Sentence examples for didn't strengthen from inspiring English sources

Putin realised that no one would listen to Russia if he didn't strengthen his position.

"We didn't strengthen ourselves with the moves we made during the winter," he added.

He didn't change the fair, he didn't up the ante, he didn't strengthen his organization, he didn't tighten it up.

"We are disappointed that the CCA didn't strengthen its draft pollution reduction targets," the Climate Institute chief executive, John Connor, said on Thursday.

"Bush didn't strengthen himself tonight, but Kerry's the one who needed to, and he didn't, or at least not enough," Mr. Fanson said.

Harvey and Michael didn't strengthen quite so much, so fast, but they rapidly intensified in the crucial hours before making their final continental U.S. landfalls.

For 30 years after his death, there was a series of feeble reigns that did not strengthen the Cola position.

At first, however, the discovery of the London cartoon did not strengthen the case for the authenticity of the "Sainte Anne," quite the contrary.

In his attempt to reform his empire abroad, Gorbachev destroyed it – just as perestroika and glasnost did not strengthen the Soviet Union, but brought about its downfall.

However, he argued that if Nato did not strengthen its eastern flank in response to Russian actions in Ukraine "it would be a puppet, not a tiger".

Still, it may be that the American invasion of Iraq reinforced the message that the pursuit of forbidden weapons did not strengthen his government.