Mujica said that by regulating Uruguay's estimated $40 million-a-year marijuana business, the state will take it away from drug traffickers, and weaken the drug cartels.

At least two states have weakened it:

To physic men in our state would but weaken us still more.

After three years, when he had finally quelled the revolt, the Crimean foothold was lost and the state and the sultanate's army had weakened.

Many critics of devolution say the states may weaken existing Federal standards over the environment, the workplace and other areas.

The centralized state weakened after losing the tax revenue of those under the protection of large landowners.

Investment, capital, and commerce were liberalized as technology advanced and the central state weakened.

But, Nina's mental state weakened.

Over the decades they gradually assimilated into the indigenous population and their state weakened.

"Any state in the region should be weakened, dismembered in order to protect the Israelis."