Word: weaken
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...Both are valid scientific questions and currently the subjects of additional research, but they are not reasons for delaying action to slow global warming. Moreover, the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, which the United States and 185 other nations ratified, is designed to allow countries to weaken or strengthen the treaty in response to new scientific developments...
...first foreign policy crisis confronted by the next U.S. president. It's been clear for some time now that the sanctions policy is on its last legs, since almost a decade of restrictions that have crippled the Iraqi economy have done nothing to weaken the dictator's grip on power. The problem for Washington, though, is that it has failed to come up with an alternative strategy despite the fact that most of its Gulf War European and Arab allies have signaled their intention to end sanctions as soon as possible. That's left the initiative with the Russians, French...
...dovish elitist. Israel's response to the uprising may have been condemned abroad as excessive; at home the reverse is true. There is mounting concern in the Jewish state that its army appears unable to respond decisively to the challenge posed by the new intifada, and that may weaken Barak's hold on power...
...assume that berets will help at all in achieving them. In fact, Green Beret Special Forces, Army Rangers (black berets) and airborne units (maroon berets) are already voicing heated objections to the new uniform accessory, claiming that their distinction has been removed. This division among the soldiers can only weaken our defenses...
...several villages south of Cuzco, were amenable. They had had a prophetic vision about traveling to a far land to discuss the world's growing disharmony: pollution in the clouds that wreath their peaks, bizarrely early frost that threatens their potato crops and new parasites that weaken their alpacas. They relayed only a few requests. Would the summit help them get the birth certificates necessary for visas? Would it underwrite three days' horse rental to convey six of their seers to the nearest decent road? Would it be all right to bring a few ritual staves and stones...