Sentence examples for diminished opposition from inspiring English sources

It has diminished opposition to Putin and driven Russia back to autocracy.

As their fortunes diminished, opposition leaders again refused regime demands that they abandon Aleppo, insisting that they remain as guarantors of the safety of civilians who have stayed behind.

The past month has seen an emboldened prime minister, a diminished opposition, an improbable cabinet reshuffle, and the rise and fall of a political truce between the government and the opposition.

Even with a diminished opposition, the path to legalization faces considerable obstacles, especially from parents who don't want their teens to be too easily tempted by the drug, city residents who envision street corners teeming with kids getting high, and sheriffs and police chiefs who say marijuana arrests remain a powerful tool against drug abuse and other crimes.

The ruling generals, many assert, are laying the groundwork for Mr. Mubarak to be transferred from a prison hospital to the relative comfort of a military hospital, or perhaps trying to build sympathy for the longtime autocrat to diminish opposition to his former prime minister, Mr. Shafik.

This serves to spread misconceptions about the potential impacts of wind energy on human health, which either fuels or diminishes opposition to wind turbine project development.

An exemption for senior citizens could diminish some opposition.

The generational shift change has greatly diminished the organized opposition.

"His party still exists but is seriously diminished … The opposition at this point does not have a strong figurehead and there is no evidence of any significant mobilisation," said Hoebeke.

Though this opposition diminished in his later years as former opponents came to appreciate his spiritual integrity and the need for new perspectives.

Three years of vicious crackdown and a radicalising opposition have diminished Bahrain's protest base, which once included Sunnis, thereby helping to justify the rulers' narrative.Observers document ongoing torture and reckon prisons now hold some 4,000 detainees from a local population of 750,000.