Protracted economic stagnation, particularly in Asia, would also weaken future demand.
The central bank's rationale, that the cloudy economic picture abroad will weaken future demand, smacks of a directional hunch.
With North Korea showing no signs of giving up its nuclear option, some analysts believe a widening rift between Russia and the US could weaken future six-party talks.
Representative George Miller, a California Democrat who is chairman of the House Committee on Education and Labor, said the proposal would "weaken future workplace safety regulations and slow their adoption".
About 200 representatives of three of the biggest tobacco companies, Philip Morris International, British American Tobacco and Japan Tobacco, spent four weeks in the city, hogging hotels and spending more than €3m (£2.5m) on an action plan to weaken future regulation in two parts: persuading the European commission, and trying to convince MEPs and national governments.
Experts say that certain countries — like Russia and Poland — were allotted too many credits in the first Kyoto commitment period and that the unused and tradable credits would weaken future emission goals under the protocol, if carried over to the second commitment period.
But many researchers fear the reorganization could weaken future support for several disciplines.
Many Democrats, scientific organizations, and environmental groups are pushing back, calling the bills thinly veiled attempts to weaken future regulations and favor industry.
Many Democrats, scientific organizations, and environmental groups have called the bills thinly veiled attempts to weaken future regulations and favor industry.
Iraq The U.N. agreement with Iraq is only a deadly intermission, weakening future inspection efforts, enabling Saddam Hussein to sell more oil and increasing opportunistic pressures from France, Russia and others to ease or end sanctions.
A major accident in Arctic waters will do more to weaken future drilling than hundreds of kayakers in every port of North America.
