"weaken" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- They want to expand military programs, weaken international institutions and run the world by flaunting power.
- Because he was concerned that a new university could weaken existing institutions, he opted for a more exciting, albeit riskier, endeavor-an independent research organization that would increase basic scientific knowledge.
- It has weakened democratic institutions, but it has also neutralized threats posed by guerrilla groups, fought the narcotics trade and opened up the Peruvian economy.
- Since 2002, when the 27-year civil war ended, the country has worked to repair and improve ravaged infrastructure and weakened political and social institutions.
- The spirit of independence and revolt which the invaders were bringing into the country could not but weaken clerical and monarchical institutions.
- "The Government calls it the modernization of public services, but we consider it a way to fire workers and weaken public institutions."
- Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions by claiming their activities violate civil rights.
- This increased the proportion of poor within the ghetto and also weakened civic institutions and investment in the local economy.
- The bursting of the bubble has thrown the economy into disarray in recent months, weakening some major corporations and financial institutions, which are now expected to benefit as a result of the new stimuli.
- But Congress and the state legislatures failed to take into account the existence of more than 1,000 severely weakened institutions.
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