Sentence examples similar to weakened facade from inspiring English sources

Mr. Manocherian, who had said he wanted to preserve the exterior when he bought the building in 1976, contended that the facade was so weakened by the bomb blasts that he had to replace it, though this was never firmly established.

You step back today and think, "My God, it's stood up well!" However, this, you discover later, is not the original facade: age, weather and chemical pollution had weakened the surface to such an extent that, in the early 1950's, every stone, column, capital and carving had to be duplicated in sturdier materials.

Thirty-three floors up, the facade of a skyscraper at the corner of 54th Street and Madison Avenue, weakened by construction work, had peeled away in a hail of bricks.

weakened Congress.

Or weakened by sentiment".

"It weakened us.

We've weakened ourselves.

The yen weakened immediately.

Those feelings have weakened.

Newspapers have weakened him.

Consumer spending has weakened.