"weaken" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

weaken verbo

weaken + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 33
weaken one's position • weaken one's ability • weaken the system • weaken the power • weaken bones • ...
(3) system, muscle
Kolokacji: 2
(4) bone, case, argument
Kolokacji: 3
(5) resolve, NATO
Kolokacji: 2
(7) defense, institution
Kolokacji: 2
1. weaken one's control = osłabiać czyjś kontrola weaken one's control
2. weaken standards = osłab standardy weaken standards
3. weaken regulations = osłab rozporządzenia weaken regulations
  • He weakened regulations on corporate polluters, so do you believe it when George Bush tells you he's going to be the environmentalist President?
  • The bill would have weakened federal regulations against employer establishment and control of employee involvement programs.
  • The Bush administration has spent the better part of three years weakening federal regulations and belittling their value.
  • Yesterday's ruling was the latest in a recent series of legal and regulatory moves that have weakened regulations limiting the size of media companies.
  • Doesn't this underscore once again the dangers that pervade the Bush administration's drive to weaken or abolish regulations protecting American consumers?
  • The bill resurrects an effort to weaken environmental and other regulations that conservatives have been pressing for several years.
  • The F.D.A.'s new policy threatens to weaken established regulations protecting the food supply.
  • In the last few years, Ms. Browner has fought and won other environmental battles, over the agency's budget and Republican efforts to weaken environmental regulations.
  • Critics call the policy the "senior death discount" and say the administration is turning on older Americans as a rationale to weaken environmental regulations.
  • This Administration cannot be allowed to weaken the wetland laws and regulations, and the public should not be taken in by the propaganda circulated by developers.
(9) Russia, Iraq, Empire
Kolokacji: 3
verbo + weaken
Kolokacji: 6
begin to weaken • continue to weaken • begin weakening • cause to weaken • help weaken • ...
weaken + preposición
Kolokacji: 21
weakened by • weaken in • weaken with • weaken to • weaken over • ...
weaken + adjetivo/adverbio
Kolokacji: 45
further weaken • severely weakened • greatly weakened • rapidly weaken • significantly weaken • ...

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