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Rising labour costs and weak demand remained key factors constraining companies' growth.
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Good news, since the results come during the firm's weak summer months.
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Thousands of serious crimes have gone unpunished by Mexico's weak justice system.
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That's partly because the weak housing market means few new construction jobs.
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Yet threats of retaliation underscore the weak legal case of opposed countries.
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Most of Europe suffers from record low investment and feeble productivity growth.
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In appearance they are feeble; in reality, copious and full of force.
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Now, with the aid of feeble though welcome light, his courage grew.
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The story that the candle had expired seemed feeble in the extreme.
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It would be better to enter alone; he must not appear feeble.
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However, CGWS has been demonstrated so far only in weakly scattering samples.
2
The MPC said the economy appeared to be growing again, albeit weakly.
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Norine seated herself weakly; she stared in bewilderment at the unhappy speaker.
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I smiled weakly and answered no, but yes, yes, something was wrong.
5
George smiled weakly, still not quite back into the world of words.
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It has the potential to completely undermine an already rickety democratic process.
2
A Florida cracker family, in a rickety wagon, stopped to help them.
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And the rickety gig rattled merrily off in search of broken bones.
4
He has great arguments but built the most rickety of bully pulpits.
5
The room at the foot of the rickety, patched stairs was empty.
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Tens of thousands of children enter Russia's decrepit orphanage system every year.
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The decrepit regime Syria's president heads is getting really good at repression.
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The second house was a converted detached garage in back, equally decrepit.
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Its location in the middle of Dublin 4 belied its decrepit state.
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Family after family arrives, each claiming a decrepit ancestor amid high-decibel greetings.
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There is a moral issue involved in refusing care to the infirm.
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The camp was deserted of all except the infirm and very aged.
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Therefore are there many infirm and weak among you: and many sleep.
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The mind is too infirm to be entirely occupied with higher knowledge.
5
Aged and infirm as Opechancanough was, the wound was not instantly mortal.
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Too weak and faltering to be febrile, Chopin is here a debile, prematurely exhausted young man.
2
The family magazine of the literary order has been debile, so radical critics charge, since its journalistic offspring began to sweep America.
3
A little priest came in, a man scarcely thirty years of age, but thin and debile of build, with a long, seared, saffron-coloured face.
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The wrong-doers followed that by which they were made sapless, and were guilty.
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The carcass becomes a sapless mummy, a mere bit of leather.
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Adversity has shaken them all like dead leaves from sapless branches.
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They could never have made his sapless nature break into leafage.
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They chew hungrily at the sapless fibre of the dead reed-stalks.
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The mimosa trees, sapless and dry, are thick with thorns.
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There is life always, even in the dry fir-cone that looks so brown and sapless.
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Yet, in the end, the sapless tree must fall.
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Vegetation, even the most dry and sapless, scarcely exists.
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He came to meet them on his crutches, a smile on his yellow, sapless face.
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What a sapless, fibreless thing is a man untrained by endurance and untaught by suffering!
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Marley stared open-mouthed at David for a moment, and then relapsed into his sapless official manner.
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Youth and beauty fly swift away, while sapless old age expels the wanton loves and gentle sleep.
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But that happens when you are hoary and sapless, and when nothing under the sun delights you.'
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Between these two extremes might be found about five feet ten of humanity, lank, sapless, and stooping.
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Was it for this I condescended to take you to my bed, you poor, withered, sapless twig?