Sentence examples for a progressive weakening from inspiring English sources

The appearance of this connection has been facilitated by a favorable international situation, particularly identified with the universalization of human rights and by a progressive weakening of the legal international mechanisms protecting sovereignty.

Developers are getting away with not providing social housing, he said, and the problem is getting much worse because of "a progressive weakening of local authorities to challenge developers".

FSHD affects about 1 in 20,000 people, causing a progressive weakening of muscles in the upper arms, around the shoulder blades and in the face — people who have the disease cannot smile.

Henceforth, Janssen concluded, the effect of the Reformation under the leadership of Martin Luther was a progressive weakening of the German social structure that gradually led to chaos and national deterioration.

Putin's policies rest, it can be speculated, on an analysis of international developments which sees a progressive weakening of both the United States and the EU, contrasted with a strengthening of Russia through the recovery of its internal political coherence and the better exploitation of its energy assets.

This reflected a decentralisation of power and the bargaining between high-ranking nobles so that the king could maintain power, but led to a progressive weakening of the king's rule.

But over the last 25 years, the balance of power has been reordered by a confluence of factors: that progressive weakening of the rent laws, an immensely profitable free market driven by a surging local economy, and the evolution of the rental real estate business, with mom-and-pop operations increasingly subsumed by Landlord Inc.

In this paper, the safety probability of a structure is estimated by considering the progressive weakening of the structure due to repetitive loading events.

In a recent study [ 13] on long-term diabetic patients under active isokinetic conditions, Andreassen highlighted a progressive muscle weakening, the rate of which was strictly related to the severity of neuropathy.

Aging is a gradual process of morphologic and physiologic changes that naturally predisposes older adults to progressive weakening, functional decline, morbidity, disability, poor quality of life, and increased mortality.

In either case, the prolapse follows progressive weakening of the muscles, ligaments, and other supporting tissues around the organ.