Families are increasingly vulnerable.

It's important to Blanche. Her little weakness.

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.

Some of its weaknesses derive, paradoxically, from the same characteristics.

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.

So I think that, if people understand how much we're starting to depend on the Internet, and how vulnerable it is, we could get focused on just wanting this other system to exist, and I think if enough people say, Yeah, I would like to use it,

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.

Moreover, the middle income status of many small island developing States camouflages the extent of their vulnerability.

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.

If we place a single grain of rice on the first square of a chessboard, double this and place 2 grains on the second, double again and place 4 on the third, double again and place 8 on the fourth, and continue this way, putting on each square twice the number of grains than were on the previous one, by the time we reach the final square, we need an astronomical number of grains

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.

In some of the small island developing countries, aid disbursements have in fact been falling in real terms, and the creditworthiness of smaller economies has been diminished by their vulnerability.

Oil used to be one of the forces holding Iraq together now it is the most significant cause of the country's disintegration.

The family is essential to the world's future, it is the cradle of the generations to come. Everywhere, its strength and weakness reflect the fabric of larger society.

Why they do not work in certain countries relates to their weaknesses in terms of human capital, social base and political commitment to rule based approaches.

Not only were they implementing major policy reforms but their vulnerability was in many cases compounded by natural and man made disasters.

Switzerland has also been actively involved in the reform of the Security Council, an organ that embodies both the strengths and the weaknesses of the United Nations.

It is true, and we strongly emphasize this, that the weaker countries must not always put forward their weakness as a pretext to demand or to call for protection or assistance from the international community.

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.

He hoped that ECA would take concrete measures to rectify its internal weaknesses, in response to the findings and recommendations of OIOS.

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.