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Example sentences for: weakening

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A fine is unconstitutional, and censure would weaken the presidency without weakening Clinton.
The deployment of ground troops has been gathering ever-greater support in the British press since it became clear that the bombing is strengthening rather than weakening Milosevic's resolve to complete the "ethnic cleansing" of Kosovo.
7. The change from numble pie to umble pie to humble pie , attributed to “some anonymous punster in the time of William the Conqueror,” was actually due to the same influences that changed a napron to an apron in the first instance and to the characteristic weakening of the initial h in English, heard today in an historical, an hilarious , etc.
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.
But isn't this sort of like becoming more attractive to investors by weakening the definition of profitability?