Sentence examples for substantially weaken from inspiring English sources

Such practices substantially weaken a building's ability to withstand the dynamic forces of an earthquake.

Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, Democrat of New York, said the Bush proposals would "substantially weaken the privacy rules".

This would inflict more financial damage than soldiers or drug agents have managed in years and substantially weaken cartels.

Iraq is trying to blunt the effect of air strikes that American military planners hope will substantially weaken and possibly topple Mr. Hussein's government.

Bankers have waged a multimillion-dollar campaign to kill the agency or at least to substantially weaken the powers the administration would like it to have.

The Taliban's demands seem incompatible with much of Mr. Obama's strategy, which is to substantially weaken the Taliban through a combination of military force and economic development.

All of which leaves the guild and its 120,000 members in a substantially weakened position, from which the union could find it difficult to achieve substantial gains from the "final offer" that the studios put on the table in July.

"The case was always pretty frail and it's been substantially weakened.

I think that case was always pretty frail, and it has been substantially weakened," he said.

There, local tribesmen rose up against, and have substantially weakened, Al Qaeda of Mesopotamia.

Once again, because of the Champions League, Bayern fielded a substantially weakened team Saturday.