Sentence examples for weakened authority from inspiring English sources

Michael Dugher, the Labour MP for Barnsley East, said the announcement will be a "hammer blow to Prime Minister David Cameron's already weakened authority".

Michael Dugher, Labour's shadow minister for the Cabinet Office, described the defection as "a hammer blow to David Cameron's already weakened authority.

Labour's shadow minister for the cabinet office, Michael Dugher, meanwhile, said: "This is a hammer blow to David Cameron's already weakened authority.

Never show weakened authority!

John II (the Good; reigned 1350 64) succeeded to a weakened authority and kingdom; he was a mediocrity whose suspicions and impetuosity were ill suited to the changed circumstances.

In Ostrogothic Italy, the deaths of Theodoric, his nephew and heir Athalaric, and his daughter Amalasuntha had left her murderer, Theodahad (r. 534 536), on the throne despite his weakened authority.

Yet as the time of reckoning approaches, there are those, like Mr. Brodsky, who fear that consolidating power in the executive director's office has weakened the authority.

Although it is technically true that the United Nations already has sufficient legal authority to deal with Iraq, the failure to act when Saddam Hussein ejected the inspectors has weakened that authority.

But recession and resurgent German nationalism have weakened the authority of E.U. institutions.

She then called an election that lost that majority and weakened her authority at home and in Europe.

But critics felt the move weakened the authority's leadership and made it more vulnerable to influence from the governor's office.