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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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This summer in Guinea, for example, citizens frustration with widespread poverty and weak institutions, memories of ethnic persecution, and distrust of unfamiliar democratic processes fueled violent protests.

Not surprisingly, these states typically have weak conflict management institutions patchy law enforcement, limited adherence to democratic principles, and few meaningful checks and balances on the government.

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.

For that reason, Europe now requires leadership not from a weak EU Commission or from any other European institutions, but from the capitals of its major member countries.

Several decades ago, the American political scientist Samuel P. Huntington argued that economic prosperity in developing countries with weak governing institutions would not necessarily lead to political stability.

Similarly, Dani Rodrik of Harvard University has found that the countries that experienced the sharpest declines in growth after 1975 had divided societies and weak conflict management institutions.

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The argument that strengthening Europe s common institutions would reduce national sovereignty appears very weak, for the simple reason that in today s globalized economy sovereignty is more apparent than real.

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Weak community participation.

Coordination is 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.

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.

This trend was accompanied by the fact that these societies were marked by a high degree of inequality, as well as unstable economies, weak political parties, fragmented oppositions, and fragile institutions.

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.

Unless the regulated financial system is systematically audited, with weak entities stabilized through capital injections, asset purchases, or mergers, or liquidated quickly, the overhang of distressed institutions will persist, constraining lending.

There's the weak brain. And then there's my weak brain, which is too too absolutely too weak to understand what the fuck she was talking about.

In other words, global markets suffer from weak governance, and therefore from weak popular legitimacy.

Who is weak, and I am not weak? who is offended, and I burn not?

Weak States, Poor Countries

Only the Weak Survive

The banks remain weak.

Weak America Weakened Europe

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.

To the weak I became as weak, that I might gain the weak. I have become all things to all men, that I may by all means save some.