They're weaker than they seem.

These figures are a good deal weaker than originally stated.

The Bosnian people are weaker today than they were last year.

President Obama started with a much weaker economy than I did.

There's nothing weaker than that when all the floor parts are crumbled.

But economic recovery everywhere will be weaker and will take longer than expected.

Well, naturally, when you go around picking on things weaker than you are...

France latched onto the idea, because its borrowing capacity was also weaker than Britain s.

That should be a warning for Europe, whose economy is now far weaker than America s.

As a result, the 1982 Constitution has weaker democratic origins than any in the EU.

Second, Japan s public finances are weaker than in 1995, and demographic factors are less favorable.

In practice, open source stands for criteria a little weaker than those of free software.

In 1959, the victims of Minamata disease were in a much weaker position than the fishermen.

Their numb brains are sending weaker and weaker signals to their bananas.

The Convention on the Rights of the Child contains the following provision, which is weaker than desired

For example, Americans may define religiosity differently than Middle Easterners, with perhaps a weaker attachment to religious beliefs than is true in Islamic countries.

In most cases it is an emotional inequality that can make one party stronger or weaker than the other.

Household balance sheets are weaker.

After 3 months, you're weaker.

With so many dollars going abroad, the American economy should have been in a much weaker shape than it appeared.

Your efforts grow weaker every day.

Globalization thus implies that sovereignty is not only becoming weaker in reality, but that it needs to become weaker.

Weaker economies will also feel the pinch.

Europe s stress tests have been much weaker.

Your human self is your weaker self.

We will begin with the weaker ones

There are, however, significant differences in the wording of the MOTAPM recommendations which are weaker than the standards found in the Amended Protocol.

An overcall may be made with a much weaker hand than an original bid, a fact which the partner must bear in mind.

It's like the moon is a weaker magnet.

That may have been plausible, but the two banks also wanted to demonstrate publicly that they had better balance sheets than their weaker rivals.

A new instrument which incorporates mine clearance commitments weaker than those in Articles 3 and 10 of Amended Protocol II would undermine existing law.

Because base stations operate at less than 100 watts, the radiation at ground level is much weaker than a cell phone due to the power relationship appropriate for that design of antenna.

The weaker dollar reduces the US standard of living.

External factors are especially important in smaller, weaker countries.

These bridges can protect weaker trees from strong winds.

Not only has that been weak. it's getting weaker.

After all, a weaker currency and better trade balance in some countries necessarily implies a stronger currency and a weaker trade balance in others.

As modernism proceeds, strong ties in traditional communities become weaker and weaker, while the need to care for each other grows stronger and stronger.

That assumption would be valid only if the municipal law of the State gave foreign shareholders unreasonably weaker rights than those granted to national shareholders.

Turf conflicts, nationalistic feelings and cultural differences that lead to difficult communications result in weaker loyalties among those fighting transnational crime than among those committing it.

The enemy will only grow stronger... while we grow weaker.

For these reasons, Europeans favor a new Security Council resolution, even if its measures are weaker than what the United States or the EU could impose unilaterally.

This recovery has been much weaker than previous ones because of fundamental differences in the cause of the downturn and in the policies chosen to achieve recovery.

Its strength at the equator 0.2 gauss (20 µT) is approximately one twentieth of that of the field around Jupiter and slightly weaker than Earth's magnetic field.

And, as we have seen, a weaker financial system means a weaker economy, and possibly the need for more emergency money to save it from another catastrophe.