Example collocations logo

Weakened in sentence

695 examples of Weakened in a sentence

Millions die each year, either of outright starvation or from infectious diseases that their weakened bodies cannot withstand.
But that disastrous campaign weakened Mao’s influence; by the early 1960’s he seemed to be relegated to the sidelines while pragmatists like Liu Shaoqi and Deng Xiaoping grew stronger.
Despite a wealth of opportunities across the Russian economy, the country’s hostile business climate – including bloated bureaucracies, widespread corruption, and the expansion of state-owned companies – has weakened Russian and foreign investors’ incentive to start new projects or expand existing ones.
Responsibility for this lays largely with the Bush administration which, by terminating the ABM Treaty, not only weakened the international control systems for nuclear weapons, but also sat on its hands when confronted with the NPT’s imminent collapse.
But, though the guests were expected to return home after two years, these controls gradually weakened as part of the general movement toward free trade and free capital movements.
For centuries, doctors weakened or killed their patients in large numbers through bleeding, until medicine became a science.
The fighting cost Hamas two of its top leaders, Saeed Siyam and Nizar Rayan, and significantly weakened its military capabilities.
It is easy for a president or prime minister to ignore a thousand Web sites; the multiplicity of outlets and voices online, paradoxically, has weakened the media’s power to force accountability from leaders.
The American model had supposedly failed, its reputation weakened first by the Iraq invasion, and then by the financial crisis.
But in a financial crisis, weakened banks cannot lend, meaning that the government must serve as the lender of last resort.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Europe’s leading power for the last ten years, has been weakened.
Thus, central banks wisely stand ready to give credits to weakened banks to prevent panics and bank runs, and to allow an orderly period of closing or merging weak banks.
The risk now is that the forces favoring earlier and effective adjustment of imbalances have been weakened.
The strategic dimension of Chinese-German relations, therefore, can only be strengthened, not weakened.”
The election outcome distorted the actual electoral swing and fueled Malay fears that their political dominance through UMNO had been weakened.
Merkel is politically weakened, and German public opinion remains deeply influenced by the false narrative that the country is Europe’s paymaster.
Even though inequality has been reduced in Venezuela (for the time being), the economy’s growth prospects have been severely weakened.
For economies already constrained by weakened fiscal positions, trade-induced upheavals would be costly.
In a world that is highly integrated financially and prone to episodes of volatility, weakened multilateralism will reduce the ability of global bodies – like the World Trade Organization and the International Monetary Fund – to mediate disputes.
Another lies in having weakened and neutralized the left-wing opposition, and being able to govern without major confrontations in the streets or Congress.
Moreover, with the fires in Syria still smoldering, and Iraq weakened by the sectarian struggle for power there, ISIS or some successor incarnation is likely to remain active.
Weakened by the perception of allowing the West to mistreat Russia, their influence among Russia's ruling elite disintegrated.
Until the euro weakened recently, Chinese bankers had been buying more euro-denominated assets, no doubt recognizing that, despite the frailty of the eurozone economy, Chinese exporters also need European consumers to keep buying their goods.
He won an overwhelming victory in the July 2007 election and faces little serious opposition, particularly as the Turkish military’s influence has been weakened by charges that some high-ranking officers were involved in plots to destabilize the government.
Far from strengthening social institutions, this lack of attention weakened them.
Europe clearly would be better off with Chirac weakened than strengthened, even if it means a temporary slowing of the pace of integration.
Georgia’s tradition as a multinational, tolerant state, which has been weakened in the last 15 years, must be reinvigorated, because we have no need for enemies against which to define ourselves.
Yet Stalin’s purge of military leaders during the Great Terror critically weakened the Red Army, his signing of the Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact in 1939 paved the way for the start of World War II, and his blindness to the Nazi threat in 1941 left the Soviet Union unprepared to resist Hitler’s attack.
But Hollande lacked charisma, and his foreign-policy activism threw into sharp relief France’s faltering economy, which has weakened its standing on the world stage.
Unlike many left-wing leaders who prefer to attack Europe and blame the EU for all domestic ills, Macron believes that France has been weakened by its own failure to implement structural reforms.
BackNext