Latent power struggles within the leadership have weakened decision-making processes.
Power struggles over money have also weakened decision-making in Tinto.
However, these defensive barriers can be weakened by decisions made during the design of the barriers and the wider systems in which they lie, and by actions or omissions of those people working on the front line.
Justice John Paul Stevens' admission that his majority opinion in Kelo was partly based on an "embarrassing to acknowledge" misreading of precedent might also weaken the decision's standing.
All of this is part of the long-term strategy I've written about, interviewing those on the right and attending their conferences, in which religious conservatives, dealt a blow by Obergefell, will now work ― as they did regarding Roe v. Wade ― to weaken the decision, and try to turn same-sex marriage into second-class marriage. .
Re "Movement on Meat Safety" (editorial, Feb. 9): As a party in the recent federal appeals court decision regarding salmonella and meat inspection, the National Meat Association disagrees with your statement that the decision "weakened the government's ability to combat bacterial contamination at the nation's meat plants".
The Libya decision weakened Mr. Westerwelle domestically, too — he lost the confidence of his party.
The Supreme Court's decision weakened a federal benefits law, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, or Erisa, which generally insulates employers and insurance companies from state health care regulations, industry officials said.
The senator's supporters said he had been caught in a bind, weakened by a decision to stop negative ads but in danger of losing his luster if he had not done so.
Ed Miliband, who was believed to have earmarked his older brother for the role of shadow chancellor, admitted his top team had been weakened by his decision not to put his name forward for the party's shadow cabinet elections, nominations for which closed yesterday.
