The problem is not that the European Union and other multilateral institutions are too strong it is that they are too weak.

Nevertheless, Afghan institutions of security and justice and the provision of basic services are still extremely weak and dependent on the international community.

Moreover, commodity booms frequently produce ugly politics in countries with weak institutions, leading to costly struggles for resource rents, which are rarely invested wisely.

All three arguments are weak.

The European Union s weak, fractured institutions dispose of less than 2 of eurozone GDP in tax revenues.

Africa's markets are weak not only because of weak infrastructure in terms of roads and telecommunications, but also because of the virtual absence of necessary market institutions, such as market information, grades and standards, and reliable ways to connect buyers and sellers.

Morever, by resuscitating the weak institutions of the Lebanese state, Hezbollah gains important political protection from external attack.

Gangs flourish because weak institutions fail to guarantee and respect the fundamental rights of children and young people.

Unlike Iraq and Afghanistan, democracy is not new to this 60 year old state, but ethnic cleavages, weak institutions, and religious extremism in the North are perennially destabilizing.

Given this weak outlook for the major economies, losses by banks and other financial institutions will continue to grow.

Latin America s economic and social structures remain marked by great inequality, weak institutions, and an abundance of natural resources.

In many countries of the region criminal justice institutions remain weak and, to varying degrees, subject to political influence.

Unfortunately, both are weak, or even wrong.

Throughout the region, participatory mechanisms are weak.

Most of these purchases have been made in Africa, with two thirds taking place in countries where hunger is widespread and institutions for establishing formal land ownership are often weak.

General description In developing countries, institutions for provision of public goods for investment promotion and accessing supply chain networks are often weak or do not exist, which means that market failures are often not addressed.

Corruption thrives when the education level is low, civil society is underdeveloped and the accountability of public institutions very weak.

But few people whether ordinary citizens or internationally oriented economists recognize that our seemingly weak and ineffectual multilateral institutions are the world s best hope for managing and democratizing the global market.

By contrast, when institutions are too weak to offer predictable and acceptable settlements, or to protect existing shares, everyone has an incentive to jockey for a larger slice of the pie.

Elsewhere, political parties are weak or are tools of the regime.

In other instances, those who make no pretence of being bound by the rule of law, such as armed groups and terrorists, are able to flout it because our peacemaking institutions and compliance mechanisms are weak.

There is a need to address a range of obstacles, including weak institutions, deficient infrastructure and trade barriers in key markets.

But the trouble is not just that these global institutions remain weak. It is also that they are inter governmental bodies a collection of member states rather than agents of global citizens.

There are several ways to recapitalize Europe s weak banks.

Weak neutral current interactions are one of the ways in which subatomic particles can interact by means of the weak force.

The State institutions responsible for guaranteeing respect for the rule of law including the police, the justice and prison systems remain particularly weak.

Moderates are repeatedly made to look weak, naïve, and idealistic.

The educational institutions in BiH are mostly public institutions.

State institutions remained weak and, as a result, there were continuous demands on the Mission to provide good offices in situations of all kinds.

These states are electoral underachievers weak political rights despite relative affluence.

These are conserved in electromagnetic interactions, but violated by weak interactions.

It makes the weak force very weak by giving the weak particles a large mass.

Indeed, Yemen is now a bubbling cauldron of jihadis who have flocked there because it, like Afghanistan and Pakistan, has weak, easily manipulated state institutions.

Weak isospin is a complement of the weak hypercharge, which unifies weak interactions with electromagnetic interactions.

Ineffective governments with weak leadership are at the root of the problem.

Unfortunately, private sector incentives for developing new TB interventions are too weak.

The main opposition Socialist Party s weak electoral prospects are also helping Sarkozy.

Weak ties are a broader network, your friends of friends of friends.

My knees are weak through fasting and my flesh faileth of fatness.

Do not be weak , neither sorrow while you are the upper ones , if you are believers .

Do not be weak , neither sorrow while you are the upper ones , if you are believers .

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Indeed, all eurozone members are now experiencing weak economic growth, if not recession.

Weak financial systems in emerging markets are a major obstacle to balanced development.

Allah wishes to lighten for you ( the jurisprudence ) , and humans are created weak .