Sentence examples for progressively weakening from inspiring English sources

After the electorally suicidal lurch to the far left after 1979, Neil Kinnock, John Smith and Tony Blair managed to rebuild a party capable of winning again in 1997 – but they did so only by abjuring socialism and progressively weakening the link with the unions.

But Bénédicte Jeannerod, France's director for Human Rights Watch, said France had been progressively "weakening" judicial oversight in its counter-terrorism efforts, and "the normalisation of emergency powers crosses a new line".

For starters, he now predicts that one out of every five working Americans, or 20%, will be unemployed within a couple of years in a progressively weakening economy.

Such a scenario might be largely in keeping with true federalist principles, but consequently it would also signify a progressively weakening central regime.

Easterly wind shear exposed the low level circulation to the east of the area of deep convection, though Paul continued to intensify as it moved through an area of warm waters and progressively weakening wind shear.

The protracted war progressively weakened the Nationalist regime.

This is one reason the health-care bill has been progressively weakened.

The AE count rate increased before fracture, as the samples progressively weakened.

MND progressively weakens the muscles until the sufferer cannot do anything by himself.

On Sept. 10, 1995, the walls of one mine complex collapsed after being progressively weakened by fires.

In 1997, Mr. Mann was diagnosed with muscular dystrophy, a condition in which muscles progressively weaken and atrophy.