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If the president mortgages our future by weakening defense, the price of land will fall.
The growing scandal is expected to hinder the peace process by preoccupying Netanyahu, weakening his hold over Israel's extreme right, and discouraging the Labor Party from forming a coalition government with him.
Given the need to pay such high rates on its debt, the government needed to borrow even more, further weakening confidence and pushing the rates still higher.
Novak ( Meet the Press ) suggests the Republicans will counter the anti-Starr tactics with "Chinese water torture," weakening Clinton bit by bit while keeping him alive.
If one of the dominant motifs of Lacan's early life is his contempt for his father, as it is in this account, then it can seem virtually inevitable that his early work was about the terrible cultural consequences of the "weakening of the father imago" (there were no strong fathers anymore), and that much of his later work should be obsessed by what he called "the-name-of-the-father" and the symbolic significance of the phallus.