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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.
Over time, the policy should try to weaken and eliminate the network's infrastructure in order to reduce it to a "rump group" like other formerly feared but now largely defunct terrorist organizations of the 1980s.
A fine is unconstitutional, and censure would weaken the presidency without weakening Clinton.
Weisberg's technique is to selectively choose those titles from each critic that illustrate his point, while remaining deliberately oblivious to reviews by the same critic that would weaken it.
The conservative journalists and other reactionaries who have shoved her story onto the nation's front pages hope not only to cripple the president's ability to control the Republican-led Congress, but weaken his support among women voters, who backed him overwhelmingly for re-election and will be equally instrumental in promoting Al Gore to the Oval Office in 2000.