gains in spot silver, while cutting declines in spot gold by 60 cents, according to the widely-watched Kitco Gold Index.
While the dollar generally rallies in times of market tension, analysts at Nomura found the correlation weakened, leading them to conclude that risk aversion is not as pronounced as U.S. equity markets suggest and that, unless the situation in Greece significantly deteriorates, the dollar will still look weak amid falling equities.
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The alternative is that its dramatically weakened liquidity could prompt the company to file bankruptcy in the coming months to preserve cash while it attempts to engineer its recovery.
Wal-Mart's international performance further underscores the trend of U.S. firms benefiting from the weakened dollar, as well as becoming increasingly dependent on their international business to provide growth while domestic performance sags.
Yet when unlike 25 years ago, last summer the Olmert government led Israel to defeat in Lebanon, it weakened the standing of administration officials who view Israel as a strategic ally and oppose the Saudis, while strengthening Israel's Baker-inspired foes who view Israel as a strategic liability.
While acknowledging that the reasons for inventory accumulation make them tricky to interpret, I would nevertheless argue that the economy weakened considerably in the 4th quarter of 2011.
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