Sentences with phrase «considerably weaker state»

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And although there have been considerably fewer «traditional» conflicts among states in recent years, today's are extremely violent and are increasingly affecting civil populations and the weaker regions of the world.

«Permanent El Niño» is a rather loose and potentially confusing term, and here we interpret it as a state in which the west - to - east temperature gradient in the tropical Pacific is considerably weaker than today (with the potential for uniform SSTs across the basin) and ENSO variability is almost completely absent.