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We ended the war in Iraq; we are implementing an effective transition and drawdown in Afghanistan; and we have seriously weakened Al Qaeda’s leadership in the fight against terrorism.
The dollar weakened, in this view, because the Fed fell behind the curve and risked losing control of the inflation process.
The rump euro’s weakened exchange rate would lead to renewed economic growth, job creation, and a stronger tax base in southern European countries.
Even in defeat, with the current Commission remaining in office, its credibility may be fatally weakened for the last 11 months of its term in office.
Although Merkel’s characteristically dull campaign approach won her a fourth term as chancellor last year, her electoral base has weakened considerably – a trend that has been reinforced by domestic economic failures.
The CDU has been weakened, and Merkel’s hold over her own party has eroded.
Néstor and Cristina will be dealing with a parliament that is much weakened: laws passed by legislators close to the government allow the president to “correct” the budget and issue “necessary and urgent” decrees that substitute for laws.
They have built up an image of authority and moral inflexibility, and have helped themselves by picking enemies who are damned by all and lacking any kind of power to move against them (the weakened military, for example, or civilian members of the 1976-1983 dictatorship).
Ever since his 1956 Secret Speech denouncing Stalin’s cult of personality, his position within the Politburo had weakened; his support among the Kremlin leadership was shallow, and hardliners sniped at him from every direction.
But those rules were steadily weakened, and by the early 2000’s were widely derided (including by Romano Prodi, Delors’ successor as President of the European Commission), as governments found that they could run large deficits without paying higher market interest rates.
At the same time, weakened leaders in France and Germany are now squarely focused on domestic problems.
Since 2014, the exchange rate has weakened by an increasing amount every year, and is now down over 11% since the drop began, despite intervention by the People’s Bank of China (PBOC) to support the currency (not to hold it down, as US President Donald Trump has alleged).
Moreover, Zuma is weakened but not gone.
On the other hand, with the help of the military-industrial KGB complex – the “ siloviki ” – he has systematically weakened or destroyed every check on his personal power, while strengthening the state’s ability to violate citizens’ constitutional rights.
America’s regional position weakened, and Iran’s strengthened, following the US-led invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq;US intervention in Syria could reproduce that pattern.
A Currency Crash Course for PoliticiansMUMBAI – One major impetus behind US President Donald Trump’s protectionist policies is his belief that China has artificially weakened its currency in order to dump goods in the United States.
Indeed, today’s global economic crisis, if not handled properly, could evolve into a full-scale political crisis – one defined by social unrest, weakened governments, and angry publics who have lost faith in their leaders and their future.
But that view fails to comprehend that a weakened, corrupt, and abusive Central Asia is not in America’s interest, or in Afghanistan’s for that matter.
If this occurs, the outlook for faster, more inclusive growth would be weakened further.
Indeed, the weakened Russia that will be Putin’s legacy will then also lose the Northern Caucasus and the Volga region to their growing Muslim populations.
Moreover, it is high oil prices that weakened the dollar, not vice versa.
Just consider how the current bout has raised global inflation, lowered incomes of the global poor, weakened the dollar, deepened the US trade deficit, aggravated global financial instability, and increased the likelihood of a global recession.
Tax discipline was further weakened.
To put weakened governments on iron rations, as Merkel did, was to make a financial crisis inevitable.
Instead, US banks, widely blamed for the international lending boom that preceded the bust, were so intimidated and weakened that the flow of American credit stopped.
But, in the absence of international consensus on some key points, reform will be greatly weakened, if not aborted.
But the danger in a weakened democracy is not merely blocked legislation and ineffective government.
Europe’s attractiveness as a model of democratic governance would be greatly weakened.
Normally, if a country’s fiscal capacity is weakened, it could respond by coordinating monetary and fiscal policy.
Moreover, a continued standoff between the government and the opposition has weakened political effectiveness, further undermining India’s growth prospects.
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