relative weakness
collocation in Englishmeaningsofrelativeandweakness
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relative
adjective
uk/ˈrel.ə.tɪv/us/ˈrel.ə.t̬ɪv/
being judged or measured in comparison with ...
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weakness
noun
uk/ˈwiːk.nəs/us/ˈwiːk.nəs/
the fact or state of not being strong ...
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(Definition ofrelativeandweaknessfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Therelativeweaknessof descent structures, limited to three generations, stands out. 10.
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Such problems are compounded by the public sector'srelativeweaknessand by a demanding regulatory environment.
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However, as is inevitable in a text covering such a broad area there are some areas ofrelativeweakness.
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This reemphasizes the importance of the medical axis-of-power, or itsrelativeweakness, in forming health policy.
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Therelativeweaknessof children's vocabularies may prevent them from using their lexical knowledge to help them interpret partially masked speech.
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The latter surpassed themselves in techniques of bargaining fromrelativeweakness, techniques which only the very strong can afford to neglect all the time.
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The people, although managing to use self-help as a political tool for the acquisition of resources, were acting from a position ofrelativeweakness.
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The findings reveal different emphases in the emotion language of internalizing and externalizing youth rather than arelativeweaknessfor externalizing adolescents.
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Further, group facilitators noted that the sessions also gave children opportunities for supervised peer interactions, addressing an area ofrelativeweakness.
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Moreover, therelativeweaknessof the central state in the nineteenth century left liberals in national and state politics relatively little room for political manoeuvre.
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What they object to is a reduction in strength, or therelativeweaknessof beer.
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We were concerned, too, at therelativeweaknessof forestry products research.
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It seems, however, not entirely to atone for therelativeweaknessof his argument.
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We have not had any assurance that ourrelativeweaknesscan and will be eliminated.
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I should like to emphasise that we are worried by therelativeweaknessof the regulatory body now proposed.
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This problem results from the great power of the supermarkets and therelativeweaknessof the individual producer.
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Therelativeweaknessof the euro against the dollar seems to have triggered a number of excessive reactions.
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It is a virtuous circle for successful institutions, whereas weaker university institutions can be locked intorelativeweakness.
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In view of their strength now and ourrelativeweakness, would this not be a good opportunity for them to clear that moral debt?
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For better or worse, therelativeweaknessof the euro against the dollar, with sterling in the middle, has been the problem for us.
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The contrast between our commitment to national excellence in science, engineering and technology and ourrelativeweaknessin exploiting it to economic advantage still remains.
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Its downside was therelativeweakness, for a military handgun, of its 8x27mm ammunition.
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This was done to counter the impression ofrelativeweaknessof the game's name monster.
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First, there was a widely perceived contrast between our continued excellence in science, engineering and technology and ourrelativeweaknessin exploiting it, particularly to economic advantage.
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