Europe, whose baseball nations were substantially weaker, also entered two teams.

None of them sounded substantially weaker than the others

"Over the next few months a number of important sectors, including housing, will be substantially weaker."

Many recently public companies have substantially weaker balance sheets - as well as less-promising prospects - than those of the companies that preceded them.

Executives at two leading competitors of Peabody, who asked not to be identified, also said they thought the recapitalization would put the company in a substantially weaker financial position.

The material, reinforced carbon-carbon taken from the shuttle Discovery, is substantially weaker and less flexible than fiberglass.

The economic environment is substantially weaker than the headline numbers.

The Central and Eastern European countries do not want to join a Union which is substantially weaker than it is today.

A substantially weaker legal union contracted by any couple in another state or foreign jurisdiction may not qualify as a domestic partnership in California.

The company also warned that results for this year and next would be substantially weaker than Wall Street forecasts.