Word: weaken
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Other council members disagreed, saying that such an amendment would weaken student position on the Ad Board and go against the intent of the bill...
According to newly disclosed Federal Election Commission reports, the Bush campaign has spent almost $40 million in a single month, across 18 battleground states, spreading three negative messages about Kerry: First, that he will raise taxes. Second, that he will weaken America’s war on terror. Third, that he flip-flops on the issues...
Even young women can experience SUI after childbirth, but the problem rarely becomes chronic until much later, often around menopause. The loss of estrogen weakens muscle walls, but that only partly explains the timing. "There are a lot of injuries that happen during childbirth that women learn to compensate for," says Dr. Peggy Norton, chief of urogynecology and pelvic reconstructive surgery at the University of Utah. As a woman grows older, Norton explains, her body's means of compensating for the damage may give way. Her muscles may weaken, her reflexes may not be so sharp, or maybe...
...coming days given the efforts of IGC members to mediate solutions both in Fallujah and in the south. If the U.S. declines to accept those outcomes - which are not exactly palatable to the U.S. given its stated objectives in each case - the result will be to further weaken the IGC, and make its members more reluctant to accept a governing role after June 30 that would leave the U.S. military in charge of security, and potentially pursuing the current counterinsurgency effort that has alienated so many Iraqis...
...been especially concerned, in recent weeks, to ensure that if Israel does withdraw from Gaza, the resulting power vacuum is not filled by Hamas. But rather than weaken the movement's political authority on the streets of Gaza, the slaying of Yassin may actually have strengthened it. And that's grim news for any hope that the near-moribund Palestinian Authority could be revived in order to take charge of Gaza's security in the wake of Israel's planned departure. An estimated 200,000 people - almost one fifth of Gaza's population - reportedly turned out on the streets...