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First, the financial crisis has
weakened
the United States and Europe.
Debate surrounding the subject has covered many of the trend’s repercussions, including decreased social cohesion, growing slums, exploitation of labor, and
weakened
middle classes.
The currency, unsurprisingly, has
weakened
from a peak of 3.1 reais to the dollar in mid-April.
Another promising initiative – the “optional protocol on communications,” aimed at enabling children and their advocates, for the first time, to bring cases before the UN Human Rights Committee – has been similarly
weakened
by a lack of strong support, authority, and resources.
But the fact remains that, if Trump’s heated protectionist rhetoric continues, the US will face a strong dollar, severely
weakened
exporters, and a much larger trade deficit – not to mention heightened tensions with a formidable China.
Financial markets responded by demanding much higher rates on the bonds of countries with high government debt ratios and banking systems
weakened
by excessive mortgage debt.
These “sudden stops,” as the economists Guillermo Calvo and Carmen Reinhart call them, raised risk premiums and
weakened
the affected countries’ fiscal positions, which in turn increased risk, and so on, creating the vicious downward spiral that characterizes self-reinforcing crises.
Elsewhere in Europe, Germany’s severely
weakened
chancellor, Angela Merkel, is struggling to forge a coalition government.
With Louisiana’s ability to protect itself
weakened
and the center of disaster relief badly undermined, an inadequate government response and unnecessary destruction were almost inevitable – with the poor paying the price.
But the global economic crisis has
weakened
Russia’s oil economy, shattering the KGB’s dreams of a return to superpower status.
As in the 1980’s, when Mikhail Gorbachev came to power with no choice but to introduce his polices of glasnost and perestroika, a politically and economically
weakened
Russia will have to find other solutions to its development and modernization challenges in the years ahead.
While most eyes are on events in London and Rome, it is Germany that offers the best clues to the EU’s
weakened
state.
President George W. Bush’s response to the attacks compromised America’s basic principles, undermined its economy, and
weakened
its security.
And this, too, was weakened: as the US violated basic human rights like habeas corpus and the right not to be tortured, its longstanding commitment to international law was called into question.
With these measures in place, Saddam’s Iraq was
weakened
almost to breaking point.
Globalization does appear to have
weakened
cultural differences noticeably in the past decade.
The motivation to implement further reforms of the internal market has weakened, leading to a situation in which even decisions by EU leaders at their European Council meetings can go ignored.
Why should Israel continue to focus on a
weakened
West that is constantly reprimanding it when the rest of the world beckons?
In the north, Tuaregs traveling to Mauritania, Algeria and Niger, were particularly
weakened
by persistent drought and the collapse of the caravan economy.
Solidarity, though weakened, proved to be a permanent fixture in Polish politics.
During this time, capitalism – smooth and successful between 1945-1975 (sustained high growth, low unemployment, and no financial crises) –
weakened.
As a result, consumption weakened, unsteady employment grew, and unemployment stopped declining.
Whenever Assad has been weakened, Sunni jihadists, including ISIS and al-Nusra Front, have filled the vacuum.
The first factor is diminishing returns to capital, which
weakened
the growth-enhancing effects of, say, investment in transport infrastructure and residential construction.
In just over two months, the yen has
weakened
by more than 10% against the dollar and close to 20% against the euro.
Multilateral institutions that served as pillars of German foreign policy for almost half-a-century have been weakened: the European Union's hopes for common foreign, security, and defense policies have been gravely jeopardized.
The Shalit deal clearly gave a boost to the war camp in Palestine and
weakened
its champions of peace.
North America’s shale-energy revolution has
weakened
oil and gas prices, while China’s slowdown has undermined demand for a broad range of commodities, including iron ore, copper, and other industrial metals, all of which are in greater supply after years of high prices stimulated investments in new capacity.
Divided by their different interpretations, Muslims do not play the role they once did in the world; instead, they are
weakened
and victimized.
By contrast, Muslims fatally
weakened
their ability to defend themselves by neglecting, even rejecting, the study of allegedly secular science and mathematics, and this myopia remains a fundamental source of the oppression suffered by Muslims today.
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