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

For, indeed, it was no time for weak administration and divided counsels.

From Rulers of India: Lord Clive by Malleson, George Bruce

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