Sentence examples for a weakened one from inspiring English sources

But there is some reason to think it might be true for the simple reason that a strong president is a lot harder to brush aside than a weakened one.

Liberals and progressives might want to send tens of thousands of veto pens to the White House to remind Obama that he's still the president, even if a weakened one.

But he only managed to get rid of one tyrant (a weakened one he had a grudge against).

An odious assault on judicial review weakened one of the few serious brakes on executive power that has slowly evolved in Britain's formless constitution.

This is not because the moral arguments have weakened one iota.

In the end, resolution gave way and followed the body: weakened one like the other, one by the other.

I was eleven or twelve then, and I thought that nothing would be better than to get rid of all the troubles that weakened one's body.

Alif thinks that "the few Americans he had encountered in his lifetime had all seemed flat to him, as if freedom weakened one's capacity for intense emotion by demanding too little of it".

The expansion of universal social insurance programs in the post-World War II decades also weakened one of the oldest incentives for having children: support in old age.

Far from being a recent pretext, the idea that marriage is about producing children is an ancient understanding, and a steadily weakening one.

If anything, the movie seems to be both a loose, silvery dramatization and a careful inquiry into what it might be like — what it might wring out of a man, especially a weakening one — to write such a book.