Sentence examples for its underlying weaknesses from inspiring English sources

Germany may look like the strong man of Europe but its underlying weaknesses are obvious.

The organization noted that it remains unclear whether the decreasing momentum of recovery was temporary "or whether it signals greater underlying weaknesses in private spending at a time when policy support is being removed".

A root and branch recapitalization of the banks would have sent out the desperately needed signal that the Continent was serious about the underlying weaknesses in its financial sector.

In essence, the 2003 war, post-war looting and its consequences, as well as the underlying weaknesses in Iraq's social sectors, call for a more comprehensive reconstruction effort than solely humanitarian assistance or physical rehabilitation of social facilities.

But he said the administration's "few bad apples" approach was not enough, and that it was necessary to address underlying weaknesses in the legal and regulatory frameworks for monitoring companies, their boards and their auditors.

"This policy response is in our view necessary and welcome even if it does not address the underlying weaknesses of the system: high private and or public debt, a lack of fiscal integration, the absence of a euro area wide banking regulator with binding powers," said RBS.

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"When everybody is doing better," he said, "it is difficult to see the underlying weaknesses".

Its central forecast is that British GDP will shrink by almost 4% in the year to the second quarter of 2009, its steepest decline since the early 1980s.The gloom reflects growing worries about underlying weaknesses that make Britain especially vulnerable to a recession spawned by the most serious financial crisis since the early 1930s.

Political stability and the end of the civil war have improved aid flows and economic activity has increased, but underlying weaknesses - a high poverty rate, poor education rates, a weak legal system, a poor transportation network, overburdened utilities, and low administrative capacity - risk undermining planned economic reforms.

"But given the underlying weaknesses that are evident into today's data, if the economy remains weak then the toll on the public sector finances could end up being truly horrible".