1.  Also weakening the Communists is the Constitution Yeltsin created last year, giving him almost imperial power and insuring a weak opposition.

2.  Albright urged the journalists to work with the weak Croatian opposition for democratic change.

3.  Even with a weak opposition, he was often criticized for quashing debate over NAFTA.

4.  It could be that his control of the Army and police, combined with a weak opposition, keeps threats at bay.

5.  With weak opposition and the elaborate use of fraud, PRI candidates almost always won easily.

6.  Yet even battered Republican Guard divisions would be too much for the weak opposition forces to handle in urban combat.

7.  A weak leftist opposition is pitted against a strong national consensus around generally pro-business politics.

8.  Bean, ridiculed for fighting weak opposition, gave it all he had but fell far short.

9.  But even a weak opposition majority in the lower house is a historic change.

10.  It played inconsistently in warmup matches, overwhelming weak opposition but struggling against better teams.