Sentence examples for had enfeebled from inspiring English sources

But by 1973, Watergate had enfeebled the administration and Nixon called for Mr. Mathias's re-election, saying they shared "a commitment to good government".

At polling stations, voters seemed to be reverting to patterns that had enfeebled Parliament in the past: ignoring issues while voting for friends, relatives or members of their tribe.

Factions within the party were vehicles for political patronage, and they had enfeebled successive governments, most of them led by antique prime ministers who would serve a brief and ineffectual term.

Worries about what may be lurking on them have contributed to the credit drought that has enfeebled the economies of southern Europe.

Mr Haradinaj's imprisonment has enfeebled his party, leaving the way open for Mr Sejdiu to scoop up the votes of those fed up with Mr Thaci.Indeed, says Engjellushe Morina, head of the Kosovar Stability Initiative, today may mark the end of the political security the prime minister has enjoyed since Mr Haradinaj's rearrest.

The one-sidedness cannot but have disturbing consequences in a poor, semiliterate country where national greatness has become dangerously confused with nuclear bombs and military strength, where rivalries of class, caste, region and religion have enfeebled democratic institutions in recent years.

The exactions of foreign bureaucrats, however, combined with internal decay, had so enfeebled the Canaanite vassal princes of Palestine that it was comparatively easy for the incoming Israelites to occupy most of the hill country east of the Jordan River and in western Palestine during the closing decades of the 13th century bce.

Akram Ismail, an organizer with the Association of Progressive Revolutionary Youth talked to Al Masry Al Youm, "The organization of the working class is a pillar for democratic transformation and the civility of the state," but he noted that the political arena had been enfeebled by "religious versus non-religious" disputes, devoid of class politics.

Reich argues that democracy "has become enfeebled largely because companies, in intensifying competition for global consumers and investors, have invested ever greater sums in lobbying... seeking laws that give them a competitive advantage".

So lately we have seen a parade of writers flourishing long past the age when their predecessors would have become enfeebled or taken the Drabble option.

But all too often the weak have further enfeebled their position by taking an uncompromisingly extreme view.