The phrase "weakening connection" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a diminishing or declining relationship or bond between people, ideas, or entities.
Example: "The constant disagreements have led to a weakening connection between the two friends."
Alternatives: "deteriorating bond" or "fading relationship."
Yet as the modified mice entered adulthood, they were less capable of weakening connections that already existed, and that made it hard for them to form robust new long-term memories.
Three factors were included in the studies reviewed: reduction in the area of certain habitats, reduction in the size of habitat patches, and weakening connections between them.
But reservation boundaries and encroaching development make that virtually impossible today, which can prompt urban migration that further weakens connections to traditional culture and community.
Just as lifestyle interventions can spur weight loss and decrease bad cholesterol, we now know that implementing healthy brain habits can improve neuron nourishing brain blood flow and strengthen weakened connections between brain regions producing positive cognitive change.
These observations suggest that weakened connections to the distal cuticle are key to the altered wing shape of dumpy ov1 mutants.
Similarly, weakened connections between fast-spiking GABAergic interneurons and star pyramidal neurons are observed in L4 of visually deprived animals (Maffei et al. 2004).
The most consistently weakened connections were interhemispheric ones (Fig. 2, right): between the left PMC and the right PMA (P < 0.01, Mann–Whitney U test), the primary motor cortices, (P < 0.05), the left SMA and right PMA (P < 0.05), and the left SPL and right PMA (P < 0.05).
Local government's new responsibility for public health will give it greater influence over key policy areas, but there are risks in weakening the connection with the NHS.
Nevertheless, progressive advocates of social insurance programs have long worried that diverting money from the Social Security trust fund would hurt the program by weakening the connection workers feel between their contributions and their eventual payback.
Answering this question requires weakening the connection between geometry and topology, which we have sought to do here in our experiments.
