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How to use the word weakened in a Sentence? Page #4

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The atmosphere for religious extremism has weakened markedly.

Zhang Chunxian

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

As (oil) has weakened and stayed weak, it has become less about oil and more about an indication of generalized global weakness or not.

Jim Paulsen

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I'm not wild about everything in it, i'm sure that's true for everybody. But it is a budget that, as I insisted, invests in our military and our middle class without ideological provisions that would have weakened Wall Street reform or rules on big polluters.

President Barack Obama

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I'm not wild about everything in it, i'm sure that's true for everybody. But it is a budget that, as I insisted, invests in our military and our middle class without ideological provisions that would have weakened Wall Street reform or rules on big polluters.

Barack Obama

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The point is not to bring down Merkel, but to chasten and force her to shift from 'open arms' to a more or less closed border to stem the refugee flow, i predict that Seehofer will succeed ... all the more so since she has been seriously weakened.

Josef Joffe

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Kaczynski's immediate goal will be to find enough lawmakers in the parliament to secure a majority capable of amending the constitution, the changes will probably be in the direction of Viktor Orban's Hungary, where the system of institutional checks on political power has been weakened.

Aleksander Smolar

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

The changes will probably be in the direction of Viktor Orban's Hungary, where the system of institutional checks on political power has been weakened.

Aleksander Smolar

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

In addition to weak economic data such as factory output, inflation expectations data like the BOJ's tankan survey on firms' price projections weakened in recent months.

Yuichiro Nagai

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Risk aversion weakened today as a weak U.S. employment data supported expectations that the Fed would put off the timing of rates hike.

Kim Young-jun

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

So China has weakened more than 2 percent in the last two days, big deal, does that really take away Malaysia's competitiveness?

Marc Chandler

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

In the event of a continued and protracted weakened price environment, we do have options available to us to protect the balance sheet further.

Chairman Clive Newall

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Things have flipped. Blatter did a 180-degree turn and that has consequences for the federation, including Asia, sheikh Ahmad and Salman have been weakened. Those who voted for Blatter because they were afraid can now come out of the dark.

James Dorsey

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Exports remain tough although the baht has weakened.

Supant Mongkolsuthree

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Daiichi's share sale is having some impact but the underlying trend has weakened due to equity-led worries around Jan-March earnings and retrospective taxes on profits of foreign investors.

Subramanian Sharma

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

At the very least I would say that his chances are minimal against Hillary Clinton unless she somehow becomes so weakened as a candidate that the Democratic base begins actively looking for an alternative, that would give him an opening, but it would also open the door for, in particular, (Democratic Sen. Elizabeth) Warren to run.

Tim Hagle

Found on CNN
9 years ago

The regional financing it used to get has weakened and the loss of its leaders has brought this new alignment driven not by ideology but on strengthening its internal structure.

Hassan Abu Haniyah

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Right now, in 2015, fifty years after Selma, there are laws across this country designed to make it harder for people to vote. As we speak, more of such laws are being proposed, meanwhile, the Voting Rights Act, the culmination of so much blood, so much sweat and tears, the product of so much sacrifice in the face of wanton violence ... stands weakened.

President Barack Obama

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

This is a terrorist with a lot of blood on her hands … it’s going to be extremely difficult for the Jordanian government to justify this to the victims of this terrorist atrocity several years ago, jordan has been a very, very important ally to the United States in the war against Islamist terror, but now its position is going to be gravely weakened by this deal with ISIS.

Nile Gardiner

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Overall demand for energy-related products and services weakened.

The Fed

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Disinflationary pressures remain strong while the labor market weakened further, we continue to expect further monetary and fiscal easing measures to offset downside risks to growth.

Qu Hongbin

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

He came into an almost impossible situation, he had a confirmation hearing that really weakened him and he inherited a budget that was impacted by a sequester.

Lawrence Korb

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Chinese banks will likely seek to cut back credit allocations to these firms next year to reflect their clients' weakened balance sheets.

Peter Fuhrman

Found on Reuters
10 years ago

Just as a small fire is extinguished by the storm whereas a large fire is enhanced by it-likewise a weak faith is weakened by predicament and catastrophes whereas a strong faith is strengthened by them.

Viktor Frankl

added by anonymous
10 years ago

A love of tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril; but the new view must come, the world must roll forward.

Sir Winston Churchill, speech in the House of Commons, November 29, 1944

added by anonymous
13 years ago

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