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Otherwise, we build a weak link into the agencies' operational security.
Secondly, it weakens the already weak link between the services and the civilian population.
The process has worked so far, but only just, and there has certainly been one weak link in the chain.
If there is one weak link—say, in our cruiser strength—that will not only imperil but absolutely nullify the whole of our naval strength.
Economic interdependence also assumes the weak link: the score for the less interdependent state in a dyad is taken to be the stronger determinant of interstate disputes.
The weak link in the argument is the assumption that there is a possible world which may only be described as consisting of nothing but two qualitatively identical spheres.
The weak link between stated goals and actual changes by individuals planning for retirement is consistent with recent research in behavioral economics, particularly relating to retirement saving.
Instead, the data provide only a weak link between peer rejection and antisocial peer involvement and a nonsignificant link between early externalizing problems and antisocial peer involvement.