Sentence examples for believed weakened from inspiring English sources

This, it is believed, weakened the foundations of the structure.

Gov. Perry understands the need to continue to work toward a solution to the Palestinian problem, but does not believe weakening Israel is the road to peace.

In its battle to win over the hearts and minds of the backers and the media, offering a guarantee will go a long way, but the guarantee is limited in a few important ways, which I believe weakens the company's commitment to tidying up its image.

He believed it weakened the Islamic world by dividing it into more than 50 nations, and he equated it with the pagan state of ignorance before the revelation of Islam to the prophet Muhammad.

It was common for castles in the East to have arrowslits in the curtain wall at multiple levels; contemporary builders in Europe were wary of this as they believed it weakened the wall.

The White House has defused repeated threats of legislation it believed could weaken its hand or sabotage negotiations.

Public knowledge of historical costume was increasing by the 19th century, though some critics disapproved, believing it weakened the plot.

The reduced occupation of corner and edge atoms on the Pt surface during the Pt particle size increase is believed to weaken the adsorption of the oxygenated species on Pt, and thereafter releases more available active sites for ORR and also renders the Pt surface a stronger resistance against potential cycling.

Keynesian economics, they believed, was weakening Britain.

Frustrated at negotiations with the Republic and believing it weakened by both the Darul Islam and Madiun insurgencies, the Dutch launched a military offensive on 19 December 1948 which it termed 'Operatie Kraai' (Operation Crow).

Such a conformational change may be stimulated by the phosphorylation of subunit C [49], [50] which is believed to weaken the surface interactions between an EG-C complex formation [16].