Sentence examples for weakening hold from inspiring English sources

Santa's weakening hold on children.

Wald examines the entire three-day festival in forensic detail, placing the headline historical event in a thorough context, which shows more clearly the burgeoning divide between the old guard's weakening hold, as the more traditional acts played to diminishing crowds, and the immense power wielded by Dylan, whose new fans overwhelmed the occasion.

The state religion which the monarch pledges to uphold has a weakening public hold.

"Traditional Protestantism," with its emphasis on economic productivity and self-denial, "was weakening its hold, and Muir was one of those cutting away at its roots".

The increasingly violent tactics used by security forces against protesters eroded support for Ṣāliḥ within the Yemeni government, weakening his hold on power.

In the same year, an electoral reform reduced the tax requirement for the right to vote from 10 to 5 florins, thus enfranchising the more prosperous Czech peasants and weakening the hold of the German middle class.

And it has legitimate commercial interest in weakening the hold of three companies — Rio, BHP Billiton, another British-Australian mining giant, and Vale do Rio Doce of Brazil — on international iron ore pricing.

For instance, they argue that the revolt of nature over the predictable certainties of Minoan religion probably crippled the authority of the priestly ruling class, weakening its hold on society.

Internationally, the main effect has been lower oil prices and weakening the hold of OPEC.

But the rescuers were concerned that the cadets were too weakened to hold on properly.

The end of isolation would strengthen liberals and weaken the hold of the clerical and military elite.