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

So the gran ministero, as it was called, entered upon its functions: great by reason of its chief, who infused his own life and vigour into what was before a weak administration.

From Cavour by Martinengo-Cesaresco, Countess Evelyn

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