Sentence examples for weakened commitment from inspiring English sources

An unwillingness to engage with conservative thought, an aversion to debate, and a weakened commitment to free speech are among the failures of the left.

He avoided talk of the debilitating level of corruption within the government, the weakening commitment to human rights among many Afghan officials, the faltering economy and uncertainty about next year's presidential elections.

Mr. Green's announcement comes as political and business leaders have begun expressing concern about what they fear is a weakening commitment from the federal government to help New York City recover from the World Trade Center Disaster.

Officials in Brussels warn that signs of a weakening commitment by European leaders to fighting climate change could start a chain reaction, lowering ambitions among other central players, like China and India.

Assimilation forces might weaken commitment to family who remain in immigrants' homeland.

Nor had the United States weakened its commitment to Eastern Europe by scrapping plans to deploy the controversial antiballistic missile shield there.

French diplomats turned to winning the Italians away from the Triple Alliance, and a Franco-Italian secret agreement in 1902 substantially weakened the commitment Italy had made to Germany and Austria-Hungary in 1882.

The changes would provide an "evidence base" for making decisions about applications, he said, denying that they weakened a commitment to sustainable development.

"In the past quarter-century," he wrote in his excellent book, Learned Optimism, "events occurred that so weakened our commitment to larger entities as to leave us almost naked before the ordinary assaults of life..

We weakened our commitment to the Social Charter and single currency in order to achieve a consensus.

As we see from Table 4, the strength of native-place ties has a different effect on employees' commitment: close ties enhance the commitment, while not-so-close ties weaken the commitment.