| It had to be puny if a relatively weak top break handgun mechanism could safely hold it. |
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| That includes doing more to separate church and state in Britain while the religious fundies are relatively weak. |
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| If that's right, it would suggest March's relatively weak out-turn was a blip. |
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| However, this may not be the case for oligopeptides such as EAK16 because of their relatively weak intrachain interactions. |
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| Unlike birds of prey, the talons of Old World vultures are relatively weak and unsuitable as weapons of attack. |
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| These lucid scientific interjections compensate rewardingly for the book's relatively weak cultural sense. |
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| In the winter months, with a relatively weak gradient from the northwest and a cold airmass, northwest winds can be quite variable. |
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| The van der Waals force is long range, attractive, and relatively weak. |
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| Presidential authority also benefits from France's relatively weak and often fawning media. This has several undesirable consequences. |
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| The relatively weak secondary bonds allow the sheets to slide past one another, giving graphite the lubricity for which it is well known. |
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| China's economy continues to grow rapidly and unevenly, led by surging investment and exports but with relatively weak domestic consumption. |
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| Canada's relatively weak productivity growth is another possible hindrance to the country's growth. |
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| It is a relatively weak flier and can be followed closely as it remains near the ground and alights frequently on vegetation. |
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| The color snow leopard, present in Bengals, is primarily a masked cat with relatively weak contrasts between mask and body. |
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| If we look at things objectively, the FN remains a relatively weak force at local level. |
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| On the contrary, when there is no value-driven attentional set, even relatively weak salient stimuli will capture attention. |
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| The Arab States and South Asia are both also characterized by relatively weak female empowerment. |
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| Unlike in metals with incomplete d-shells, metallic bonds in copper are lacking a covalent character and are relatively weak. |
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| And these brands are growing fast, especially given the relatively weak base they are starting from, compared to the global market. |
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| Besides, it's difficult to study in a foreign language with a relatively weak base! |
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| We expect investment banking conditions to remain relatively weak through the current economic cycle. |
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| The Caroline minuscule, however, had a relatively weak impact on the writing habits of Italian notaries, who remained faithful to the cursive style. |
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| The latter factor impinges on and undermines public administration, already affected by scarcity of skilled personnel and relatively weak institutional infrastructure. |
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| Resistance has been less effective in a few areas like anti-dumping, government procurement, and countervailing and safeguard measures where multilateral disciplines are relatively weak or their coverage is limited. |
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| Wren's challenge was to construct a large cathedral on the relatively weak clay soil of London. |
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| To produce a rubbery polypropylene, a catalyst can be made which yields isotactic polypropylene, but with the organic groups that influence tacticity held in place by a relatively weak bond. |
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| The naval blockade, however, was relatively weak, and the British were able to resupply the garrison. |
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| At the molecular level, ice consists of stacked layers of molecules with relatively weak bonds between layers. |
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| For many years the French Crown was relatively weak, enabling first Henry II, and then his sons Richard and John, to dominate France. |
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| Anticipated economic benefits from tourism can encourage the building of poorly planned infrastructure, particularly in the context of developing countries with relatively weak legislative and executive powers. |
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| And a relatively weak La Nina could mean particularly rainy weather, Taylor said. |
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| In general, the north-westerly winds strengthen at the close of day, but remain relatively weak with an average wind speed of 5-10 knots and reach its peak strength in January. |
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| Northumberland has a relatively weak economy amongst the counties and other local government areas of the United Kingdom. |
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| In 2006, when Katz defeated a relatively weak three-candidate field of challengers, his strategy involved saying as little as possible and avoiding major gaffes. |
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| To build fires and shelters and to hunt with more than the hands and teeth were essential to the survival of a thin-skinned, relatively weak creature. |
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| In addition, the papacy was relatively weak, and its power was mostly confined to central Italy. |
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| This can be traced back to the relatively weak position of the WO in Eastern Europe as well as a lack of experience, manpower and opportunities for self-development. |
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| As a consequence, the link between multiannual budgetary plans set in the SCPs and the preparation of annual budgets for the subsequent years tends to be relatively weak in the EU countries. |
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| He saw that if a large French force managed to cross the Channel without being intercepted, it could triumph over the relatively weak British land forces. |
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| Molluscum Contagiosum virus, is the only known humanadapted poxvirus and causes a long-term infection with a relatively weak immune response from the host. |
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| Tertiary education in Southeast Asia is, in general, relatively weak in terms of technological capacity and integration such as in credit transfer schemes. |
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| According to Pecharsky, the molecules of organic compounds are bound to one another by relatively weak hydrogen bonds and a connectivity known as the van der Waals force. |
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