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How to use the word weakening in a Sentence?

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Instead of taking advantage of every opportunity to make Georgia’s elections the most well-run in the country, our legislators are choosing to leave money on the table while weakening the very nonpartisan institutions that protect Georgians’ right to vote.

Kristin Nabers

Found on CNN
1 year ago

So this provides some compelling evidence that experimenting with (going) off coffee might be worthwhile in those individuals who experience bothersome palpitations related to PVCs, there’s also evidence that in some people, more PVCs can lead to a weakening of the heart or heart failure.

Gregory Marcus

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Is there a mechanism bailing Egypt out without Gulf money? Not a realistic one, they (Egypt) are really stuck, and functionally, this regime under Sisi could be responsible for severely weakening Egypt in a geopolitical sense because of its financial weakness.

Timothy Kaldas

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Typically, in good times, the workweek tends to be somewhere between 34.3 and 34.6 hours on average, and somehow it’s slowed all the way down to the bottom end of that range, if it continues to deteriorate, that would suggest weakening demand for labor.

Julia Pollak

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The most urgent task of our time is to strengthen the supply chain’s resilience based on reciprocal solidarity, the pandemic, geopolitical conflicts, the rivalry for technological hegemony, and the weakening multilateral trade system have led to the fragmentation of the global supply chain, causing it to reshape.

Yoon Suk Yeol

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This drop can be pinned on weakening global demand for Chinese goods, as well as some disruption to logistics networks and goods supply due to labor shortages amid the reopening wave of infections.

Capital Economics

Found on CNN
1 year ago

From the satellite data, we're seeing these big fractures spreading across the ice shelf surface, essentially weakening the fabric of the ice ; kind of a bit like a windscreen crack, it's slowly spreading across the ice shelf and eventually it's going to fracture into lots of different pieces.

Peter Davis

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The weakening economic outlook, high inflation, and persistent affordability challenges are impacting buyer demand.

Joel Kan

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The urgent priority is for a peaceful transition of power that respects rights and addresses the root causes of the political and economic crisis which is ultimately about a lack of accountability, corruption and the weakening of institutions that were meant to provide a check on power, if a more stable government... can not be established, the risks are of a humanitarian crisis as well as greater violence and repression.

Elaine Pearson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I think it's too soon to say it will, however, it's likely that the atmosphere will play an increasing role in ice shelf breakup by weakening them through surface melting.

Julienne Stroeve

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Rising inflation, escalating geopolitical uncertainty and the Federal Reserve's actions are driving rates higher and weakening consumers' purchasing power, in short, the rise in mortgage rates, combined with continued house price appreciation, is increasing monthly mortgage payments and quickly affecting homebuyers' ability to keep up with the market.

Sam Khater

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Donald Trump obviously still has a hold on a good bit of Republican Party, but I think that hold is certainly weakening, just speaking with activists on the ground and seeing what happened in Virginia, you can tell that Republican Party still values electability, and since the former President lost, his brand is not as associated with electability.

John Olds

Found on CNN
2 years ago

If you remember, the argument over Trump’s first impeachment was about Trump refusing to give military aid to Ukraine because he imagined he could get some dirt on Joe Biden from the Ukrainians, so why didn’t Putin do this during the Trump administration? Because he thought Trump was weakening Ukraine, especially on this ground. The problem of Ukraine being unfortified goes back several years and much of the fault lies in the Trump administration.

The Atlantic

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

America’s weakening stance abroad and the need for the country to re-emerge as the world superpower it truly is.

Bastion Institute

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

If he thinks that shoplifting is down, and all of his rhetoric about Prop 47 and the success of it is simply just a lie, they’ve caused such a disrespect for the law by weakening our system, by weakening our laws. Newsom has tried to destroy law enforcement, so for him to sit here and say that he wants a more local effort put forth is so offensive to me, because he is the person who is letting these dangerous criminals out of prison on parole left and right.

district attorney

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Targeting Americans' online speech and sending government money to political campaigns is not about civil rights. It's about tilting the playing field, weakening wildly popular voter ID laws and making it harder to produce accurate voter rolls is not about making voting easier. It's about making cheating easier.

Mitch McConnell

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

As the Hungarian forint, and actually all regional currencies, are more or less constantly weakening, this will constantly raise oil prices in our currencies.

Zsolt Balassi

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We continue to expect weakening refinance activity as rates move higher and borrowers see less of a rate incentive.

Joel Kan

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The growing concerns of the weakening economy, the Fed tapering, and the Delta variant were at the front of traders’ minds and when you mix all of that together with the seasonally weak August and coming September period, it all added up to one of the worst weeks we’ve seen in a couple of months.

Ryan Detrick

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

Unfortunately, the bad guys are not stupid. They had eight years to study the Obama playbook, and they know what to do with it: exploit the deliberate self-weakening.

An Obama spokesperson

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

After all we have been through to deliver the promise of this nation to all Americans, we should be fully enforcing voting rights laws, not weakening them.

President Biden

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It's very concerning that The UK government, which claims to be' following the data,' has completely ignored the data and decided to remove masks from schools against all scientific advice, we see several school outbreaks and rapid spread among school-age children across parts of Public Health England... Public Health England's clear that we need to be strengthening these mitigations, rather than weakening them.

Deepti Gurdasani

Found on CNN
2 years ago

[D]espite the fact that we believe any weakening of the House provisions were bad policy and bad politics, the reality is that the final amendments were relatively minor concessions, the American Rescue Plan has retained its core bold, progressive elements originally proposed by President Joe Biden and passed in the House relief package.

Pramila Jayapal

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Energy security equals national security, this is weakening our national security.I mean for the first time in decades, we were energy independent at the end of 2019, beginning of 2020. And when you export more than you import and you're not dependent on foreign countries for your own energy needs, that's a lever of national security.

August Pfluger

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

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