Pork futures prices are still carrying large discounts to the cash market, which implies a continuing underlying weakness.

But it helps illustrate an underlying weakness in any policy built on the notion that work will make welfare obsolete.

Gains like that, however, masked an underlying weakness in the market.

Some economists remain concerned, however, that the report masked an underlying weakness that already existed or that could lead to a recession.

"People no longer think it is a reflection of some underlying weakness in American competitiveness."

If the opponent penetrates the smoke and mirrors to pinpoint an underlying weakness, a storm may engulf you before you have any chance to fight back.

They both had obsessive personalities, they were tyrants in their professional lives, and they had an underlying weakness: they loved to gamble.

Despite some positive economic signs, Mr. Rewey said that "underlying economic weakness will moderate any near-term sales resurgence."

In one dispatch, he emphasized an underlying weakness in the Argentine armed forces.

The happiness Faye felt at Catherine's safe birth masked her underlying weakness and exhaustion.