Sentence examples for weakening powers from inspiring English sources

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".

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.

And although James's faltering vocals on the itchy Memphis R&B version of "Groove Me" betray her weakening powers, she brings a salty panache to the most surprising cut here, a fatback swamp-funk treatment of Guns N'Roses' "Welcome to the Jungle".

The majestic mountains darken ominously, the weakening power of the sun's rays diminish with astonishing speed.

The greatest democratic problem today is the weakening power of the nation state faced by threats stretching beyond its borders.

The next and last meeting of the Estates-General was at the beginning of the French Revolution (1789), in the face of a financial crisis, widespread agitation, and the weakening power of the king.

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.

* More than 90 pct of power supplies to southern area knocked out (Adds details on storm weakening, power outages and tourist airlifts).

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

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

The arrangements of 167 served the Roman policy of weakening the powers of the eastern Mediterranean.