"Party leaders prefer weak successors, so they can rule behind the scenes," Ho Pin, the founder of Mingjing News, an overseas Chinese site, said.
Perhaps western energy firms prefer weak corrupt states, safe for oil wells and pipelines, rather than headstrong democracies that may start worrying about the environment, or their own citizens' share of the cake.That is probably too cynical.
Stewart Patrick of the Council on Foreign Relations, an American think-tank, argues in a forthcoming book that international terrorists do not find the most failed states particularly attractive; they prefer "weak but moderately functional" states.
People will prefer weak ties to strong ones: social networks will be constituted around hobbies rather than around family or work.
As discussed above, donor partners tend to prefer weak partnerships to strong ones because they are more easily managed.
Therefore, it seems that polyadenylation may not prefer weak 5′ss, and UGUAA-dominated species (e.g., C. reinhardtii) may have distinct splice site selection in polyadenylation from AAUAAA-dominated species (e.g., Arabidopsis and human).
Partnership theory tends to see strong partnerships as the ideal or 'real' partnerships, while in practice, according to Maxwell and Riddle, donors tend to prefer weak partnerships as it makes it easier to dominate agenda setting [ 32].
Environmentalists considered the disbandment as a backward step, resulting from state officials' not seriously supporting the President's fight against forest and haze, and preferring weaker standards (Michail 2016; Poynton 2016; Shah 2016).
They preferred weak leaders who would be beholden to them, analysts say.
