'Would divorce be impossible?' he asked weakly.

I replied weakly, Because they aren't from our family.

Other authors use strongly white and weakly white instead.

Indian fathers still sometimes repay debts by committing their children to bonded labor.

Democratic societies, by contrast, need to be bonded more powerfully than some chance grouping.

Entanglement probably has little effect on a state like North Korea, which is weakly linked to the global economy.

We now know that chimpanzee society is male bonded, and there is ample evidence of territorial warfare between communities.

Bhatia and I bonded over our shared love of hoops and spent countless hours watching the Phoenix Suns play.

Unlike national markets, which tend to be supported by domestic regulatory and political institutions, global markets are only weakly embedded.

Each has been the other's other,'' and their sometimes friendly, sometimes hostile, relations have bonded them more deeply than either realizes.

Estimates of the government's growing aggregate liabilities (bank debt, un funded pension plans, bonded indebtedness for infrastructural projects, etc.) range from 70 to over 150 of GDP.

As the advanced economies recover, however weakly, the growth differential is likely to narrow again, perhaps to about two percentage points, which still implies steady convergence at a decent pace.

'Is that vodka?' Margarita asked weakly. The cat jumped up from its chair in indignation. 'Excuse me, your majesty,' he squeaked, 'do you think I would give vodka to a lady? That is pure spirit!'

Africa In Mauritania, the last country to abolish slavery (in 1981), it is estimated that up to 600,000 men, women and children, or 20 of the population, are enslaved with many used as bonded labour.

But despite the Hazara people's long term opposition to the Taliban, the group has not always been able to count on support coming from the corridors of power in Kabul, where it is weakly represented, either.

Rural girls and boys who are poor, have little or no education and bonded by traditional social norms and values are most likely to get married early defying the legislations. But that is always not the case.

As of 2011, according to a report by the United Nations, 10 15,000 women and children are trafficked from Nepal to India and the Gulf where they are either forcefully engaged into the sex trade, or sold as bonded labourers.

We now know that chimpanzee society is male bonded, and there is ample evidence of territorial warfare between communities. The initial discovery arose from the assumption that chimpanzees, so close in evolution to humans, could not be as individualistic as Western science supposed.

Unlike national markets, which tend to be supported by domestic regulatory and political institutions, global markets are only weakly embedded. There is no global anti trust authority, no global lender of last resort, no global regulator, no global safety nets, and, of course, no global democracy.