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Of course, this approach will also weaken the privatization plan’s structural impact; but even the sale of minority stakes promises to improve transparency and corporate governance.

During the past decade, the US and its allies have tried to weaken, and then, starting in 2011, to topple President Bashar al-Assad’s regime, mainly in a proxy war to undermine Iranian influence in Syria.

In practice, however, the construction of legal foundations could weaken the Chinese government’s operational flexibility when responding to a Taiwanese move toward independence.

This announcement could well weaken that plan’s already limited prospects.

Poland, Slovakia, Belarus, and Ukraine – with their 100 million people – will be stripped of an important source of revenue, which will weaken them economically and make them more vulnerable to Kremlin pressure.

The longer the standoff lasts, the more likely it is to sully Xi’s carefully cultivated image as a powerful leader, and that of China as Asia’s hegemon, which would undermine popular support for the regime at home and severely weaken China’s influence over its neighbors.

Abdullah’s proposal could weaken his position domestically, particularly in relation to the country’s powerful Islamists.

In Brazil, the government’s efforts to weaken the central bank’s independence and meddle in energy and lending markets have harmed growth.

Germany’s relative insensitivity to rising costs could also explain why its government is comfortable with a strong euro, whereas France and Italy have been calling on the European Central Bank to weaken the currency.

Given that he does not have to fear electoral defeat, he could help Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy by filing first, which would weaken the political stigma for Rajoy’s government were it to file subsequently.

Inside Lebanon, Hezbollah has interpreted UN demands for its disarmament as a plot by the Bush administration to weaken the party, and as a means of affirming American supremacy in the region.

But European officials—and not only the ECB-- seem very reluctant to admit that their economy is faltering, fearing that it will further weaken confidence and add to the slowdown pressures.

There is, as always, Germans’ deep-seated fear of inflation to overcome, along with the belief that too much easy credit will weaken the pressure on southern European countries to reform.

Kim now seems to have decided that his best hope for boosting North Korea’s economy, without reversing progress on its nuclear program, is to weaken the international coalition enforcing the sanctions.

Even in this “enlightened” age, many find it difficult to acknowledge new scientific data showing that female sexuality does not diminish or weaken women, but strengthens them in some ways – whoever they are, of whatever age or sexual orientation, whether alone or in relationships.

Rising unemployment adds to a sense of economic insecurity, and may further weaken consumption.

“We ought to do all we can to weaken the bad feeling, which has been called out through our growth to the position of a real great power.

With the notable exception of the Fed, central banks fear the impact of an appreciating currency on domestic companies' competitiveness too much not to intervene; indeed, an increasing number of them are working actively to weaken their currencies.

The most obvious bargaining chip that could be offered to make the North Korean regime feel more secure is a reduction in US troop levels on the Korean Peninsula and in Asia in general, With that, the US security guarantee for Asia will weaken, in turn providing China an opportunity to step into the geopolitical breach.

In a floating exchange rate system, a currency should weaken in the face of chronic weakness in the economy.

The direct explanation is that the Bank of Japan kept monetary policy tight, so that the currency did not weaken alongside the economy.

Other Asian countries should let their currencies weaken, too.

But the fire metaphor rules out such elementary questions as how to ensure that anti-crisis measures will not weaken the forces of market recovery, or how to measure such measures’ longer-term consequences.

One cannot simultaneously defend the Alliance in the name of Europe and weaken Europe with fits of populism and economic nationalism.

There are three reasons why Grexit could still seriously weaken Europe's monetary union.

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The second factor is that BNP’s case came to a head at a time when US prosecutors were being accused of treating banks as “too big to jail,” for fear that pressing charges against them would weaken them too much and thus undermine the real economy.

Although Trump’s alienation of America’s allies does serve Putin’s seeming desire to weaken the West, it is unlikely that he has taken these steps for Putin’s sake.

But the proposed US-India accord is attracting notice for a second, and far more controversial, reason: concern that it could weaken, rather than advance, efforts to resist the further worldwide spread of nuclear weapons.

This will severely weaken global trade, thereby undermining economies’ growth prospects, while preventing the world from confronting shared challenges.

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