Sentence examples for substantially weakening from inspiring English sources

But construction industry job losses have more than tripled in the past six months, suggesting that new-home construction has slowed substantially, weakening one of the props that has supported the recovery.

As a consequence we also improve a result from Dindoš et al. (2007) [4] for the Lp solvability of non-divergence form operators (Theorem 3.2) by substantially weakening the condition required on the coefficients of the operator.

Had the lawsuit succeeded, 6.4 million people scattered across two-thirds of the states would have lost the financial assistance enabling them to get health coverage, disrupting insurance markets and substantially weakening President Barack Obama's signature domestic policy accomplishment.

While few pieces of GOP legislation garner dozens of Democratic yeas, the vote was far closer than other deregulation bills that Waters had decided not to fight on the floor -- either because the CFTC had already adopted their key terms, or because she'd secured amendments in committee substantially weakening them.

However, only 4% of the total follow-up time was contributed by individuals who were age-eligible for these programmes, substantially weakening the case for attenuation in risk due to underparticipation in screening.

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.

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

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.