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

At this time, in fact, a weak administration had suffered the empire to be torn asunder by convulsions.

From Travels in China, Containing Descriptions, Observations, and Comparisons, Made and Collected in the Course of a Short Residence at the Imperial Palace of Yuen-Min-Yuen, and on a Subsequent Journey through the Country from Pekin to Canton by Barrow, John, Sir

It had been succeeded by a weak administration, resting on two or three loosely knit groups—with Ashe as leader of the Opposition.

From The Marriage of William Ashe by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.