In other countries, negative pressures on families have weakened their cohesiveness.

The effects of the latest round of international sanctions on Iran are somewhat ambiguous they have weakened the country, but they do not seem to have weakened Ahmadinejad.

Regimes that eroded the autonomy of policy setting needed to be reformed and checked.

The Japanese enlarged administration and appointed local leaders, which weakened the authority of local traditional leaders.

As a result, the comparison and integration of agricultural statistics with other statistics was impaired.

Trade practices have weakened the bill of lading system and an attempt for repair should be made, in the interest of the carriers as well as the cargo side.

China and Europe might find common cause in the vacuum left as America s domestic energy revolution weakens its commitment to the region.

A political pendulum of reform and reaction, and of populist and pragmatic cabinets, weakened the republic for most of its history.

Moreover, the sanctions had severely affected the development of the private sector, thus seriously undermining the ongoing economic reforms.

While Syria s Lebanese allies have called for improved ties between the two countries, the Hariri murder makes this doubtful.

But there is little doubt that the option value has been greatly impaired and will likely remain so for several years.

Bush's war in Iraq has done untold damage to America as well, impairing its military power and undermining the morale of the armed forces.

The riots in the British Mandate during 1936 had weakened the immigration wave, but during the years 1938 1939 thousands of immigrants came, some of them illegally.

At the same time, it has strongly condemned all terrorist attacks against Israeli civilians in Israel, which cannot be justified and undermined any prospect of reconciliation between the two parties.

The trauma of conflict and the circumstances leading to it are likely to have eroded the capacities of national actors to guide and manage complex post conflict transitions.

The government may have to shore up the financial system if the changes in asset prices that undermined the dollar sink risk loving or imprudent lenders.

While structural problems have weakened competitiveness and GDP growth in particular countries, they did not bring about the crisis, and addressing them will not resolve it.

This combined with the military losses, epidemics, poor harvests so weakened Russia that the Crimean Tatars were able to sack central Russian regions and burn down Moscow (1571).

American policymakers expended considerable effort devising ways to support the pound, because they knew that the same factors that made the pound vulnerable also threatened the dollar.

We Russians are pleased to hear these enlightened words, yet Putin adds a but to his argument, which weakens it considerably.

During 21 January, TCWC Brisbane and the JTWC reported that Rewa had weakened below cyclone strength, as the system moved back into the South Pacific basin for the third and final time.

The capacity of many States to take remedial measures within their borders, as well as to act collectively for the safety and well being of the world community, has been impaired by the upheavals of change.

First, the financial crisis has weakened the United States and Europe. They will be unwilling or unable to provide the kind of leadership that sustained multilateralism in the decades that followed World War II.

The decisive action by white and black government forces on behalf of civil order appears to have weakened the resistance to multiracial elections as well as split the radical white separatist groups and isolated IFP and its chairman, Chief Buthelezi.

(e) The assessment of 66 subregions covering international river basins and adjacent seas conducted by GIWA has confirmed the widespread concern that pressures from human activities have weakened the ability of aquatic ecosystems to provide critical services.

He then referred to the visit the Working Group undertook to Belgium, where it was able to identify areas where people of African descent found themselves in a disempowered situation vis à vis the mainstream community and in a position to establish a sincere and frank dialogue with governmental authorities on those areas of concern.

The Sunni tumult has underscored the fragility of almost all Arab countries, while diluting the centrality of the Israel Palestine conflict. The post Ottoman order created by the British, with some help from the French, after World War I is disintegrating, with no viable alternative in sight.