Sentence examples for weakening himself from inspiring English sources

"They're not concerned," he said, adding that Mr. Hughes had struggled with pneumonia and asthma this year, perhaps coming back to work too quickly and weakening himself.

In the same breath, you can imagine Romney — and he does have this tendency to sort of pander to his base — you can see Romney fighting for his life, switching positions, pandering to the right wing, basically over the course of the race weakening himself as a candidate.

If Trump is indeed making lots of mistakes and politically weakening himself, other Republicans won't mind sticking the knife in and twisting.

But his advisers say that the time to compromise will come later and that he would only weaken himself if he started retrenching now.

He seemed instinctively to be a one-nation Tory, yet weakened himself from beginning to end by trying vainly to placate the Conservative party's radical and europhobic right wing.

One theory had it that Mr. Silver had weakened himself politically by attempting to block State Comptroller H. Carl McCall's unofficial candidacy for governor in 2002 in favor of Andrew Cuomo, the secretary of housing and urban development.

But part of the reason why Boehner fought so hard over the shutdown was that on the previous occasions when he violated the Hastert Rule to allow for bipartisan votes on high-profile issues like the fiscal cliff, relief spending after hurricane Sandy and legislation to prevent violence against women, he angered his caucus and weakened himself.

Since God is essentially omnipotent, omniscient, perfectly good, and eternal, it is clear that God is not free to weaken himself, to become ignorant, to do something evil, or to destroy himself.

Frank Luntz, the Fox News focus group leader, also weakened himself in his post-debate focus group.

As Hudak told me, understaffing departments as Trump has done doesn't just make it difficult to get work done, a president without his team in place "weakens himself".

When he gets home and she picks up the fallen sock, banging her head, he feels himself weakening.