Britain, however, was a weak spot due to Brexit uncertainty.
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One weak spot for economy, however, is the housing market.
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SocGen's corporate and investment bank (CIB) was a particularly weak spot.
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Nigeria has been a weak spot in vaccination efforts for years.
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They seized on the opioid crisis as Gottlieb's potential weak spot.
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Mining stocks were another weak spot, tracking declines in copper prices.
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So we were trying to get to, 'What's your weak spot?
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The housing market has been a weak spot in a robust economy.
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He, however, singled out the Singapore mortgage market as a weak spot.
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Who knew there was a weak spot behind his icy television persona?
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For an hour I search my inventory looking for a weak spot.
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By January, a clear weak spot had emerged in Trump's path to victory.
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However, manufacturing continued to be a weak spot, declining to 59.0 from 62.1.
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They've been a weak spot for Warren since she first ran in 2012.
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But the Clinton campaign has long seen Trump's sexism as a weak spot.
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Bottega Veneta remained a weak spot with sales down 8.6 percent in the quarter.
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Kids are my weak spot, especially since I have a seven-year-old sister.
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The ad drives at a potential weak spot for Trump with voters -- his demeanor.
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A weak spot was financing and advisory, where revenues were broadly flat at 573m.
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"Cyprus is no longer considered a weak spot," said Commerzbank rates strategist Rainer Guntermann.
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But he also tends to have a weak spot when it comes to her.
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That's kind of the weak spot in the report in the eyes of many.
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FX was singled out as a weak spot compared with rates and credit trading.
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Breakfast, which was included in my room rate, might be the hotel's weak spot.
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As tensions with America rise, Iran's ayatollahs, too, see Britain as a potential weak spot.
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If there's a weak spot at Facebook, it's making money from anything that's not ads.
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Still, Walgreens international sales were a weak spot in the company's third-quarter earnings report.
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So, if you have a weak spot on your application, make sure you explain why.
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Yet regional Colombian fare from outside the capital has long been the city's weak spot.
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But the perennial weak spot for Texas is Education, where it lands in just 40th place.
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When it comes to Apple and privacy, the App Store is the company's biggest weak spot.
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Republicans spent an entire primary cycle searching for Donald J. Trump's weak spot, to little avail.
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Its women's business in particular was a weak spot during the holiday season, Gass had said.
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Then there are wages, which have been the weak spot of the employment picture for years.
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But there's hope: Scientists have now found a weak spot to attack some of these bacteria.
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Our largest concern is that Negan knows Judith exists because that is Rick's biggest weak spot.
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He is an expert on productivity growth, something that has been a weak spot for Britain's economy.
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I think the sense is Europe, in particular, is a real weak spot in the global economy.
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Hurricane Owen has left the remains of his work everywhere, exploiting every weak spot with his fury.
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The Brexit vote immediately sparked speculation about which country may be the next weak spot in Europe.
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Investment banking was a weak spot, but fixed income and investment management results were better than expected.
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It is a clear weak spot Clubs will never voluntarily disadvantage themselves by cutting ticket prices significantly.
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The weak spot came from Alibaba's 4.5% 2034s, which dropped a point to 101.693, according to Tradeweb.
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Advertising was the weak spot, falling 6.7 percent over all, with digital ad revenue dropping 5.4 percent.
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This need to somehow maintain a hopeful status quo is a weak spot of the American sitcom.
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All right, the Dow down about 25 points today, technology, though, not an alarmingly weak spot in this.
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But the researchers said the LTE network used to transmit the broadcast message is the biggest weak spot.
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Republicans see an opening to Clinton's political weak spot -- trustworthiness and judgment -- and have vowed to hit it.
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Sensing that everyone had their weak spot, David Halberstam suggested in his book, "The Fifties", the producers persisted.
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Another weak spot is the way judges are appointed by member countries of the OAS without public hearings.
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The hackers, according to Reddit's own version of the story, hit the company in a particularly weak spot.
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The stronger economic picture spurred investments but exports, a persistent weak spot, did not have any sustained improvement.
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You essentially force the server to connect to the outside world, opening up a weak spot for attacks.
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The agriculture unit, a weak spot in earlier quarters, has struggled due to higher production and slowing demand.
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But a particularly weak spot — and one that could come into play in the HQ2 sweepstakes — is education.
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The FTSE 100 gained 0.6 percent, with household goods boosting the index, while miners were a weak spot.
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One weak spot is the nation's huge debt level, which amounts to 60 percent of its annual economy.
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The budget play seemed designed to improve its standing in rural areas, traditionally a weak spot for the BJP.
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Hoping to find a shared weak spot in that biology, the scientists tested around 3 million chemicals on them.
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As Democrats seek to take control of Congress, they see Republicans as having a particularly weak spot on healthcare.
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The IMF cut Italy's growth outlook on Tuesday and its banking system was singled out as a weak spot.
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Consumer staples however were a weak spot with British American Tobacco and Unilever down 1.1 and 0.6 percent respectively.
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Pence, a former Indiana governor and congressman, was just the Washington creature to make up for Trump's weak spot.
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That's a weak spot, as the president's own party usually stands firmly behind him on major foreign policy issues.
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But when the juror expert suggests she "soften her appearance" and "try smiling more," we see her weak spot.
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Nvidia was another weak spot, falling 6.6 percent after the chipmaker temporarily suspended self-driving tests across the globe.
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Its ancillary care and justice services proved the weak spot, with a 3.2% fall in revenue in the quarter.
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Nvidia was another weak spot, falling 7.8 percent after the chipmaker temporarily suspended self-driving tests across the globe.
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The biggest apparent weak spot in the housing data now tends to confirm this way of looking at it.
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Miners, however, were a weak spot as Glencore dropped more than 8 percent and hit a one-year low.
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When I found the weak spot, I didn't have the slightest clue that the police were behind the site.
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And if there's a weak spot in the otherwise strong economy, it could be in these interest-sensitive sectors.
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This past holiday season was especially tough, with Kohl's, Macy's and Walmart each citing apparel as a weak spot.
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The Raptors' biggest weak spot has been their defense, as they rank 20th in the league in defensive rating.
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As CNBC has previously reported, Kellogg's management has cited the Venezuelan economy as a weak spot in its operating profits.
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In the demo it was possible to slow down time to nail the perfect headshot or hit someone's weak spot.
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A weak spot in Pakistan, for instance, was its reliance on oil imports to fuel much of its electricity supply.
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Morocco, which counts for 2 percent of group sales, was another weak spot as a result of the consumer boycott.
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" He added, "His weak spot was tobacco, which he downplayed as distracting from what he thought were the real killers.
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Italy was a weak spot, falling 0.8 percent as bank stocks suffered from rising bond yields after weak industrial data.
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The president will be banking on the current conventional wisdom, which maintains that immigration is a weak spot for Democrats.
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For a company and leader that counts "develop the best" as a leadership principle, this remains a glaring weak spot.
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Other candidates might seize on an ideological weak spot, such as Christie's previous support for gun control or Planned Parenthood.
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France, which accounts for about 8 percent of group sales, remained a weak spot, with sales falling by 4 percent.
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With rising borrowing costs and prices outstripping wage growth, the market has been a weak spot in the robust economy.
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Hazard's weak spot kick was saved by Caballero but the ball fell kindly for the Belgian to tuck away the rebound.
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However, the currency still hit a 19-month weak spot in early trading, briefly crashing through 70 to the dollar again.
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The weak spot here is Jaguar Land Rover's InControl Touch Pro infotainment system, which has never been one of our favorites.
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Energy drinks are a weak spot for both Coca-Cola and PepsiCo, and neither owns a major brand in the category.
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That strikes me as a potential weak spot if/when Sanders winds up as the Democratic nominee against President Donald Trump.
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If something like that were to happen in the course of this trial, that would be a weak spot for McConnell.
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Another weak spot for the company was its solar business, where sales dropped by more than 23 percent in the quarter.
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In Education, a traditional weak spot, Utah improves to 249rd place from 31st in 2015, thanks in large part to increased funding.
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China was still a weak spot, though the 12% drop in revenue there was not as bad as in some previous quarters.
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If it had a weak spot, it was Lanza's decision to minimize the prominence of her voice, a strange and versatile instrument.
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The weak spot of the report was the company's fourth-quarter guidance that wrecked analysts hopes about the rest of the year.
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I know because there are girls out there who just hunt and they find a weak spot and they go for it.
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Right now, the crescendoing claims of Russian electoral meddling potentially hit Trump in his weak spot, because he has no strong response.
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For those of the morbid mindset, it's actually the windows, not the doors, that are usually the plane's weak spot, says Wright.
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Consumer staples were a weak spot with British American Tobacco, Imperial Brands and Unilever down 1 to 1.8 percent as the dollar fell.
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The Twins Study research leads plan to include samples from other unrelated astronauts to help compensate for this weak spot in the experiment.
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Trump's own recent, internal polling shows it as a weak spot for him, and a strength for Democrats, heading into the 2020 campaign.
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The most obvious gap is a lack of 360-degree video apps, but this is also a weak spot for the Oculus Rift.
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A weak spot in Asian credit was Noble Group, whose bonds were hit after the company was downgraded to junk by S&P.
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The biggest weak spot for the quarter was sales at its Gillette shaving business, which reported a 5 percent drop in net sales.
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The agriculture unit, a weak spot in earlier quarters, has struggled due to an industry wide grains glut that led to slowing demand.
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"The Merchant of Venice," up next and performed by Nicki Hobday, was the program's weak spot, but not because it's a controversial play.
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Utilities were a weak spot, down 0.8 percent to lead sectoral losers in Europe, weighed by a disappointing update at Italy's Enel RRS.
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What's more, Lemonis says he has a specific weak spot: "I'm a bit of a shopaholic" when it comes to fashion, he says.
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As early as 1938, British planners had determined that Germany's reservoirs and dams were a potential weak spot in the Nazi war machine.
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And that's despite the fact that customer service for maintenance and repairs and other issues is a "relative weak spot" for the company.
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But analysts say there's still progress to be made, and North America is still a weak spot, with athleisure sales slowing for some brands.
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But polling experts warn that state surveys in general are still a weak spot, and other aspects of election polling are still a challenge.
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Joe Biden of Delaware -- someone with a deeper foreign policy resume, an issue at the time that was considered a weak spot for Obama.
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Media shares were a weak spot, sliding half a percent on Publicis' 6% drop after the advertising group cut its 2019 revenue growth guidance.
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The Move controllers remain the platform's weak spot, with far less accurate and reliable motion tracking than you'd get on a Vive or Rift.
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The weak spot in the market is middle distillates, where lingering fears about global growth and trade flows continue to discourage aggressive position-building.
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The deadly coronavirus pandemic has stopped the world in its tracks, and exposed a weak spot in U.S. preparedness for a public health emergency.
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Randgold was another weak spot, down 8 percent after its quarterly profit fell, while Next rose 7.7 percent after a strong outlook and trading update.
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In fact, the main thing that stops King Petyr Baelish making narrative sense is the fact that Sansa is his weak spot, his femme fatale.
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Miners were another weak spot in Europe with the basic resources index declining more than 1 percent following a dip in the copper price weighed.
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Central London though remains a weak spot, with property prices forecast to fall and housebuilder Barratt having cut prices of some of its expensive homes.
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One weak spot for Domino's has been its international business, where same-store sales fell more than 1 percent below Wall Street estimates last quarter.
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Rising food and beverage, chemical, and non-metallic mineral production also helped lift output, while production of paper products and machinery was a weak spot.
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A dip in usage in BrazilBrazil, which is believed by analysts to be one of Netflix's largest international markets, may have been a weak spot.
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Two ways I try to keep my weak spot (my right hip) from knocking me out of training are through strength training and sports massage.
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Biden's weak spot is in stark contrast to former President Obama's popularity with young voters, many of whom gravitated toward his "hope and change" mantra.
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While you should be honest about your skills in an interview, displaying confidence even when discussing your weak spot is key to landing a position.
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"Mayor de Blasio has a tremendous weak spot for his old Council constituency," said Menashe Shapiro, a political consultant and founder of Shapiro Consulting Group.
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The big picture: Complex, bloated hospital systems are a glaring weak spot in U.S. cybersecurity — and there are limits on the government's power to help.
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In a weak spot, shares of London Stock Exchange Group dropped 6.4% after Hong Kong's bourse dropped its unsolicited $39 billion bid for the company.
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If you're a fan of the Stranger Things series and have a weak spot for pugs, you're going to love what's coming to Netflix next Fall.
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For weak spot prices to become relevant, demand in those countries has to be so strong that additional cargoes over and above contracted volumes are needed.
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And now that she is officially exploring a run for president, Trump wants to keep the heat on a Warren weak spot as much as possible.
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A positive sign that maybe is going unnoticed is that manufacturing increased employment this time, and manufacturing has been the glaring weak spot of the economy.
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But for Societe Generale and Credit Agricole , reporting on Wednesday, and BNP Paribas which published results last week, French retail banking came as a weak spot.
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That lower center of gravity helps immensely in preventing rollovers, which is typically a big weak spot for SUVs, which sit higher up on the road.
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Luckily for "the spirit of Man", as Winston Smith called it in "216", you identify Facebook's great and single weak spot: it needs to be "liked".
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The hedge fund is pushing for someone with media experience, which it identified as a weak spot given the job now involves overseeing operations like HBO.
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The corridor is sandwiched between the heavily militarized Russian exclave of Kaliningrad and Moscow's ally Belarus, and is considered NATO's weak spot on its eastern flank.
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One weak spot was Swedish property developer JM whose shares sank 4.6 percent after Norwegian building association OBOS said it sold all its shares in the firm.
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Its corporate and investment bank was a weak spot with revenue down 13.4 percent and net income falling 56.9 percent, impacted by a "strong negative forex effect".
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They also see initial signs of recovery in private consumption, a perennial weak spot in Japan's economy, with service-sector sentiment hitting a nearly three-year high.
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Turns out a dinosaur's skin is tough to break through, so in order to properly access a weak spot, Claire has to straddle the drugged-out creature.
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The company's weak spot, the Gladstone LNG project, aims to reach output of 6 million tonnes a year by the end of 2019, four years after opening.
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The other weak spot is the stockmarket, which is already jittery, and could get a lot more so if signs of a trade war get much stronger.
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A glaring weak spot in the report was Kate Spade's larger-than-expected drop in same-store sales of 6%, while analysts expected a drop of 1.39%.
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He also said VW was in talks with potential partners to bolster its position in China's growing economy-car market, a current weak spot for the business.
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It's also a disastrous start for Argentina, exposing what has been their weak spot all tournament: a defense that just isn't up to World Cup-winning standards.
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"The (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) has a weak spot in terms of fair use, and what's interesting about Pepe is that it's not really a parody," Wilf said.
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Outfield appears to be a weak spot for the Indians entering the season, with center fielder Leonys Martin the only clear option for one of the three jobs.
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Lean hog futures ended on both sides of the previous close, with the nearby December contract pressured by weak spot demand for hogs heading into the Thanksgiving holiday.
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Protesters were taking a chance that a weak spot in a line would not explode, and that employees in operations hubs would spring into action after hearing alarms.
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If ExxonMobil had not agreed to renegotiate, Petronet might have scrapped the agreement, leaving the major to pursue damages and resell the volumes on a weak spot market.
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Such comments strike many as tone-deaf and lacking empathy, exposing a weak spot for a government already battling to tackle gang violence, impunity and a stagnant economy.
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After spending the off-season hearing about how it could be the weak spot compared to the "Killer B" offense, the reality could prove to be considerably different.
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One thing that does carry over from the movie is the notion that women require protection and, as such, constitute the weak spot in the male hero's armor.
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Intuition and focus grant you talent in uncovering and addressing every weak spot your opponent possesses, so you're keen on taking your time to make the right move.
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The luxury market, once considered immune to the twists and turns of the economy, has a weak spot, as the high-end watch industry knows all too well.
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The Basic Resources index was another weak spot, down 1.5 percent, tracking weaker metal prices and weighed down by a drop in heavyweight Rio Tinto which went ex dividend.
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Greater China was the geographic weak spot, with revenue down 14 percent from a year ago, with all other regions showing growth (and double-digit growth except for Japan).
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Another weak spot was French retail banking, where revenues fell 5 percent after last year's first quarter turned out to be a peak in renegotiation fees for mortgage loans.
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Visible inventory often rises at the start of any year because of the Western and Chinese holidays and a seasonal weak spot for construction activity across the northern hemisphere.
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From Burgers & Feikes, we chose a "fake," a stack of juicy grilled eggplant medallions layered with chèvre, caramelized onion and watercress; its only weak spot was a boring bun.
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"We are seeing very healthy demand for diesel and fuel oil and the only weak spot really is gasoline," Dario Scaffardi, chief executive of Italian refiner Saras, told Reuters.
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The silly pet names, movie titles or sports teams that many people punch in to get into their online accounts are a weak spot that hackers continue to puncture.
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Trump's handling of trade negotiations with China is a particularly weak spot, with 35 percent in the new poll approving of him on this issue and 56 percent disapproving.
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Another weak spot was Nvidia, which fell 0.73 percent after the chipmaker temporarily suspended self-driving tests across the globe after an Uber Technologies Inc autonomous vehicle killed a woman.
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He'd seen the numbers—he understood the midrange was a weak spot for him, and he spent more time on that part of the floor this summer than ever before.
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"I have always had a weak spot for patterns and symmetry, and being an interior photographer, the 'Parisian floors' project fits well into what I like and do," writes Erras.
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The goal of the counteroffensive: Map the enemy's network, find a weak spot, and then infiltrate in order to learn how to undo the damage to the air defense system.
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Another weak spot was Nvidia, which fell 22.770 percent after the chipmaker temporarily suspended self-driving tests across the globe after an Uber Technologies Inc autonomous vehicle killed a woman.
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Magnified by rumours on social media, the doubts have transformed the country into a weak spot in efforts to shore up global immunity against infectious diseases, public health specialists say.
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But the historian also hinted at a weak spot in Mr. Finkielkraut's armored suit of erudition, one that makes him the subject of constant attack in the left-leaning press.
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Democratic pollster Carly Cooperman on Wednesday said that Democrats have always walked a fine line when it comes to border security, calling the issue a weak spot for the party.
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Britain's FTSE 100 was a weak spot, falling -0.6% as several large-cap names traded ex-dividend and exporters on the index took a hit from a surge in sterling.
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Stocks' rapid 'melt-up' this year has left these call sellers in a weak spot and they have been forced to buy calls to cover their short position, analysts said.
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They would be an obvious weak spot for his rivals to zero in on as they seek to portray themselves as best-placed to unite the party to defeat Trump.
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The housing market, which has been a weak spot in an otherwise robust economy, has been hobbled by a short supply of homes and higher prices, dampening affordability for potential buyers.
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According to a post her mom put up on Imgur, she retrieved the mail on Sunday (probably the first weak spot in her plan) and handed her mom an inventive note.
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Commercial lending was a weak spot for the U.S. lender when it reported third-quarter results in October, with balances falling by more than $5 billion compared to the prior period.
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Morrison was also able to limit swings against the government in Victoria, seen as the major weak spot after a stinging rejection of the Liberal Party at state elections in November.
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And Littlefinger looks set to climb that ladder all the way to the top in Seasons 7 and 8 — perhaps unless Sansa, his weak spot, comes to her senses in time.
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Givaudan was a weak spot after the fragrance and flavor maker reported a weaker-than-expected sales increase during its first quarter despite a boost from new contract wins and acquisitions.
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It was a big swing and a miss on Maher's part, which is too bad, because it was also an opportunity to poke at a weak spot in the guest's argument.
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The United States, where Burberry has been hurt by a tough market for department stores, has been a weak spot for the company, and sales declined slightly in the first half.
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Tech and cyclical stocks, which have been some of the hardest hit in the recent sell-off, were among the leading sectoral gainers on Thursday, while banks were a weak spot.
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Scurry herself suggested this year that goalkeeper could be the team's weak spot, putting Naeher in "the question column" in a forecast of the Americans' chances to repeat as world champions.
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Economic policy has been Tsai's weak spot; as recently as in 2018, the DPP suffered a humiliating defeat in local elections largely due to frustration at the administration's economic reform efforts.
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"The only weak spot of the German economy remains rather sluggish investment," Brzeski noted, adding the government should further support domestic demand by stimulating higher private investments and increasing its own spending.
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Rouse admits she hasn't read all of The Bell Curve, which Carlson then identifies as her weak spot, repeatedly returning to the fact she has little knowledge of what she actually protested.
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Health care has been seen as a weak spot for Harris, who has sometimes fumbled answers on the issue, and her plan came under attack from both sides of the ideological spectrum.
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Pizza Hut, a weak spot for the company in the past few years, grew for the first time in five quarters, posting a better-than-expected 2% rise in same-store sales.
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Hoping to press on Fox's weak spot, Comcast said that it was committed to Sky News's editorial independence, offering to set up a board for the news unit and maintain its funding.
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While there were no reports of hacks, the FDA recognized the weak-spot in pacemakers that could allow hackers to "deliberately run the battery flat," or alter its pacing, the Guardian reports.
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With the world watching him in a World Cup opener against Iceland, the normally brilliant Messi struck a weak spot kick that was saved, leaving Argentina with a disappointing 1-1 draw.
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Much to my surprise, I actually got back an IP. You found the weak spot in January 2017, at which point the Australian police had been running the server for three months.
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Investigators later determined that the bridge failed because of a design flaw that was exacerbated as construction workers added more weight to the structure with concrete, adding strain to a weak spot.
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Persuading consumers to upgrade to a subscription model for Office 365 services has been a weak spot for the company, though, Schlossberg said, as Google's suite of office tools could present competition.
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Firstly because of its "astronomical valuations" – the company sports a P/E of 266 times earnings – and secondly because he believes the company's original content is starting to become a weak spot.
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It was a moment that illustrated that other Democrats see immigration as a weak spot for Biden — and that his ties to Obama can, at least on this issue, cut both ways.
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While the overall U.S. economy remains strong -- with low unemployment and robust consumer spending -- the weak spot in manufacturing could pose a challenge for President Trump as he seeks reelection next year.
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Indeed, one existing weak spot for Hong Kong is that major American tech firms, such as Google, Amazon and Facebook, have set up their regional headquarters in Singapore, perhaps because of cyber-worries.
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But Comey dismantled the defense Clinton's been using for over a year in the matter, jabbed her in her political weak spot -- trustworthiness and judgement -- and practically cut an ad for Donald Trump.
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Tuesday saw banking stocks ease 0.3 percent, following strong gains in the previous session, while oil stocks were also a weak spot as the price of oil fell ahead of the U.S. holiday.
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Tech stocks remained a weak spot after Facebook's data breach issue raised fears that any failure by big tech firms to protect personal data could deter advertisers and users and invite tougher regulation.
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Its instructors can home in on almost any potential weak spot in a college application — even extracurricular activities and personal statements can be curated with the help of one-on-one college counseling.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Productivity in Britain contracted at the fastest annual pace in five years during the second quarter, according to official data on Tuesday that underline a persistent weak spot in the economy.
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Perhaps the virus entered through a weak spot in one placenta's membrane, said Dr. Ernesto Marques, an infectious disease expert at the University of Pittsburgh and the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation in Recife, Brazil.
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That marked the fastest expansion in more than three years as shoppers splashed out on durable goods, an encouraging sign that consumer spending is no longer the weak spot in Japan's economic outlook.
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Income inequality is the second weak spot the White House economists identify, arguing that the Obama administration has made progress in spreading the gains from a growing economy more widely but not enough.
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It's a Herculean test: The race starts with a 2.4-mile open swim (Sewell's strong suit), then a 102-mile bike ride (his weak spot) and ends with a 26.2-mile run to finish.
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A weak spot in the quarter, however, was net investment income , which fell 3.5 percent to $582 million due to lower private equity returns after a slowdown in market activity in the first quarter.
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In an even newer procedure, they can place what's called a pipeline embolization device across the neck of the aneurysm, diverting blood flow away from the weak spot until it shrinks on its own.
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Read has acknowledged that creativity is a weak spot for WPP, especially in North America — a point reinforced by a wave of layoffs that hit one of its largest agencies, Ogilvy, this past week.
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"It's just like the weak spot for Barack Obama was his skin color, but he got cured of that in Iowa," Clyburn, a longtime and outspoken Clinton supporter, told the Washington Post on Friday.
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MEXICO CITY, Nov 11 (Reuters) - Latin America, long a safe haven for Uber, was the biggest weak spot in the money-losing companys latest financial results, registering just 2% growth, the worst of any region.
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While no sector was in positive territory, banks were a weak spot, led lower by a 3.7-percent drop in UBS, the world's biggest asset manager, after results which Baader Helvea said were relatively soft.
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It confronts you with waves of enemy grunts and the occasional boss character who is so huge and slow as to behave more like a stationary turret, complete with an enormous weak spot to shoot.
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A highly unusual death has exposed a weak spot in a groundbreaking cancer treatment: One rogue cell, genetically altered by the therapy, can spiral out of control in a patient and cause a fatal relapse.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's current account deficit has surged to a record high, underscoring a weak spot in an economy that is coming under sharper focus before a vote on whether to remain in the European Union.
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A weak spot on the blue-chip index was InterContinental Hotels Group, whose shares slipped 3.5 percent and were on course for their worst day in nearly a year after the company flagged weakness in China.
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Lance said LNG buyers are taking advantage of weak spot LNG prices, now at three-year lows below $5 per million British thermal units (mmBTU), to demand shorter term contracts and more pricing latitude from suppliers.
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The two deals in question, the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), gave Trump an opening with Rust Belt voters -- and proved to be a political weak spot for Clinton.
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IG, which has over 152,600 active clients worldwide, said new client numbers rose 59 percent from a year earlier, while revenue per client fell 6 percent in the year, with the UK proving a weak spot.
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Mondi was the main weak spot on the index, down 7.6 percent after the paper and packaging manufacturer said full-year results would be "modestly below market expectations" due to cost pressures and negative currency moves.
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Speaking to reporters in Prague, chairman of the NATO Military Committee General Petr Pavel acknowledged the Suwalki gap was NATO's weak spot; but the four battalions "should be rather a political deterrence than a military one".
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In a weak spot, retailer Marks & Spencer dropped 7.1% as it warned trading over the next nine to 12 months in its clothing, homewares and international businesses was likely to be "severely impacted" by the pandemic.
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So already, the virus has exposed a clear weak spot in what you might call the liberal-globalist imagination: an overzealous "remain calm" spirit in the face of the real risks of a hyper-connected world.
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The great weak spot in the labor market in the last few years has been labor market participation — fewer adults have sought work at all, so they are not working but do not count as unemployed.
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The housing market has been a weak spot in a robust U.S. economy, with economists blaming the sluggishness on rising mortgage rates, which have combined with higher house prices, to make home purchasing unaffordable for some buyers.
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LONDON, Sept 8 (Reuters) - Scientists have found a hidden weak spot shared by all five known types of the deadly Ebola virus and successfully targeted it with two antibodies which blocked its ability to invade human cells.
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The housing market has been a weak spot in a robust U.S. economy, with economists blaming the sluggish trend on rising mortgage rates, which have combined with higher prices, to make home purchase unaffordable for potential buyers.
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Pizza Hut, a weak spot for the company in the past few years, grew for the first time in five quarters, while same-store sales at KFC and Taco Bell rose the most in over a year.
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You might not care who knows your weak spot for Kentucky Fried Chicken, but you can see where it's going: Imagine if these "subliminal" images showed politicians, or religious icons, or sexual images of men and women.
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But C.H. Robinson, currently America&aposs largest trucking with $16.6 billion in revenue last year, is realizing that small businesses may be its weak spot — and it&aposs introducing new tools to keep or attract small players.
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However, Krahn does add that, if you have a muscle imbalance or weak spot that you want to shore up, training the same body part twice per day, twice per week, can help its muscles catch up.
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Evercore ISI's Ellinghorst was particularly encouraged by the improvement at the VW brand, which has long been a weak spot for a group that makes cars ranging from upmarket Audis and Porsches to cheaper Seats and Skodas.
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A study published Thursday in Science reveals a weak spot in bat echolocation: smooth, vertical surfaces such as the metal or glass plates on buildings can trick a bat into thinking it is flying in open air.
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LONDON (Reuters) - European shares enjoyed a recovery on Thursday, snapping their longest losing streak since October 2016 as the cyclical sectors which had driven a market-wide sell-off made a comeback, though oil was a weak spot.
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Ericsson's services division was the main weak spot, with sales down on the previous year due to lower rollout activities in Europe and Latin America and operating profit at just a third of what analysts had penciled in.
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Spanish banks have already undergone huge consolidation since the country's financial crisis, with just 14 left from 55 in 2008, but Popular remains the weak spot since it has been unable to sell off its assets fast enough.
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The housing market has been a weak spot in a robust U.S. economy, with economists blaming the sluggish trend on rising mortgage rates, which have combined with higher prices to make home purchase less affordable for potential buyers.
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Shares in engineering firm Rolls-Royce was another weak spot, down 4 percent, after the company announced an annual 4.6 billion pound loss, hit by a fine to settle bribery charges and by losses on its currency hedges.
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It also highlights the global nature of disease control, in which a hot spot of infection in one country can ignite a distant outbreak in an immunization-weak spot of another, said Dr. Scott Lindquist, Washington's top epidemiologist.
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Here's how the company did compared with what Wall Street expected: P&G's Gillette shaving business continues to be a weak spot for the company, with net sales dropping 24.22 percent in its grooming business for the quarter.
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The office has long been seen as a weak spot within the administration, given the huge number of vacancies across agencies and a lack of vetting of several top officials that led to fallen nominees and embarrassing headlines.
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But, "Tesla's service and customer experience remains a relative weak spot, with little improvement in most areas and deterioration in several metrics versus our survey results from 2017," Bernstein's Toni Sacconaghi wrote in a note to clients published Monday.
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If the reigning champion goes into the 10km run anywhere near the front it is almost impossible to see anything but a second gold, though if he does have a weak spot, it could be racing in extreme heat.
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"Daesh exploited a weak spot in the Himrin (mountain) area that is not under control of the (Iraqi) forces and attacked Kusaiba village with 10 vehicles, including Humvees," said Hameed, the Alam official, using an acronym for Islamic State.
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They rarely try to be anything other than what they are, meaning there's no weak spot in their core group of flavors — though, of course, the "clear" variety, which oozes a sweet shock of pineapple flavor, is the star.
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Sanders tends to perform better with men than women, but his campaign is targeting what it sees as a potential weak spot for Biden, while seeking to appeal to some of Elizabeth Warren's former supporters, who were overwhelmingly women.
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A weak spot for Democrats to hammerDemocrats campaigning for the presidency will most likely seize on the lack of progress by Trump on North Korea and Iran to portray the president as a reckless gambler with US national security.
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I love my mom dearly, she's my weak spot and I'd lasso the moon for her, but when she looked at me with sincere confusion, tears streaming down her face, pleading for an explanation, I knew I was in too deep.
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Mining stocks were another weak spot, tracking declines in copper prices and a fall of 2.7 percent in BHP Billiton, as a solid-looking update failed to lift its shares which have risen around eight percent over the last year.
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The pizza chain, which has missed Wall Street expectations for sales growth in six out of the past eight quarters, has been a weak spot for Yum, even as its other chains, KFC and Taco Bell, continue to perform well.
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Diplomats say Kenya's northeastern border with Somalia is a security weak spot, given the challenge of policing a long frontier, poor coordination between security services and a culture of corruption that allows those prepared to pay a bribe to pass unchallenged.
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There are all manner of ways in which the EOS R could disappoint when it ships — video appears to be somewhat of a weak spot, and it'd be surprising if Canon could deliver DSLR-level autofocus performance on its first attempt.
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The GDP report comes amid growing concern that the weakening growth hitting much of the world's economy is spilling over into the U.S. While consumer activity has been strong, manufacturing growth has slumped recently and housing remains a weak spot.
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Japanese stakeholders of the project were initially expected to import the cargoes to meet domestic demand, but weak spot prices in Asia mean that it is not economically viable to ship cargoes from the United States to Asia, traders said.
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"DriverCars believes that the weak spot of Uber is the drivers, because as the prices are being constrained and the share taken from the drivers is going up, there's a lot of drivers starting to protest outside Uber's offices," said Teare.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - A significant slowdown in private investment is a weak spot for the German economy, the BdB banking association said on Thursday, slightly lowering it 2019 growth forecast for Europe's largest economy on trade frictions and weak emerging markets.
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But L'Oreal reported lower-than-expected comparable sales growth of 2.3 percent in the second quarter in its central mass market division, and the United Kingdom, gearing up to leave the EU, emerged as a fresh weak spot across the group.
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"You could argue that the real looks a little bit undervalued on the basis that the economy is coming from a weak spot, and quite frankly the future is looking brighter," said Christian Lawrence, senior market strategist at Rabobank in New York.
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Anyone who can ruin an evening for Donald Trump over his hostile attitude toward women he dislikes and make Vladimir Putin squirm on camera over his hostile attacks against a democracy he hates, has won a weak spot in my professional heart.
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Trade him, as Yahoo's Adrian Wojnarowski has reported they are looking to do, and they could be parting ways with a player just as he's hitting his stride, while also leaving themselves with a huge weak spot at the point guard position.
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LONDON (Reuters) - The pound was on track for its biggest daily slide in a month on Monday after data showed the British economy slowed sharply in April with the manufacturing sector proving to be a weak spot as a results of Brexit uncertainty.
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Malware is popular for the ease in which it allows hackers to quietly pass through a cyber security weak spot, such as attaching to a browser and recording every keystroke made on a computer, which is all sent back to the attacker.
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Of course, that wasn't enough to win her the presidency, but it was a sign that Trump's strongman act, honed in the boardrooms of corporate America and, perhaps, at the military academy where he attended boarding school, might have a weak spot.
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What a nightmare it would be to learn, afterward, that what I praised so mightily as the mark of the poet's brilliance or condemned as the weak spot in an otherwise intriguing work was precisely an invention or compromise of the translator!
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The tumor's ability to escape the T-cells reveals a potential weak spot in the approach of targeting a single mutation, said Dr. Drew M. Pardoll, the director of the Bloomberg-Kimmel Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
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While the growth rate in Lego's revenue had been slowing for some time, 2017's first half is the first time growth has turned negative in years: Other notable details: Even the Dark Knight may have been a weak spot for Lego this year.
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In this work, the research team found a way around this by targeting a weak spot - in the so-called lysosome of the cell - to where antibodies could hitch a ride on Ebola and deliver a punch that blocked the virus' exit and ability to replicate.
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"We ... have confirmation that we are in a bit of a weak spot in Europe, if you look at the services sector and the composite PMI, and this is the reason why you're seeing stock markets in Europe soften," said Ken Odeluga, market analyst at CityIndex.
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He wasn't able to blast away at Clinton's weak spot because she very effectively covered it with a human shield named Barack Obama — forcing Sanders to choose between slamming a president who has a 90 percent approval rating among Democrats and abandoning his key argument against Clinton.
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Millions of working-age people, especially men, are neither working nor looking for work, which remains the lingering weak spot in the United States economy and is most likely a factor in Americans' continued dissatisfaction with the economy (and their votes for Donald J. Trump for president).
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MELBOURNE, Aug 20 (Reuters) - Australia's Oil Search Ltd said on Tuesday that current weak spot liquefied natural gas (LNG) prices would have no impact on any arbitration over a long-term contract between Japan's Osaka Gas and the Papua New Guinea PNG LNG project, operated by Exxon Mobil Corp.
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Seojun Hong, 29, Seoul The North is participating in the Olympics to find a respite from the tightening global pressure spearheaded by the U.S. They will ask the South to "return favor" in economic and political resources, knowing the ruling party of the South's weak spot for the North.
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"It's hard to find a weak spot in the stacked cast, even the ones who only have a few brief scenes," Greenblatt remarks, noting the likes of Letitia Wright, Lupita Nyong'o, Michael B. Jordan, Danai Gurira, Angela Bassett, Forrest Whittaker, Sterling K. Brown, Daniel Kaluyaa, Martin Freeman, and Andy Serkis.
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His latest scrapes are also likely to spur further conversation about whether he has a political weak spot in dealing with outspoken and powerful women -- given that his debate clash with businesswoman and former presidential candidate Carly Fiorina was one of the shakiest moments of an otherwise wildly successful primary campaign.
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Canola's name itself incorporates Canada, the country where it was developed as a new form of rapeseed in the 1970s, making it a national symbol and "a weak spot where they can hit us," a Canadian exporter said, adding that other Canadian exports such as soybeans and canola meal have not faced similar obstacles in China.
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As part of Lucasfilm's strategy to strain the fragile human hearts preparing for the end of Star Wars (until a new movie in the series comes in 2022), the studio has found yet another weak spot it hadn't already prodded: the possible death of C-22PO, the lanky, lovable gold-plated droid who's been with the franchise since A New Hope.
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" And when asked why people don't trust Clinton, POTUS explained, "A lot of this just has to do with the fact that she has been in the trenches, in the arena for 30 years, and when you have been in the public eye for that long, and in politics, folks go after you and they're trying to find a weak spot, and any mistake that you make ends up being magnified.
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Some of the jokes are simplistic and even lazy—Jane Krakowski's character has always been a weak spot, and these days the writers seem to have little idea of what to do with her—but they are never unkind in the manner of the most retrograde-feeling sitcoms on TV today, which often result to simple mockery as the writers struggle to fit two or three jokes per minute into a basically inert premise.
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