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Zionism was too weak, and the enemies of the Jews too strong, for the murder of six million Jews in the Holocaust to be avoided.
The sources of public administration failure include lack of professionalism in the civil service; vague, complex, and confusing legal rules;
weak
management of government finances; poor distribution of tasks across levels of government; lack of transparency in government processes, and the difficulty of holding officials accountable for their actions.
Nepotism, patronage within the family circle, is thus a natural way for anybody in power, or aspiring to it, to strengthen his support in societies where other institutions are
weak
or non-existent, or where the destruction of existing institutions forms part of the power-grabber's intentions.
Policymakers would be tempted to resort to helicopter money whenever growth was not as strong as they would like, instead of implementing difficult structural reforms that address the underlying causes of
weak
economic performance.
That is a transition that Greece and Argentina, with their financial instability, poor infrastructure, and
weak
education systems, have never made.
But at the moment, onerous spending rules and
weak
financial commitments are tying the hands of those working to prevent the next serious disease outbreak.
In a context of
weak
institutions, persistent inequalities, and high levels of marginalization and exclusion, new growth opportunities for organized crime have emerged.
Transparency and accountability are weak, and there is little enforcement of rules.
EU leaders are weak, divided, and seemingly incapable of setting out a credible vision of the future benefits that European integration could provide, without which they cannot rally popular support and convince recalcitrant governments to bear their fair share of current costs.
Unfortunately, however, when the main beneficiaries are the poor, corporations are powerful, and governments are
weak
or corrupt, good environmental practices are far from guaranteed.
Russia’s central national interest is primarily economic, as it reels from the combined blows of the collapse in oil prices,
weak
European growth, and Western financial sanctions.
Though the renminbi was once kept artificially weak, there are now many economists who believe that it is actually overvalued.
The old centralized political structure built around Nehru's Congress Party collapsed in the mid-1990s, giving way to a succession of
weak
multi-party governments.
From companies exploiting
weak
enforcement of rules to countries hiding behind short-term definitions of national interests to consumers letting supermarkets get away with unsustainable purchasing, we need a renewed debate on the future of our oceans and the life that they support.
Unfortunately, several eurozone countries allowed fiscal deficits to grow in good times, rather than only when demand was
weak.
A
weak
interim national government – or a United Nations or foreign occupying administration – should not attempt to implement policies such as privatizing national resources when doing so might incite political resistance.
From the current Israeli government’s perspective, then, the correct strategy is to keep the Palestinian government on the West Bank
weak
and off balance, without quite bringing it down, and to contain Hamas with periodic displays of military power (while destroying long-range missiles that can do serious damage to Israel).
One argument that economists use is that higher prices are due to the
weak
dollar.
Because oil is priced in dollars, a
weak
dollar makes oil cheaper to users in other countries, which increases global demand.
All three arguments are
weak.
Most countries have the basic market infrastructure and regulations, but enforcement and supervision is often
weak.
For the rest of the world, and for the Islamic State, it creates the impression that America is weak, divided, and unable to lead.
Moreover, Russia is today far too
weak
to threaten them, as the Russian army's disastrous misadventure in Chechnya demonstrates.
Given that the US has experienced yet another year of
weak
performance, one might have thought that this growth opportunity would have resonated on the American side of the S&ED table.
The Fed was right to adopt new expansionary monetary measures in the face of a
weak
US recovery.
Even if the Kremlin is not particularly happy with the planned EU-Ukraine Association Agreement, it has little reason to worry as long as Yanukovych remains a
weak
president in a divided country.
Where parties are weak, there can be no party discipline.
In individual states protection of the
weak
is attained by equal application of the rule of law.
But nor can there be any comparison to the Great Recession in terms of
weak
productivity growth.
They mistakenly believe that yen appreciation during the mid-1980’s caused Japan’s
weak
economic performance in the 1990’s.
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