Sami preyed on Layla's openness and vulnerability.

But India made a strength out of its major weakness.

Its fiscal weakness limits its ability to act as global policeman.

In doing so, they dramatically increased their financial vulnerability.

For there is an annulling of a foregoing commandment because of its weakness and uselessness

For there is verily a disannulling of the commandment going before for the weakness and unprofitableness thereof.

However, its weaknesses also became apparent during the mid to late 1990 s.

In fact, the secret to OPEC s survival is its weakness, not its strength.

Their financial crisis is the main reason for their weakness.

Women have, due to their physical vulnerability, an increased risk for infection.

In a global competition, a superpower s competitors are bound to exploit its weaknesses.

North Korea has amplified its power by playing its weak hand audaciously.

This external dependence increases their vulnerability to external economic threats and shocks.

It is the result of compromise, the art of the possible, which is both its strong and its weak point.

The nation state, with both its strengths and weaknesses, is alive and well.

Paradoxically, the numbers for the AIDS epidemic reveal a harsh reality women's ignorance of their own vulnerability.

In the end, Europe paid a lot of money only to expose its own weakness.

Weakened by this crisis, they are the first to suffer from the cuts in financial flows.

In fact, Olmert s weak and discredited government may yet survive.

Instead, it should be revealing its weaknesses and vulnerabilities to gain Western understanding.

Americans now see Europe as compounding its military weakness by losing its leading position in science.

But the organization was weak and inefficient, largely owing to the United States refusal to ratify its charter.

Pluralist democracy is India s greatest strength, but its current manner of operation is the source of its major weaknesses.

America s leadership in world affairs began to weaken with the unilateralism of Bush, and today s economic problems are reinforcing this tendency.

Rapid environmental change associated with insecurity and losses of livelihoods undermine the resilience of societies and increase their vulnerability.

Africa s geographical position, sensitive water resources, unsustainable agricultural methods, and exploitation by foreign and other private companies increased its vulnerability.

The British response should prompt other industrial economies, above all the US, to tackle their long term fiscal weaknesses.

The Committee urges the State party to introduce specific poverty alleviation measures aimed at improving the situation of women to eliminate their vulnerability.

SMEs in the distribution sector have difficulty in securing credit because of their organizational weaknesses, and also because they are not deemed to be creditworthy.

Their structural weakness constrains their competitiveness and their ability to participate effectively in the international economic and trading system, while the process of globalization compounds the risk of their marginalization.

The speakers also raised the question of whether concentration in the service sector had been caused by the strength of developing countries in that sector or by their weakness in the manufacturing sector.

To make up for its weaknesses (few and obsolete fighters) the FiAF mainly focused on attacking enemy bombers from directions that were disadvantageous to the enemy.

The military political crises which gripped the country throughout the 1990s and on into the early part of the twenty first century are largely responsible for the impoverishment and growing vulnerability of a large cross section of the population.

The BRICs (we might rewrite the term as Big and Really Imperial Countries) project power more easily, but they also need to project power to compensate for their weaknesses.

Maximizing it requires not only that individual countries address their weaknesses and rebalance their sources of growth, but also that they build and strengthen the regional institutions needed to manage economic integration.

Call this the safe haven curse as long as the US remains the safest port in any storm, it faces no immediate pressure to address its weaknesses.

This interdependent relationship means that the US is not so powerful, that it can readily ignore the wishes of key states, and it is here that its apparent weakness is actually strength.

In the end, Europe paid a lot of money only to expose its own weakness. How much worse can things get before the EU abandons its counter productive policy?

While this armour was effective against cuts or blows, their weak points could be exploited by long tapered swords or other weapons designed for the purpose, such as pollaxes and halberds.

As it basks in its new status as an economic superpower the dragon that is outpacing Asia s tigers as well as the donkeys of the West China is mistakenly downplaying its own serious structural weaknesses.

Indeed, to get into the Great Power maritime game, China needs Gwadar to redress its main weakness the absence of a naval anchor in the Indian Ocean region, where it plans to have an important military presence.

Known as the Barcelona process, this initiative proved weak and ineffective, because much of its funding was diverted to Eastern Europe for the EU s ambitious enlargement drive.

But the organization was weak and inefficient, largely owing to the United States refusal to ratify its charter. As a result, it failed to accomplish its primary objective of preventing another world war.

We do not want a United Nations that makes States dependent on the system or on peace operations for their existence and survival, operations that over the years have been weak with regard to building national capacities for autonomous and sustainable State administration.

They noted, however, that although the special circumstances and vulnerabilities of SIDS were recognized and acknowledged at Rio and Barbados, much more needs to be done at the international level to assist SIDS in overcoming their unique problems.