Sentence examples for was kept weak from inspiring English sources

The leadership of the army, which was kept weak under the Gaddafi regime to guard against his overthrow, was forced into retirement along with the leadership of the police forces, and the intelligence apparatus was totally dismantled.

As long as civil society is kept weak, China's social problems will get worse.

Unlike Kenya's thriving business community, its booming safari industry or its reforming judiciary, Mr. Njeru said, the national police service has intentionally been kept weak for decades so it could be manipulated by politicians.

Cavity couplings are kept weak (i.e. insertion loss > 30 dB at resonance), so that only minor correction factors are needed to extract unloaded Q factors from the raw data.

The Robins were close to going in front again through Pearson after 73 minutes but his weak effort was kept out by Davis.

When an animal appeared to be weak, it was kept separately from the others to prevent cannibalism.

The United States has been pushing China to strengthen the value of its currency against the dollar, arguing that the renminbi is kept artificially weak to raise Chinese exports.

When Parliament opened this month, the red-and-white Swiss banners adorning the chambers were a novelty in a land where government authority is kept deliberately weak in a federal system of 23 fiercely independent cantons.

The fires and the exploitation must be stopped, yet the institutions meant to hold corporations and the military accountable are deliberately kept weak.

Although comparable frequencies of S326C were observed in all three study populations, the possibility thus needs to be kept open that weak effects on CCA susceptibility from this variant may exist.

However, some contents, especially all items reflecting sexuality and other potentially embarrassing issues, could not be kept because of dramatically weak psychometric properties.