Sentence examples for having weakened from inspiring English sources

Khrushchev criticized Stalin for having failed to make adequate defensive preparations before the German invasion of the Soviet Union (June 1941), for having weakened the Red Army by purging its leading officers, and for mismanaging the war after the invasion.

But Bingham never acknowledged any guilt, instead blaming soldiers for having weakened the building by removing interior columns, and he lobbied Congress for reimbursement until his death in the late 1870s.

The total had fallen from 3,530 in total in 2012, with 2,714 of them in Britain – although this was due in part to the pound having weakened against the euro, with UK bankers paid in sterling.

But with President Obama's political standing having weakened substantially since his election two years ago, the crop of Republicans who are at least thinking about seeking their party's nomination appears even larger at this early stage than the last time around, when more than a half-dozen Republicans often shared the stage at debates and the race was wide open.

The most recent victim, a popular women's magazine, was accused of "threatening the psychological security of society" and of having "weakened military and revolutionary institutions".In January, after several participants in a call-in television show criticised a recent salary increase for government employees as too small, the Saudi authorities stopped any programme from being beamed live.

The growing concerns within Hong Kong's business community come against a slowing economic backdrop, with the stock markets having weakened considerably since last year both in China and in Hong Kong, and a growth forecast at its lowest levels in the past decade.

Those feelings have weakened.

Newspapers have weakened him.

Consumer spending has weakened.

We've weakened ourselves.

But resistance has weakened.