Mr. Roach and others doubt a third rate cut will be able to cure what currently ails the equity market: high valuations, falling earnings and what is seen as a prolonged state of weakness in the technology sector.
Fearful of a strong, independent Arab Shia community emerging in Iraq, one that seeks religious guidance not in Qom, Iran, but from traditional sources of Shia authority in Najaf and Karbala, the Iranian regime also aims to keep Iraq in a state of weakness that prevents Baghdad from presenting a threat to Tehran.
In his weekly televised address, Maliki said he hoped parliament could get past its "state of weakness" and reach consensus in its next session, planned for Tuesday.
Look at what befell the young, bold, passionate country we had here, and how, as if it had undergone a quickened aging process, Israel lurched from infancy and youth to a perpetual state of gripe, weakness, and sourness".
His health deteriorated on the way, and Ewelina wrote to her daughter about Balzac being "in a state of extreme weakness" and "sweating profusely".
But by and large, the coming of peace to the Balkans has merely allowed the deep problems of state weakness, and of incomplete state-building projects, to be seen more clearly.The "open status" issues of Kosovo and Montenegro obstruct the normalisation of political life in Serbia, the western Balkans' biggest country, and thus overshadow the whole region.
Distortion of the national, historic and moral consciousness more than once led the whole state to weakness, collapse and loss of sovereignty".
But here too there are anomalies: Russia is ranked as a middling country in terms of state weakness, but does worse in the corruption index; Italy scores below some African countries.When it comes to pandemics, there is no simple correlation between disease and dysfunctional states.
Far from being a sign of strength, this is an indication of state weakness.
In 2005, Yash Ghai, then the UN's special rapporteur on Cambodia, looked over the nation's government and delivered a damning verdict: that the country's lawlessness was not a matter of state weakness or accident but intentional policy.
Only the intervention of the local party chief stopped her popping into her handbag a bit of the country's heritage.More generally, too, the Soviet state was showing signs of weakness.
