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All papers report that three (France, Russia, China) of the five permanent members of the Council abstained from voting, which might weaken the council's position and the possibility of Iraq's compliance; the U.S. and Britain were the two permanent members that supported the measure.
This new leadership may test its relations with Israel according to modern concerns of economic cooperation, which may replace, or at least weaken, the ideology intended to perpetuate the conflict."
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."
They want to expand military programs, weaken international institutions and run the world by flaunting power."
However, statistical adjustment for known confounders did not weaken the association between the pattern of tap water consumption and cryptosporidiosis.