Writer demonstrates the fallacy of this viewpoint-comparing a strong military power like Germany was in 1938 with Khomeini's Iran, a tiny, weak, faction-ridden fledgling state.
He beat out a lack-luster candidate from the PRI and is now facing down a PRI controlled state government with a relatively weak political faction behind him.
Machar's decision in 1991 to create his own weak Nuer faction, funded by Tiny Rowland and Khartoum, had plunged southern Sudan into chaos.
In a large, unwieldy board, especially those with dominating trustees or weak chairs, factions can develop from within that can shape a college's direction.
And yet even in Utah the dissident faction is weaker than it might at first seem.
He denounced Morgan Tsvangirai, the party's founder and head of the other faction, as "weak and indecisive".
Cheng Li, a scholar of Chinese politics at the Brookings Institution, wrote in a paper published in September that the Chinese political system was one of "weak leaders, strong factions," and that it suffered from "nepotism and patron-client ties in the selection of leaders".
It has split, but its reformist faction is too weak to challenge the League.In this section Where the sniping has to stop Frozen assets The ecumenism of commerce Our friends in the north Looking for the exit The cross they bear Not much to celebrate Explosive mines ReprintsIt seems certain that the calls to release the two women will intensify.
Abadi, though personally popular, is widely seen as weak – and his divided, faction-riven administration even weaker.
Mr. Abbas is a weak leader, representing only the Fatah faction and ruling only the West Bank while the rival Hamas controls Gaza.
But four years later, Mr. Aliyev's critics say he has been too weak to control the factions beneath him.
