Sentence examples for should be weaker from inspiring English sources

The general says all he wants is that "the moderates should be strengthened and the extremists should be weaker".

Officials here also note that unlike in 2004, eight other EU countries besides Britain – including Austria, Belgium, France, Germany and the Netherlands – will be lifting controls on Romanian and Bulgarian workers next month, so Britain's pull factor should be weaker.

You might also expect some relationship between debt and future growth, because growth tends to be "serially correlated" — countries that grew slowly in the past tend to keep growing slowly — but that relationship should be weaker.

As if to underscore his lack of experience in financial policy, he briefly stirred up currency markets on Thursday by saying at the news conference that the yen should be weaker, a comment taken by traders as meaning the government may intervene to drive down the currency's value.

In whose interests is it that the UN should be weak?

As Australian gender theorist Jamila Rosdahl puts it: "that men should be strong, aggressive and in control and women should be weak, passive and powerless".

"This is not a time the economy should be weak," said Peter L. Bernstein, a consultant to large investors and the author of "Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk".