Sentences with phrase «rather weak state»

Not exact matches

Maybe people are not «fence - sitting», as you so inelegantly stated, but rather like myself have made a firm intelligent decision that religions are the cause of some of the most devastating periods in man's brief history on this planet and hopefully one day we will get past the need to use religions as a crutch for a weak mind and instead select lifestyles such as Buddhism to evolve.

FTSE4Good assesses companies against their own stated policies, rather than the baby milk marketing requirements they should follow, so the weaker the policies are, the better for Nestlé.

Is it enough just to keep the Taliban at bay or is it of vital importance that Afghanistan is a successful state rather than a weak or failed state?

During Mario's governorship races, he faced rather weak GOP opponents.Does anyone remember his opponents?There was always speculation that Mario and the state's GOP establishment, including Sen.Alfonse D'Amato, had an understanding.Mario would not get involved in the state GOP Senate races, especially in D'Amato's Long Island turf, and, in return, the GOP would recruit weak governorship candidates.

New York is ranked among the states assigning strong rather than weak budgetary powers to the Executive.

Worst still, the presiding judge shows how weak and compromised the judicial arm is by not granting bail to an accused who was brought to court almost half dead but rather remanded him to prison custody according to early reports from Lokoja in Kogi State.

Though communities (rural and urban) will be the fulcrum of the alternative futures, the state will need to retain, or rather strengthen, its welfare role for the weak (human and non-human).

... the Feinberg recommendations are still rather weak sauce, especially in light of the fact that it still keeps in place state laws and processes that make it almost impossible for school and district leaders to fire teachers who don't belong in classrooms.

Rather than comply with more humane standards, many Virginia puppy millers decided to move their operations to states with weaker laws and lax enforcement.

The only time when the visuals suffer are immediately before and after races, where the cutscenes look rather basic and bare; even the United States Air - Force flybys are weak.

Our analyses suggest, rather, that volcanic forcing drives the coupled ocean - atmosphere system more subtly towards a state in which multi-year El Niño - like conditions are favoured, followed by a weaker rebound into a La Niña - like state.»

Our analyses suggest, rather, that volcanic forcing drives the coupled ocean - atmosphere system more subtly towards a state in which multi-year El Nin˜o - like conditions are favoured, followed by a weaker rebound into a La Nin˜a - like state.

«Rather than pursuing a reasonable compromise, the Trump administration is crafting a proposal that is dramatically weaker than any automobile manufacturer has requested and that also deliberately seeks to embark on a legal collision course with the state of California — a scenario that automakers, lawmakers and the state of California have all repeatedly urged the administration to avoid,» said Sen. Tom Carper (D - Del.)

«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.

If Will is trying to make the point that Crichton's book, while fiction, is nonetheless worth listening to because it draws on real scientific knowledge, it is a rather weak point, since as we have discussed elsewhere, State of Fear is notable mostly for what it leaves out.