"weaken" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- There is wide agreement among professionals that the profusion of violations and the lack of assigning priorities weakens enforcement and respect for the New York City system.
- The C.F.T.C. fears that narrowing its definition to accommodate the banking industry will weaken enforcement.
- When the Reagan administration came into office in 1981, it weakened enforcement of the previous CAB rules.
- He then embarked on several precipitous moves of his own - reversing a campaign pledge to cut carbon dioxide emissions, suspending rules requiring mining companies to observe sound environmental practices and weakening enforcement of the Endangered Species Act.
- Until last week, they had attacked by stealth and indirection, using the promise of "regulatory reform" to weaken enforcement of those laws.
- "Commissioner Cahill and the Governor should be commended," said Ms. Fox, adding that New York's actions could influence other states that had been weakening environmental enforcement.
- Critics have attacked the Administration for its opposition to discrimination remedies like hiring quotas and school busing, and accused it of greatly weakening enforcement of fair-housing and voting-rights laws.
- Critics contended that the policies weakened federal environmental enforcement to please polluting industries.
- "I am outraged that the agency is considering a proposal to weaken enforcement," said Glen Brand, who represented the Midwest chapter of the Sierra Club.
- Some antitrust lawyers in Brussels said they were concerned that the losing streak would weaken enforcement in Europe as well.
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