Sentence examples for weakening ties from inspiring English sources

In addition, inmates serve their sentences in prisons far from their families, weakening ties that help prisoners stay clean after their release.

The mayor justified the decision to reduce the Patum's links to the church in the context of a secular society with weakening ties to Catholicism.

Russia's president hoped at one point to nip up to Riga to upstage the NATO summit and mark the birthday of his French counterpart and friend, Jacques Chirac but this plan fizzled out.That Mr Putin should be so anxious to strengthen Russia's weakening ties with its "near abroad", and with his few remaining Western allies, is understandable.

President Hollande was clear that this was not about weakening ties with America.

Yet, the distance from Britain and the isolation it imposed strengthened rather than weakened ties with it.

The killings have badly strained the already weakened ties between the Bush administration and the Palestinian Authority.

Mr. Miliband, himself the son of Jewish immigrants, emphasized the importance of relations between Israel and Britain on Tuesday and said the uproar over the forged passports should not be used to weaken ties between the countries.

The war in Chechnya weakened ties between the centre and the non-Russian republics and polarized Russians and non-Russians (about 19% of the population) in a way not seen since 1991.

This was an effective strategy to weaken ties by spreading fear, anxiety and distrust.

However, stigmatization not only leads to marginalization through various policies, but also has the potential to weaken ties and social support received from law-abiding citizens (Petersilia 2008).

"President Obama's feckless foreign policy has emboldened our adversaries, weakened ties with our allies, and threatens to break faith with our military," she wrote in a statement to The Huffington Post.