Sentence examples similar to weakened pretext from inspiring English sources
This arbitrary detention comes amid a rash of measures taken by the Macri administration that have weakened the rule of law on the pretext of security, economic freedom and the war on drugs.
Democrats have said that House Republicans' clashes with Rosenstein are little more than a pretext to weaken Mueller's efforts.
Republican leaders have kept their distance from calls to remove Rosenstein from office, and Democrats have argued that the GOP's clashes with the deputy attorney general are little more than a pretext to weaken Mueller's efforts.
They present the Kir'Shara to the Command and reveal that the embassy bombing was merely a pretext to weaken the pacifist Syrranites prior to the Andorian strike.
The theory goes that the recent kidnappings of foreigners in Kenya were merely a convenient pretext for the invasion - that al-Shabab has been fatally weakened by its "horrific ineptitude" in the face of the famine and its dwindling foreign support, and that the next few months could see the militant group ousted from its key port of Kismayo and effectively finished off inside Somalia.
Or weakened by sentiment".
Those feelings have weakened.
Newspapers have weakened him.
Consumer spending has weakened.
