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

No wonder that the efficacy of these tools has weakened.

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.

How to Undermine an Alliance

Nevertheless, our resolve will not be weakened.

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

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

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.

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.

One party government weakens accountability and breeds hubris.

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

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.

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

All bailouts can create moral hazard, because they weaken the incentive to implement reforms that will avoid bad outcomes in the future. To some extent, official crisis lending replaces the pressure from financial markets with pressure from experts and creditor countries politicians.

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

Recognizing that gaps in the access to and use of information technologies by States can diminish the effectiveness of international cooperation in combating the criminal misuse of information technologies, and noting the need to facilitate the transfer of information technologies, in particular to developing countries,

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

Recognizing that gaps in the access to and use of information technologies by States can diminish the effectiveness of international cooperation in combating the criminal misuse of information technologies, and recognizing also the need to facilitate the transfer of information technologies, in particular to developing countries,

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

And, though Erdoğan may well be able to force the protest genie back into the bottle, he will be significantly weakened until the next Turkish election.

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.

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.

Austerity in Europe has confirmed the International Monetary Fund s warning that overdoing fiscal consolidation weakens economic activity, undermines market confidence, and diminishes popular support for adjustment.

However, since it was the only multilateral legal instrument intended to bring about a world free of nuclear weapons, the Treaty must not be allowed to be weakened.

European arrangements must not weaken countries incentives to address the challenges facing them and that means exercising extreme caution when it comes to bailing out eurozone economies.

Without it, the Kim dynasty s hold on power would almost certainly weaken, given Kim Jong un s youth and inexperience, plunging the country into chaos.

Since the 1960 s, such proscriptions have weakened until, in the end, explicit sexuality, violence, blasphemy while upsetting to some people were tolerated as a part of the enlightened world.

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

Using the body it could be sneezing, it could be coughing, it could be animals exactly clapping, whatever.

I can make it larger or smaller, I can change its brass to silver, I could make it a lever. I can change your door, put colors on I can put windows in. I can change a thousand things about your door, and in the two seconds you take to open your door, you're going to notice that something has changed.

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