Word: weakened
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Others deny the need for African Americans to repudiate openly other African Americans who express antiwhite or anti-Semitic sentiments. They maintain that public repudiations of this sort undermine African-American unity, sap the group's morale and consequently weaken it before a hostile society. They are mistaken. At the moment, an excess of conformity is far more dangerous than an excess of dissension to the well-being of the African-American community. A paucity of searching, highly public scrutiny of African-American leadership has had a disastrous effect on the tone of African-American political culture, rendering it vulnerable...
...tactic: stress the isolated acts of violence committed by a few members of the pro-life movement in order to weaken the whole movement and its struggle against violence...
...partisan support he received during the election has absolutely no bearing on his own political leanings and will not weaken CCA-Independent relations in the Council, Reeves says...
...athletes in this charmed circle, it's a great life if you don't weaken. Dick Button marvels at the number of competitions (Skate America, Skate Canada, Piruetten), plus the tours that clog a skater's year. "The pressure is never off," he says, "especially in an Olympic year." Button is skeptical of the demands made by the three-month-long, 59-city Tom Collins tour (April 11 to July 12), but in fact this is the ambition of every first-class competitive skater. Collins, the impresario, picks mostly Olympic and national medalists, along with some other favorites...
Once a powerful force under Likud governments, the settlers have seen their leverage weaken since Labor's rise to power last year. Rabin made it clear that the settlers represented only 4% of the population, and he cared more about the other 96%. Although many Jews in the occupied territories are young married couples originally drawn by tax breaks and cheaper housing to the bedroom communities outside Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, a core of hard-liners are fired by a messianic fervor that charges them with settling the biblical lands where the Jews once lived...