Certainly, the weakening contract prices are a blow to the company as it struggles to stay afloat under the weight of massive debt. |
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In the SOFAR channel, low frequency waves may travel thousands of miles before weakening. |
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The harambee movement has since been politicized, weakening the partnership between the state and local communities. |
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They do have a problem with the procurement of future hardware, but that is no excuse for weakening our current defence capability. |
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Ominous storm clouds darkened in the U.S. this week, as a faltering equity market and weakening dollar joined a troubled Credit market. |
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The goal of conservatism is to defend our civilization from decay and decadence, from a weakening of our principles. |
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With the expectations of Bank of England hiking rates next week the sterling will see some weakening. |
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The weakening of lordship and the cheapness of land had provided conditions which the yeomen and gentry were best positioned to exploit. |
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Cracks from sun scald can allow insects, fungus, virus, or other damage to gain an entry and begin the process of weakening the tree. |
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They are about weakening the union and opening up the civil service for privatisation in the future. |
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Once irreverent and perhaps even iconoclastic, these shows relied too heavily on his reputation and weakening force of personality. |
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At the same time, ignoring political questions means actually weakening our ability to fight on economic issues. |
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Growth in the euro area is clearly weakening but inflation is uncomfortably high. |
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A better scenario would be for the dollar to depreciate against the euro, and for sterling to share part of that weakening. |
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That, in turn, played a key role in weakening the power base of the old political establishment. |
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He felt the body reel inwardly, weakening as his anger surfaced, stressing the spell that held the body in corporeal form. |
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The shadow of the other festivals is to blame, but so too is the weakening of the arts programme itself. |
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Currency movements are notoriously difficult to predict, but signs point to further weakening of the dollar. |
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He now spends his days driving his weakening cattle back and forth across the valley first to find meagre pasture and then to find water. |
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When de Gaulle returned to power in 1958, the western alliance was weakening. |
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The country's economic weakness resulted in a weakening of its military capability. |
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For increasing the pivotability without weakening the chain, the front edge of the middle hinge part is maintained at full width. |
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With the sprinkler systems disabled, the fires raged uncontrollably, weakening the steel and leading to the collapse of the buildings. |
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The tip of the stick is often driven into the cloth with force, weakening the structure of the weave, and pitting the playing surface. |
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The weakening of the Federalist party and its eventual demise a few years later were largely due to Hamilton's wrong-headed meddling. |
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Any weakening in the all-powerful US economy could have a nasty flow-on effect. |
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That storm system is now progressing on a northeasterly course, but it is weakening quickly. |
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Isabelle could feel herself physically weakening and she rested her hand against the wall for support. |
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The most significant outcome is weakening of the skeleton leading to fractures, loss of height, impaired quality of life and even death. |
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The Romantics turned self-destruction into a literary convention, further weakening the stigma attached to the act. |
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Oddly enough, the benefits he conferred upon the common people had the result of weakening the aristocracy, the social class from which he came. |
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He said that the biggest contributor to the price increase would be taxes and the weakening of the rupiah against the U.S. dollar. |
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Ministers have bowed to pressure by weakening a series of expensive regulations after protests from cash-strapped home owners. |
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He haunted her mind and terrorized her dreams, weakening her and draining her of her strength. |
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After this, they enter the leaf midribs and eventually the stalk through which they tunnel, weakening the plant and reducing potential ear size. |
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As in 1662 the Anglican squirearchy would permit no weakening of the hierarchical and episcopalian structure of the Church. |
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The mobile military had done nothing, the ground cannons were a similar failure, and there had been no pre-emptive weakening phase. |
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Anti-social behaviour, feral youth and weakening of communities form a triad of concerns that cuts across politics. |
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The weakening of the currency has encouraged the country's non-oil exports such as tuna fish, fresh fish, and vegetables. |
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The soft underbelly of Europe, the Balkans, which is constantly being destabilized, is a great weakening of all of European civilization. |
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One aspect of these changes was the weakening of the orthodox heterosexual double standard. |
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Even the road, usually a flat gray path, glowed like a soft yellow ribbon in the slanting, weakening sun. |
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Pelvic organ prolapse results from a weakening of connective tissue or loss of muscular support. |
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As a result, the orbitals become deformed, weakening the existing bond between molecules. |
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This week's interest-rate decision by the Bank of England's monetary policy committee is on a knife-edge, amid further evidence that the economy is weakening. |
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Some also say they see changes afoot among the Minangkabau that may be weakening the adat system. |
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By the early eighteenth century, operatic juxtapositions came to be seen as part of a standard order of representation, weakening the original shock-effect of the genre. |
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The country still refuses to capitulate despite its weakening army and dwindling resources. |
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In an experimental laboratory study, Daley showed that weakening in the hinge area facilitates rapid fragmentation of the shell even before disarticulation is achieved. |
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Neuromuscular diseases are characterized by progressive weakening of skeletal, respiratory, bulbar, and, in the case of myopathies, cardiac muscles. |
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Dublin jewellers are experiencing a drop in engagement ring sales, as romance pays the price for Luas roadworks and a weakening economy, according to the city's jewellers. |
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All nine parties agreed that the dependency ratio of people currently in and those outside of the labour force is weakening, which means steep challenges for society at large. |
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Plus, the beef delivers an extra dose of zinc, which protects against weakening of the immune system. |
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Municipal reform might well replace a patrician oligarchy of local gentry and merchants, weakening collective action and undermining the corporate, civic culture. |
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The result is that the ruddy duck's genes, stronger, more virile, dominate the union, producing ruddy duck dominated hybrids and weakening the white-headed duck strain. |
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The idea is to promote a more holistic approach to conservation without either weakening current provision or introducing burdensome new restrictions. |
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Like Franklin D. Roosevelt, his efforts at first were devoted to preventing further weakening of an army that many, Hitler among them, regarded as irrelevant. |
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In women after the menopause, the lack of oestrogen can lead to a weakening of the muscles associated with the bladder and the urethral sphincter. |
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Although we live in an age marked by relativism, ever-increasing secular concerns, and concomitantly weakening religious influence, the term is far from anachronistic. |
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The provisions weakening Dodd-Frank may still become law and the cromnibus may still pass. |
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It was one of the first companies to warn last October that performance was being hit by weakening demand for mobile comms handsets and higher client inventory levels. |
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Burton had promised that weakening the big shots would heighten the accountability and responsiveness of Congress. |
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As to dropsies it is now well comprehended that the weakening from hydragogs more than counterbalances the benefit derived from the excretion of fluid. |
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The zonalisation of circulation does not support laminae-favourable meteorological situations due to the weakening or absence of the northerly component of transport. |
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On the other side of the coin, cereal growers are receiving much-improved grain and oilseed prices as a result of a good harvest and a weakening of the pound against the euro. |
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The domination of the new cabinet by Manchus and their Mongol allies seriously damaged the already weakening links between the Chinese and their foreign rulers. |
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There are no indications that the resolve of members is weakening. |
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Around 1400 the weakening of the Golden Horde shifted the fur trade from tribute down to Volga to commercial exchange through Crimea. |
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He dies without heir in AD 156, thereby weakening Roman influence in Britain. |
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In the struggle against the influence of such revelations, the counterattractive force of appeals to consider British interests was weakening. |
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In 202 BC, internal problems led to a weakening of Egypt's position, thereby disrupting the power balance among the successor states. |
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Primogeniture was ended both for nobles and peasants, thereby weakening the family patriarch. |
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The weakening economy caused several episodes of social unrest in the region, including the 1926 general strike and the Jarrow March. |
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Capacity for bursts of torque should not be confused with field weakening capability. |
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Field weakening allows an electric machine to operate beyond the designed frequency of excitation. |
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Field weakening is done when the maximum speed cannot be reached by increasing the applied voltage. |
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By 1914 the conscience was weakening and by the 1920s it was virtually dead politically. |
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Today, the Church of Scotland is weakening as a state church, and church membership in the country is declining. |
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As a result, Austria had to keep sizable forces on the Serbian front, weakening its efforts against Russia. |
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The Luftwaffe believed it was weakening Fighter Command at three times the actual attrition rate. |
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The sultanate's raiding and weakening of the regional kingdoms of South India paved the way for the indigenous Vijayanagara Empire. |
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A crisis emerged in Yugoslavia as a result of the weakening of the confederational system at the end of the Cold War. |
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This strengthens the drug industry while weakening the efforts of law enforcement to monitor the flow of drug money into the legitimate economy. |
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Angry governments gained an incentive to ignore the Continental System, which led to the weakening of Napoleon's coalition. |
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The two fought for years over control of the party, badly weakening it in the process. |
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The privatized programs impact the livelihood of the pastoralist societies while weakening the environment. |
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On 16 January 1780, the Royal Navy under George Rodney scored a major victory over the Spanish, weakening the naval blockade of Gibraltar. |
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The German army had used up its last reserves and was steadily shrinking in numbers, further weakening its resolve. |
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In late 2009, gold markets experienced renewed momentum upwards due to increased demand and a weakening US dollar. |
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Meanwhile, the Franks under Marcomer had taken the opportunity to invade northern Gaul, at the same time further weakening Maximus' position. |
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However, the dredging of the river for the barge may be responsible for a weakening of the tidal bore. |
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The Yufirid emir Abdullah ibn Qahtan attacked and burned Zabid in 989, severely weakening the Ziyadid dynasty. |
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The German goal of significantly weakening the British Navy by sinking a large part of it and ending the blockade was not achieved. |
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The dollar price of energy increased again the following year, amid the weakening competitive position of the dollar in world markets. |
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With his southern flank weakening, Philip was forced to withdraw in the east and turn south himself to contain John's army. |
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The weakening of the economic system combined with the effects of plague left Egypt vulnerable to foreign invasion. |
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This began to starve French ports of commerce, further weakening France's economy. |
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The situation in northern Europe today is complicated by the current tectonic activities nearby and by coastal loading and weakening. |
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This effect results in a negative feedback process that can inhibit further development or lead to weakening. |
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If it remains over mountains for even a short time, weakening will accelerate. |
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Thermal erosion is the result of melting and weakening permafrost due to moving water. |
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In some cases, the slump is caused by water beneath the slope weakening it. |
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The weakening of unstressed syllables merged many different Old Dutch classes of nominal declension. |
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According to rumour, exposing the Visigoths in battle was a convenient way of weakening the Gothic tribes. |
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Many kings came to the throne at a young age and died in the prime of life, weakening royal power further. |
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Outlaws ravaged the country without interference from the weakening Yuan armies. |
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Political and institutional instability have contributed to the weakening of the sector's institutions at the national and local levels. |
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All rebellions were ultimately put down, but at enormous cost and with millions dead, seriously weakening the central imperial authority. |
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As the only major allied power sharing a land border with Germany, France was chiefly concerned with weakening Germany as much as possible. |
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Sabotage is a deliberate action aimed at weakening a polity or corporation through subversion, obstruction, disruption or destruction. |
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These battles destroyed the Indian confederacy which had been the main ally of the British in that region, weakening its negotiating position. |
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Khoury said the schism within the Maronite community in Lebanon is weakening its role in Lebanese politics. |
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The development may result in trajectories of weakening, strengthening, or stabilizing for these employee-organization linkages. |
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The weakening of obstruents in sonorous environments, especially between vowels, is a very common phenomenon in languages all over the world. |
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It contains Xyleine, a vegetal active ingredient that works by weakening hair protein and lightening the pigment. |
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Even if no weakening effects were noticed after one or two overheatings, the cumulative heat effects would cause embrittlement and failure after subsequent overheatings. |
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This finding supports the premise that estrogen deficiency may contribute to the development of BPV by weakening the bond of otoconia to the utricle, they wrote. |
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This weakening enabled a major trough to form and intensify up to the upper troposphere, 200hPa level and, by model prognostics, shape into a neat cut-off vortex pattern. |
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The ratcheted handle has a unique locking mechanism for increased lock security as well as preventing ratchet weakening as seen with traditional ratchet handles. |
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Albaraari was bang on until weakening inside the final furlong to finish fifth to Aphrodisia in that one miler and a drop back in trip should suit her. |
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Notwithstanding this distinction, he indicts Eliot for weakening her condemnation of male abusiveness by also seeming to blame the victim, Janet, for her own predicament. |
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We show that no extension of random dictatorship to weak preferences satisfies these properties, even when significantly weakening the required degree of strategyproofness. |
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Finally, other scholars argue that the very prosperity of the Empire inspired the provinces to achieve a high degree of independence, thus weakening the imperial court. |
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The result is an unacceptable ethnocentric bias, a false presumption of Canadian sovereignty and even a potential weakening of the moral basis of the Canadian state itself. |
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On August 16, 1648 the Imam dispatched an army to Muscat, which captured and demolished the high towers of the Portuguese, weakening their grip over the town. |
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Although the rebellion was defeated by the Tang, it never recovered from that crucial blow, weakening it for the future military powers to take over. |
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Due both to the weakening of the US dollar and an increasingly strong Thai currency, by March 2008 the dollar was hovering around the 33 baht mark. |
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The rapid German advances were the sign of a weakening enemy. |
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One practical argument in favor of reduction is the idea that economic inequality reduces social cohesion and increases social unrest, thereby weakening the society. |
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By 1914 the linkage was weakening and by the 1920s it was virtually dead. |
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Reform was gradual and the regime itself carried out agrarian reforms that had the effect of weakening absolutism by creating a class of independent peasant freeholders. |
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These included a weakening of the feudal power of the nobles and an increase in the power of the merchant classes, and the growth of a centralised monarchy under the Tudors. |
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Weakening this norm could embolden other regimes to acquire or use chemical weapons. |
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