This could weaken the euro.
"This could weaken competitive forces, drive up costs and (in procurement) reduce value for money for the E.U. taxpayer," it said.
Some speculate that this could weaken the EU's bargaining position, as governments may be tempted to make a deal with the UK as uncertainty drags on.
As with much economic uncertainty, it is plausible to suppose that this could weaken the pound, reduce domestic and foreign direct investment, and increase borrowing costs," the report says.
Riyadh has an interest in seeing Assad fall because this could weaken its Shi'ite regional rival Iran, which has been allied with Syria since 1980.
But all many of our media pundits can talk about is how this affects politics -- i.e., how this could weaken President Obama's second term or what this might mean for Obamacare.
As a result, this could weaken the observed associations.
This could weaken the association of UF with ST segment depressions in the two-pollutant model.
In addition, patients with metastatic cancer constitute a heterogeneous group, and SPC may work better for patients with some primary diagnoses than for others, and this could weaken the power of our trial.
2) that for some patients the clinical assessment of apathy and the neuropsychological testing took place with a time difference and this could weaken our chances to detect weaker associations.
If the ability to divert attention away from smoking-related cues during retraining translated to a smoker's natural environment, s/he might experience less exposure to the environmental cues that would normally trigger smoking; in time, this could weaken the stimulus response association between smoking cues and smoking behaviour, thus reducing the likelihood of a lapse occurring.
