weakening

Qashqavi accused everyone working at the BBC, the Voice of America, and CNN are pursuing what he called the weakening of Iran's unity and seeking the disintegration of the country all because he said of ties to Israel and Zionism.

CNN Transcript Jun 22, 2009 2009

Wayne Pacelle, president and chief executive of the Humane Society, criticized the department for what he described as weakening its policy by allowing some downer cows to be used as food.

Meat Recall Sparks Calls 2008

These militias have been bad news in the past, and their weakening is good news for the future.

Channeling de Soto in Iraq, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

It appears that the Obama administration has yielded to pressure from the NCAA and gender quota advocates in weakening the value of student interest surveys for Title IX compliance.

Rescinding of Title IX model survey draws praise from critics 2010

It works wonders in weakening a nation, here or in China.

If you are an industrialist who contributed to Democrats… [UPDATED] - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState 2009

Yes disease was a factor in weakening the French and, yes, religion was a great motivator, but, in fact, the Haitians out thought and fought the French army.

Matthew Yglesias » Did Haiti Form a Pact With the Devil? 2010

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's position is strengthened by military and political successes in weakening al-Qaeda and winning over many Sunni Muslims who formerly supported the insurgency.

Iraqi PM weighs U.S. exit timeline 2008

Al-Maliki's position is strengthened by military and political successes in weakening al-Qaeda and winning over many Sunni Muslims who formerly supported the insurgency.

Iraqi PM weighs U.S. exit timeline 2008

Publicizing the problem of domestic violence, an explicit strategy of women's rights advocates (and, less explicitly, of temperance workers), was a first step in weakening the privacy paradigm that had kept battered women from finding justice in the legal system.

'Trivial Complaints:' The Role of Privacy in Domestic Violence Law and Activism in the U.S. 2008

The most serious effects of hypoxia on fisheries are probably: longterm weakening of species also stressed by overfishing habitat loss longterm changes in ecology (e.g. a shift in the dominant species of algae, which can change the dominant fish species) economic losses

Hypoxia fact sheet 2009