Infidelity, Frank reflects, enhances a couple's erotic field at first, but, like a mind-expanding drug, leaves it weaker in the end.
With the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991, Vietnam lost its oldest military ally and patron, leaving it weak and alone as it faces a possible confrontation with China over competing territorial claims in the South China Sea.
But it is in better shape than it was mere weeks ago, when Ebola had left it weak and waiting for help.
They see an agency that has resorted to operations like Fast and Furious because Congress, under the influence of the gun rights lobby, has left it weak and ineffective.
A bird rescue organization is offering a $2,500 reward for information that could lead to the arrest of whoever was responsible for slashing a brown pelican's throat pouch, leaving it weak and malnourished.
They are polluter-funded leeches sucking on the flesh of environmentalism, leaving it weaker and depleted.
The coalition's shake-up of the NHS was misguided, deepened the growing problems facing A&E units and left it weaker, structurally "incomprehensible" and less able to improve care for patients, according to a leading health thinktank.
In a report rushed out – just days after the group's chief executive, Euan Sutherland, quit and branded the organisation "ungovernable" – Myners concluded that: The group's "massive failure of governance" had "gravely damaged the organisation", letting its business decay and leaving it financially weak.
There is little doubt that so-called dark hats have taken over the internet leaving it exposed, weak and vulnerable to any bad actors to use it as they will.
The economy grew at an inflation-adjusted annual rate of 0.7percentthethe Commerce Department said, leaving it in its weakest condition in a decade.
