1.   We also expect marketing margins to be weaker in the first quarter because of the effect on demand of the generally mild weather.

2.   H antigen was expressed to a varying degree in all biopsy specimens but was weaker in the distal colon.

3.   Already a weak rebounding team, the Rockets are even weaker in that area with the Thorpe trade.

4.   At the same time, all categories of domestic spending, including consumer outlays, were somewhat weaker in the summer than in the first half of the year.

5.   BHP warned that steel prices are weaker in the current quarter.

6.   Brazilian interest rates were little changed and currency futures slightly weaker in thin trading after the central bank shifted the mini-band within which the real is allowed to trade.

7.   But concrete is far weaker in tension than in compression-typically just one-tenth of its compressive strength.

8.   But economic strength is making us weaker in head and soul.

9.   But it is weaker in the intermediate stage of fabric production, the transformation of fibers into cloth.