weak administration
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Sarraj’s U.N.-backed but weak administration holds Tripoli and parts of the west.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 24, 2019
Conde's camp argues it has had to balance delivering quick fixes with pushing through the deep reforms needed in a country crippled by a chronically weak administration.
From Reuters • Sep. 26, 2013
A Pentagon official monitoring Iraq acknowledges that a weak administration could invite a coup.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The British government seized the opportunity of Adams's weak administration to close the West India ports to American shipping.
From A Short History of the United States by Channing, Edward
Mr. Dominick Daly, afterwards knighted when governor of Prince Edward's Island—who had no party proclivities, and was always ready to support the crown in a crisis—became nominally head of a weak administration.
From Canada under British Rule 1760-1900 by Bourinot, John George, Sir