Sentence examples for subtle weakening from inspiring English sources
You won't notice any subtle weakening caused by such pressure but over time, this treatment of the tool can lead to it breaking unexpectedly during use.
Members of the President's inner circle privately voiced their worries that Mr. Enrile had somehow been party to the incident, either as a potential participant if the uprising had gathered broad public support or in a subtler attempt to weaken the positions of both Mr. Marcos and Mrs. Aquino while strengthening his own.
The agreement followed the Four Articles of Prague but weakened them with subtle clauses (e.g., the council granted the Czechs the Communion in both kinds but under vaguely defined conditions).
At the least, attacks on the civil rights legacy must be indirect and subtle, as in the Supreme Court's weakening of the Voting Rights Act.
Some rather colourless performances further weaken a sense of subtle, living immediacy.
Petrosyan's play, subtle and tirelessly patient, was designed to weaken an opponent's position gradually rather than to crush it at a single blow.
9 Weakening of connections among these regions following stroke may have led to subtle deficits in language task performance.
But an apparently subtle change over the last few months has shifted the balance of power dramatically, significantly weakening the position of the FIA under its president Jean Todt and strengthening that of Ecclestone.
- On the other hand, it is also possible that HARP interferes with RPA2 phosphorylation through a more subtle mechanism, such as by interfering with the kinase activity of DNA-PK or by weakening DNA-PK-RPA2 interactions.
Though Tibetans worry that China is trying to weaken Tibetan culture — a claim Beijing denies — some believe their culture is also under subtle attack in Dharamsala.
His hundreds of subtle, ironic and innovative verses reflected alternating periods of calm and stress as the Communist Party's rule stabilized, weakened and then, in 1991, quickly disintegrated.
