"Life was too short for Roger to be defeated by illness, so when Roger's body became weak, we saw how his mind become sharper, " Emanuel said.

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My body is weak.

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However, something is amiss, when, in the service of advocating a particular policy, activists and health authorities have to base their claims on a weak body of evidence and ignore a much stronger and more rigorous body of painstakingly accumulated data, which helps put the matter in perspective.

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The crash tests found the Latin American model had a weak, unstable body structure that offered occupants little protection in even non-serious wrecks.

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"You realize the weak points of the body and how fragile the ankles are, and you're strengthening that, " she said.

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When it's weak and destabilized, the body is susceptible to serious injury.

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What breaks depends on where the 'weak links' are in your body.

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Gomez opened the scoring in the 44th minute after his weak shot found its way under the body of goalkeeper Elinton Andrade.

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EU's new foreign-policy chief, will also be put in charge of the ten-nation Western European Union, a weak but explicitly military organisation which the larger body is now expected to swallow up, though this raises awkward questions about countries more involved with one than the other.

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"Your whole body feels just like sore and your jaw hurts, you know, you're pale, you feel weak the next day, " she said.

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