The weakness may affect specific muscle groups or may affect the entire body.

The outlook for next year will depend on whether the continuing weakness in the housing market affects spending.

Several major weaknesses in the design and execution of the trial could have affected the outcome.

But it is even more disturbing as a study of ways in which the older generation's weakness and debility can affect the younger.

Soviet economic weakness could profoundly affect arms talks and the maintenance of the empire from Afghanistan to Cuba.

The weakness of public finance gradually affected the economy at large.

This weakness typically affects appendages and is localized to either the left or right side of the body.

The weakness of the airlines affected the industries that cater to or support it.

But Mr. Robinson acknowledged that the weaknesses have not yet affected economic performances of the countries.

Inattentive corporate management, Federal economic policy and the general weakness of the economy affect the nation's competitiveness, too.