Sentence examples for contributed to a weakening of from inspiring English sources

The Republican enrollment decline may also have contributed to a weakening of party leadership.

They said infighting among Dominicans, who number 600,000 in the city, had contributed to a weakening of their political power.

This strategy, coupled with a marked increase in Special Forces operations and drone strikes in Pakistan as well as Afghanistan, has undoubtedly contributed to a weakening of the insurgents.

Both contributed to a weakening of the dollar, which allowed the euro to rise above $1.04, its highest level for two months.The Federal Reserve Bank of New York also sold yen on behalf of Japan's government to keep down the currency against the dollar and protect Japan's tentative recovery.Wall Street wobbled as investors switched to bonds.

It troubles me greatly to consider that parts of my work might have contributed to a weakening of this lifeline.

However, it seemed that those strategies did not increase the managerial jurisdiction of the managers, but rather contributed to a weakening of the manager role in the organisation.

"Frequently," we read, "the U.S. has refused to sell arms to relatively undeveloped countries in order not to contribute to a weakening of its economy".

Worries about a return to the bad old days here and elsewhere in Afghanistan have cast a pall over Herat, contributing to a weakening of its lifeblood — trade — as the 2014 troop withdrawal approaches.

The alteration of materials at the plate interface by aqueous fluids could form clay minerals, which could in turn contribute to a weakening of the mechanical coupling at the subducting plate interface.

This British victory, coming so soon after Saumarez's defeat in Algeciras harbour, did much to restore parity in the region and the heavy casualties inflicted on the Spanish were to contribute to a weakening of the Franco-Spanish alliance which was a contributory factor in the signing of Treaty of Amiens, which brought the war to a temporary halt early the following year.

The loss of this regular structure may contribute to a weakening of the amnion facilitating its eventual rupture.