Sentence examples for needs to weaken from inspiring English sources

In Iraq he needs to weaken IS by peeling off some of the Sunnis who fight alongside it.

Bill Patzert, a climatologist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in La Cañada Flintridge, said one hypothesis is that El Niño needs to weaken before the storm track can reemerge over Southern California.

"I just thank God we have nice weather, because I'm pretty sure it's still going to rain and that we're still going to get the mudslides". Bill Patzert, a climatologist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in La Cañada Flintridge, said one hypothesis is that El Niño needs to weaken before the storm track can reemerge over Southern California.

Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani has said he does not see any need to weaken rent protections now.

Union officials argue that there is no need to weaken the job security language in the contract.

Ichiro Ozawa, who is challenging Prime Minister Naoto Kan to be head of the Democratic Party of Japan, said Thursday that action was needed to weaken the yen, Reuters reported.

At the start of February, Vano Merabishvili, the UNM chairman (and former interior minister), told activists in ominous terms of the need to "weaken" the government and prevent it from "weakening Georgia".

Mr. Walker said that that legislation was needed to weaken overly powerful unions and balance Wisconsin's budget, while labor leaders said the legislation aimed to destroy public-sector unions and cripple them politically.

But union officials have maintained there was no need to weaken existing job security provisions, noting that Verizon has trimmed its unionized work force by 15,000 through buyouts and attrition over the last three years.

If a democracy says, "We need to weaken encryption so we can investigate crime," it is harder for it to criticize a repressive regime that does the same thing, but the crime it's investigating is saying something bad about the king, or being gay.

Riad Yassin told the BBC a "short, sharp" campaign was needed to weaken the rebels, who have forced President Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi to flee abroad.