the bonds were weakening.

The Narrative Structure of Global Weakening

But his bodily functions are weakening.

She's weakening already, you lucky pup.

What's the matter, are you weakening? No.

So any weakening of the EU in its foreign relations entails a corresponding weakening of the member states individual interests.

In the process, officials are weakening the yen.

Second, and equally important, the extremist vote is weakening.

Weakening the friendship ties existing between the two communities.

Since mid 2007, expectations regarding long term sustainability have been weakening.

But the outlook for 2007 is for weakening global economic growth.

Empowering the Iranian people means weakening Khamenei and his military allies.

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

This worked for three decades, but now the link is weakening.

It recurved toward the southwest while gradually weakening for several days.

Not allowing the necessary consolidation is weakening credit markets, not strengthening them.

It is weakening the West s leading power and strengthening the West s enemies.

Weakening Lebanon has also made it more difficult to rein in Hezbollah.

In the last decade, Uribe s government made great strides in weakening the FARC.

Accordingly, faced with a weakening global economy, they confront two basic policy choices.

Merely weakening this loop, as European officials recently advocated, could prove deeply insufficient.

A5 2 was a deliberate weakening of the algorithm for certain export regions.

But these mechanisms are weakening everywhere, and are virtually non existent in European countries.

Any weakening of these two institutions would cause severe damage to common European interests.

Meanwhile, housing in the United States is weakening again the third large global risk.

The pandemic has a great effect on youth, weakening family and social coping mechanisms.

One strategy for weakening ties among potential evaders is to introduce various conflicts of interests.

In turn, this risks weakening both the government s fiscal position and the economy s external account.

Our animal spirits, to borrow a phrase made famous by John Maynard Keynes, are weakening.

Amid weakening competitiveness, the rupee was propped up by increasingly unstable foreign sources of funds.

Second, there is now evidence of weakening performance in China and the rest of Asia.

The yen s weakening will mean higher import costs, and therefore a higher rate of inflation.

Ms. Patten observed that the report referred to a weakening of labour unions in Turkey.

This is eroding the external surplus, weakening domestic purchasing power, and causing investments to be postponed.

Indeed, weakening banking conditions are emerging as a major threat to the eurozone s recovery and stability.

America should not pin too much hope on a weakening dollar to correct its trade imbalances.

Sixth, QE can create moral hazard problems by weakening governments incentive to pursue needed economic reforms.

The higher interest rates would also apply to corporate bonds and bank loans, weakening business investment.

With global growth weakening, net exports are unlikely to improve robustly, even with a weaker dollar.

The delegation of authority has resulted in procedures becoming progressively streamlined without weakening sound management policies.

The General Assembly must review the proposal without weakening its decision making capacity in this area.

The assignment of priorities when saving money was critical, and weakening productive institutions was never wise.

MUNICH Because China has pegged its undervalued currency, the renminbi, to the dollar, every weakening of the dollar in the wake of America s financial crisis has also meant a weakening of the renminbi vis à vis other world currencies.

Our abstention does not signal a weakening of our opposition to inappropriate attempts to assert extraterritorial jurisdiction.

Weakening of growth as well as jobless growth were putting pressure on social security and welfare systems.