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Its weakness is somewhat surprising: real incomes are up, and the coalition government that came to power last year has introduced a series of generous welfare measures, including a large increase in the minimum wage, a reduction of the retirement age, and a special top-up pension for women with children.
In a floating exchange rate system, a currency should weaken in the face of chronic weakness in the economy.
The central government’s weakness, continued insurgent violence, growing Iranian influence in Baghdad and with Shiite powerbrokers in the south, and the natural progression of sectarian politics suggest that the new Iraq will be markedly less stable as the year draws to a close.
Sensing Zardari’s weakness, his main rival, Nawaz Sharif, is said to be plotting a political comeback.
But their attempts to conceal the truth about the past only reveal their weakness and their shamelessness.
Labor laws protecting women from such discrimination are nowadays abandoned, weakened, or are disregarded by employers because of the weakness of the postcommunist state.
Perhaps an even more important factor in the weakness of these newly democratic governments is declining public identification with the state.
After years of corruption scandals, political dramas, and protest marches, this was manna from heaven – a story combining cricket, the national obsession, with vice, the national weakness.
Weakness in the rest of the world implies a stronger dollar, which will invariably weaken US growth.
In fact, the secret to OPEC’s survival is its weakness, not its strength.
At that point, self-inflicted domestic political weakness collided with the fiscal constraints of the euro rescue.
Likewise, many people have been wondering if the weakness that followed the equity and real-estate crash in Japan at the beginning of the 1990’s is relevant to our experience today.
The elite can be remarkably resilient, retaining the power to strike back at the first sign of weakness.
If the Russian-backed separatists view Ukraine's defensive capacity as a serious weakness, there will be little to compel them not to push forward in pursuit of their ambitions.
Gravity's weakness makes it very difficult to measure its quantum effects; as a result, we have no experimental data to guide theoretical physicists in the development of the missing theory.
A mixture of instability, government weakness, and ideology in countries such as Yemen, Libya, Somalia, and Nigeria are providing fertile territory for terrorists to organize, train, and mount operations – much as they did in Afghanistan did a decade ago.
This possibility highlights the weakness of the argument that abortion, too, is wrong because it destroys a genetically unique human being.
Russia is a global player, so the EU’s weakness is Russia’s strength.
Fiscal weakness, a resetting of real-estate values, and lower consumption all point to the potential for long-term structural unemployment.
While Rousseff’s government is largely responsible for the recent bout of cyclical weakness and social upheaval, Brazil’s problems are rooted in a broader unwillingness to shake off the yoke of policies adopted during more than two decades of military rule.
But the primary causes for domestic economic weakness in Japan, the US, the United Kingdom, and the eurozone are not global in origin.
In fact, a fundamental foreign-policy weakness, especially in the West, is the assumption that political solutions alone provide a sensible path to the future.
These three writers implicitly recognize that liberalism's weakness is revealed at those moments when even "thin" loyalty is impossible, when there is no chance for institutional compromise, and when a modus vivendi cannot be sustained.
The new regulatory model also fails to address a persistent weakness of the single European financial market: how to pay the costs (or “share the burden”) when a multinational bank fails.
At the moment, the most glaring weakness is the so-called “yen carry trade.”
Its leaders seem to have interpreted Obama’s attempts to engage with them, down-playing bilateral aggravations, as a sign of American weakness in the wake of Wall Street’s crash and military reverses in Iraq and Afghanistan.
But the macroeconomic weakness in the US now goes beyond the decreased supply of credit.
Instead of actually doing something constructive about Europe’s essential problem --reforming expensive welfare states to ensure global competitiveness--Europe’s political leaders are hiding behind straw man arguments about “ultra liberal Anglo Saxon models,” and pressuring the ECB to lower interest rates as if European economic weakness were Frankfurt’s fault.
Beyond a military intervention against Islamist militants in Mali, Hollande achieved little on the international stage, precisely because he lacked credibility at home, owing to France’s economic weakness.
Second, the idea that emerging-market economies could fully decouple from economic weakness in advanced economies was far-fetched: recession in the eurozone, near-recession in the United Kingdom and Japan in 2011-2012, and slow economic growth in the United States were always likely to affect emerging-market performance negatively – via trade, financial links, and investor confidence.
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