Word: weakened
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Mandela and the ANC recognize their predicament and have repeatedly condemned the methods by which the government is manipulating the democratization process by fomenting violence in the Black townships. But these obstacles have not been able to weaken Mandela's optimism, an attitude that shines through in most of the speeches collected here. He pays tribute to the struggles of all the progressive forces in bringing about the current phase of negotiations, including the youth, students, women's groups, civic organizations, churches, and the trade unions. In a speech to the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM), he remarked...
This issue of Time is devoted to American diversity, and thus by definition to the differences among Americans. Those differences gain their impact, however, from the bonds that unite them in one vast and variegated country. They are differences that should not divide or weaken America, but distinguish and strengthen it. They are the reason to keep the welcome mat, however worn and tattered at times, always ready at the door...
...people -- convicts and the mentally ill, for example. For the first time there were real limits on European immigration. Twelve years later, a group calling itself the Immigration Restriction League adopted the pseudo science of eugenics as the basis for its contention that breeding from "inferior stock" would fatally weaken America...
While professors said NAFTA opened up investment opportunities and increased bargaining power, they said White House concessions to gain support in the House significantly weaken the treaty's impact...
...think these agreements weaken the treaty, but it's not a hollow treaty," said Martin...