Sentence examples for long weakened from inspiring English sources

Long weakened by clientelism and abuses of power, stunned by five years of recession and austerity, it is now perilously close to giving up the ghost.

The speed with which they were moving into other districts, drawing new recruits to their guerrilla force of about 4,000 men and women, and building a pervasive underground in Katmandu, had made many Nepalese suspect the old system of government, long weakened by indolence and corruption, could simply topple.

But there is already speculation about how long a weakened Mr Medvedev will stay.

France's social fabric has long been weakened by mass unemployment.

On that long journey, weakened by hunger and illness, his mother died.

"It could rob us of the international high ground we worked so hard to reach, break the united international front we constructed, and in the long run, weaken the pressure on Iran by opening the door for other countries to chart a different course," Clinton wrote.

Not long after weakening into a depression, the storm entered the CPHC's area of responsibility.

Ismael dissipated not long after weakening to a depression on August 25.

It could rob us of the diplomatic high ground we worked so hard to reach, break the united international front we constructed, and in the long run, weaken pressure on Iran by opening the door for other countries to chart a different course," Clinton wrote in the January 26 letter.

It is time for the new Democratic Congress to reverse a decades-long weakening of regulations and face up to the food-safety threats of the 21st century.

What compounds that worry is that the marshes, sea grasses, oyster beds and barrier islands that provide the nurseries for those larval fish, shrimp and other marine life — and that provide natural barriers against storm surges from hurricanes — had already been dramatically weakened long before the BP spill.