Sentence examples similar to weakened powers from inspiring English sources

These setbacks have reinforced an image of a weakened power increasingly on the sidelines in the Middle East.

He accused the Government of cutting police numbers and weakening powers to tackle anti-social behaviour, insisting Labour would bring about a return to "common-sense policing".

Unlike systems in smaller cities, the energy distribution system in New York and Westchester County is about three-quarters underground to prevent wind, snow and other weather conditions from snapping or weakening power lines.

However, for rare fatal diseases, loss of those with disease would be expected to weaken power.

Havel, too, repeats himself, in token of his weakening powers — repeats himself on topics of household minutiae, the garden hose that needs to be lengthened, the bat inhabiting the vacuum-cleaner closet.

Its success in gaining autonomy weakened the power of Sudan's ruling National Congress Party.

This weakened the power of the ministry, a bloated bureaucracy, but not that of the union.

Mr. Putin has even weakened alternative power centers within the state.

He has not realized when he should stand firm & when he should give in & has thus weakened his power.

What sanctions have not done is weakened the power of the ayatollahs or their private army, the Revolutionary Guards.

The changes to Labour leadership rules has weakened the power of the union vote, making it easier for a Blairite candidate to seize the crown.