Take those external weaknesses away, and imperial decline seems to follow as surely as night follows day.
It would suggest that empires fool themselves if they think that their superiority is endemic rather than contingent, and a reflection of their inner strengths rather than of others' external weaknesses.
The categories of internal and external weaknesses refer to issues within and outside of the PHSA, respectively.
"The external weakness will influence growth in China but it is not a great slowdown," he said.
But the world's third-largest economy slipped into a trade deficit in March — its first in six years — more because of domestic vigor than external weakness.
Public housing, one of the government's greatest successes, remains subject to a system of ethnic quotas, so that the minority Malays and Indians could not coalesce into ghettoes.A dot on the map That sense of external weakness and internal fragility was central to Mr Lee's policies for the young country.
Furthermore, families with uncomplicated distal myopathy but without a known genetic cause have been reported (Udd, 2007, 2009), and several reports describe families with distal myopathy associated with features such as joint contractures and kyphoscoliosis (Bautista et al., 1978), external ophthalmoplegia, weakness of pharynx muscles and respiratory failure (MIM 607569) (Uyama et al., 1998).
Moreover, recent studies in an animal model of ALS (TDP-43 A315transgenicic mice) showed a lack of severe muscle atrophy or external muscle weakness in later stages of the disease although degeneration of myenteric neurons by the accumulation of TDP-43 was detected.
International weakness.
With the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA), a cash-strapped utility, teetering on the brink of default, the new system may face its first test soon.Puerto Rico's woes stem from a mix of structural weaknesses, external shocks and self-inflicted wounds.
Thus, although the initial random selection in a population-based sample may offer some preliminary protection from bias, responses may still be systematically biased, posing a threat to external validity with weaknesses that may rival convenience based sampling strategies.
