But even here the data, far weaker and less consistent than the smoking studies, seem to be against him.
"The lung fills, but his heart is far weaker than I would like."
She was either in pain or far weaker than she wanted anyone to guess.
Well, the US economy now looks far weaker than last summer.
And Israel will negotiate from a far weaker position than seemed possible just three weeks ago.
When it came to specifics, the speech was far weaker.
But almost every indicator suggests an economy that is far weaker than it was last summer.
There is a growing sense among a number of economists that business conditions may be far weaker than recent data suggest.
Saddam Hussein's military is far weaker than it was a decade ago.
Groups outside the country are in a far weaker position.