The move underscored the weakening state of Ford and its two Detroit rivals, General Motors and Chrysler, which are in merger talks.
The industry's strategies include giving firearms, ammunition and cash to youth groups; weakening state restrictions on hunting by young children; marketing an affordable military-style rifle for "junior shooters" and sponsoring semiautomatic-handgun competitions for youths; and developing a target-shooting video game that promotes brand-name weapons, with links to the Web sites of their makers.
Over the coming year, the American Legislative Exchange Council (Alec) will promote legislation with goals ranging from penalising individual homeowners and weakening state clean energy regulations, to blocking the Environmental Protection Agency, which is Barack Obama's main channel for climate action.
He concluded that elements of decline – corruption, a weakening state, poor economic management, skills and capital flight, politics dominated by ethnicity and factionalism, and lack of maintenance of infrastructure – are present in South Africa and will be exacerbated by proposed ANC policies.
They consider moral cosmopolitanism to stress that 'moral judgments and obligations are universal and impartial in nature' (2), whilst political cosmopolitanism, they argue, acknowledges a role for geopolitics but focuses on strengthening just (global) institutions and weakening state politics (2).
Fever, in particular during the second half of the 20th century, which is characterised by heavy use of antibiotics, was regarded unequivocally by main-stream medicine as an unnecessary, weakening state which should be avoided or prevented.
The Arab Spring has allowed it to resurface by weakening states that have long kept sectarian divisions in place, and brutally suppressed popular grievances.
It's in a fairly weakened state.
I hope that the Left in Britain and America will take advantage of Mr. Murdoch's weakened state.
The policy challenges are unenviable, even if Russia has recovered from its severely weakened state.
Writer discusses the weakened world role of the U.S. Foreign investments in the U.S. contribute to its weakened state.
