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Republican candidates in the US are already using the recent murder spree in Paris to blame President Barack Obama, and by extension any future Democratic candidate, for being
weak.
But, if PTAs were the only game in town, the implicit constraint on trade barriers against third countries provided by the WTO’s Article 24, which is
weak
but real, would disappear altogether.
It is necessary because persistently
weak
global growth is unlikely to provide the solid external demand for Chinese exports that it once did.
By contrast, the
weak
national Iraqi defense forces are believed to be doing the bidding of the Shia majority.
Failure to do so leaves everyone
weak
and vulnerable.
Like Dayan before him, Barak believes that Israel, a “villa in the jungle,” is forced to go to war every few years to consolidate its deterrence in an unmerciful Middle East neighborhood, where “there is no pity for the weak, nor a second chance for the defeated.”
If the West’s response to the crisis in Ukraine has been
weak
and misguided, the reaction of the world’s rising powers has been one of willful blindness.
And, in keeping with past experience,
weak
sentiment has reduced capital flows to emerging-market economies in general, especially those like Turkey, Indonesia, and Brazil that have large external financing needs or face upcoming elections with uncertain outcomes.
While German political leaders now declare their allegiance to the eurozone, opinion polls in Germany show that public support for the euro is very
weak.
Making matters worse, despite considerable gains in the last quarter of 2013, employment growth is far too
weak
to make a significant dent in joblessness.
Fiscal policy is in a similarly
weak
position.
Income inequality was rising dramatically, environmental damage was worsening rapidly, and inflation was leading to
weak
real-income growth for poor households.
Outside the Middle East, the United States has scaled back its relations with Egypt since the government’s
weak
response to the attack on the US embassy in September, which signaled a rapid deterioration in bilateral relations.
The novelty of the world since 2008 is that, for the first time in more than a generation, advanced countries are experiencing debt crises – and starting to look like poor countries with
weak
institutions.
In particular, thermal electricity plants have replaced the country’s nuclear plants – offline since the Great East Japan Earthquake in 2011 – and the
weak
yen has hit the import bill for oil and gas hard.
The unexpectedly
weak
performance of Geert Wilders’ Freedom Party (PVV) in the Dutch election on March 15 seems to suggest this.
If the newest farm gadgets and tools are marketed only on social media, as is often the case, uptake in rural areas will remain
weak.
As a result, compliance with TB drug treatment is particularly weak, paving the way for the emergence of multidrug-resistant (MDR) TB, which can no longer be treated by conventional therapeutic regimes.
Unfortunately, private-sector incentives for developing new TB interventions are too
weak.
I had assumed, when I made my projections in 2010, that the region’s poor demographics and
weak
productivity would prevent it from growing at more than 1.5% a year.
As the Mumbai attack five years ago and the recent LoC incidents have shown, the gap between Pakistan’s official statements and its military’s actions suggests that the civilian government, even if sincere, is too
weak
to control its own security apparatus.
The
weak
real economy and job market, together with high debt ratios, suggest the need to exit monetary stimulus slowly.
Either the Fed pursues the first goal by keeping rates low for longer and normalizing them very slowly, in which case a huge credit and asset bubble would emerge in due course; or the Fed focuses on preventing financial instability and increases the policy rate much faster than
weak
growth and high unemployment would otherwise warrant, thereby halting an already-sluggish recovery.
It is the
weak
nerve center of a flabby semi-state, with almost defenseless frontiers, where humanitarian rhetoric masks spinelessness.
A few days later, I discharged the still
weak
but recovering four-year-old from the hospital.
Putin’s Russia is weak, tawdry, and corrupt – and underserving as an Olympic host.
Europe's low productivity reflects a simple statistical fact that fatally undermines relatively high productivity per hours worked:
weak
participation in the active labor force means that Europeans work a very low number of hours.
It was innovation, and high productivity, not a
weak
currency, that enabled German and Japanese goods to conquer the world.
As was true for Germany and the Deutsche Mark and remains true for Japan and the yen, a strong dollar has not historically caused
weak
US growth.
But her Brexit strategy, in which she has avoided taking any clear positions, has transformed the party into something even worse: a dishonest, divided,
weak
political cabal whose decisions could prove lethal.
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