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Example sentences for: weaken

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If we favor one tool while neglecting others, we leave ourselves vulnerable and weaken our national effort.
But, she went on, "the airstrikes could not only provoke Serbian retaliation against NATO forces in Bosnia, but trigger ethnic conflict in Macedonia, which has a large ethnic Albanian majority," and a Balkan explosion would severely weaken NATO.
Would an admission of lying about Monica weaken Clinton's claims in the other Starr matters?
A fine is unconstitutional, and censure would weaken the presidency without weakening Clinton.
But that view gained momentum Friday with the judge's declaration that "it is Microsoft's corporate practice to pressure other firms to halt software development that either shows the potential to weaken the applications barrier to entry or competes directly with Microsoft's most cherished software products."