Ever since the dodgy election of 2009, threats and sanctions have not weakened the regime's determination to proceed, but rather weakened opposition to it.
But the BBC would rather weaken what it has than lose a bit of its empire.Cutting spending on factual content may be dangerous for the BBC, however, as news and documentaries are the programmes that most clearly fulfil its responsibilities as a public-service broadcaster.
Changes in Japan's final demand reduced imports from Asia 7 and the US, and, judging from the input coefficient factor, Japan's industrial linkages with Asia 7 and the US rather weakened.
Bloodying our collective hands in vengeance would, rather, weaken our civilization into something less.
We assessed the data according to subgroups of OHCA and IHCA, but conversely, the sample size is rather weakened.
Rather, weakening of the wall of major vessels by tumour erosion, necrosis, cavitation, or other concurrent pathological conditions are likely to play a central role.
[ 9] Reviewers' comments that force authors to rewrite a paper "in ways that sometimes do not support, but rather weaken" their arguments have been a concern in social science disciplines for decades [ 10].
You'll learn that qualifiers (very, rather, pretty, kinda) weaken your writing.
It spreads the burden of military action, sustains rather than weakens our alliances, and takes the edge off the world's instinctive anti-Americanism.
Those who ask the public to support leaving, after 40 years of membership, have failed to set out an alternative that empowers rather than weakens Britain.
