How to Undermine an Alliance

Nevertheless, our resolve will not be weakened.

No wonder that the efficacy of these tools has weakened.

The regime has lost all legitimacy, and its effectiveness is weakening.

On both counts, confidence is undermined, and a downward spiral is set in motion.

It does not weaken the substance of the United Nations counter terrorism programme.

One party government weakens accountability and breeds hubris.

Prognosis In adults, many of the symptoms diminish over time.

The world s poorest countries face the greatest hardship when trade languishes.

The modest advances in some issues, cannot, however, weaken our will or numb our conscience.

Such domestic opposition weakens the prospect that Obama s proposals will ever become law.

Indeed, trust and confidence in scientific research have not been seriously undermined by reports of misconduct.

Its democracy would not grow weaker by becoming tidier rather, it would grow up.

The year long time lag in filling vacant posts impaired the Organization's performance.

Indeed, such structural changes would weaken the elite s grip on political and economic power.

Now GDP growth is slowing, investment is falling, the budget deficit is widening, and the external accounts are weakening.

This practice is considered by some to dilute the influence of shareholders, and to be a distortion of the connection between investment risk and the decision making process.

A law that cannot be enforced deters no one. In fact, it weakens respect for law.

It comes from within, but can be reinforced or weakened by the way others perceive you.

Statistical evidence suggests that this relationship will weaken once the real estate market recovers, but this remains a long run prospect.

Indeed, rather than weakening, the dollar has appreciated as investors regard the underlying strength of the US as a safe haven.

However, we believe that our disagreements during Review Conference have not in any way weakened our achievements in 1995 and 2000.

Over a period of a few years, her muscles will weaken until she can no longer walk, use her hands, chew, swallow, speak, and ultimately, breathe.

Yet, because an exchange rate is a relative price, all currencies cannot weaken simultaneously.

But such a policy diminishes, and may even eliminate, financiers ability to take the easy route by riding the duration yield curve for profits.

He told me that I should stop going to parties and avoid loud music, which is also believed to weaken the body s energy level and therefore affect my health.

The impact of the economic crisis may have been limited by the existence of the national currency that temporarily weakened in H1 of 2009, simplifying the life of the exporters.

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And shall say unto them, Hear, O Israel, ye approach this day unto battle against your enemies let not your hearts faint, fear not, and do not tremble, neither be ye terrified because of them

The quality of financial disclosure could be undermined when consolidation requirements on financial reporting are not followed appropriately.

We believe, however, that our disagreements about how to proceed during the Review Conference have not in any way weakened our achievements of 1995 and 2000.

Encouraging as they are, these results have not blunted the drive and determination of women to move ahead and to play a still greater role in political life.

For example, garbage discharge, something you would think just simply goes away, but the laws regulating ship discharge of garbage actually get weaker the further you are from shore.

However, on 14 March 2008, the FIFA Executive Committee decided to keep the number of participants at 16, concerned that more teams would dilute the quality of play.

Apart from this, the reliability in transmitting high speed data in the fading channel can be improved by using more antennas at the transmitter or at the receiver.

Ironically, Serbia s resistance to the Ahtisaari plan undermines protection for Kosovo s Serbs and increases the risk that they will be mistreated.

It is hard to argue that Israel achieved either of its stated aims in the 2006 war it failed to return Regev and Goldwasser and it did not weaken Hizbullah by pushing it to lines behind the Litani River.

As the war drags on, it is certain that the ranks of the conflict affected population will only continue to grow, while the ability or willingness of the international community to maintain its current level of assistance may diminish.

The report also stressed that the restrictions imposed by Israel on the movement of UNWRA personnel, vehicles and goods were seriously disrupting the Agency's efforts to provide humanitarian assistance to the Palestinian refugees.

Research activities carried out in the Centre laboratories are focused on the development of innovative, environment friendly technologies, such as those aimed at the improvement of crops with very low possibilities of horizontal gene flow.

But we are not careful enough to distinguish situations in which equilibrium restoring forces are strong from those in which such forces are weak.

They weaken it by undermining our elected representatives, whose job is to exercise their good judgment rather than voice the gut feelings of an anxious, angry people.

Of course, Russia is not Serbia. It will survive NATO s further enlargement, although it will be weakened temporarily and pushed into anti Western alliances.

The leaders at the Sharm el Sheikh summit of February 2005 reaffirmed their vision and commitment and created a momentum that we should not allow to wane or to fail.

But unconditional aid only delays reforms, because it weakens budget constraints, which reduces pressure on policymakers and creates moral hazard.