Word: weakening
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...giving up his secure position in Columbus loomed large in Frank Lausche's mind. In 1956, as governor, he would have a vote-getting record unmatched by other Democrats, and he could confidently expect to control Ohio's convention delegates. As a freshman Senator, he might weaken home-state ties, and he would have to jump into vote-losing controversies over national issues...
...addition, the Chamber of Commerce wants a flat contribution instead of the present payments scaled according to income, thus substituting an admittedly regressive tax--hard on lower income groups--for progressive taxes. Such a step would only weaken the relationship of benefits to past wages which is essential to the maintenance of a contributory social insurance system. Since no money would flow into the fund, it would be empty in a matter of a few years. In place of the fund, the Chamber of Commerce wants a "pay as you go" plan, in which the government annually would collect...
...prevent the picadors, who lance bulls from horseback, from tooling their lances so that they weaken the bulls too early in the fight, the new decree requires that the steel points be impounded for 48 hours before the corrida. It also requires the bullfighter to face the bull with only one cape-waving helper, instead of the many formerly used to confuse the animal. Bulls now must be bigger, and to save them needless, heavy-handed torture, bullfighters must limit their passes to twelve minutes and kill within six minutes. If they fail, the bulls will be released from...
...enough native troops to take over the war. The listless fighting of the Bao Dai forces has demonstrated that a guarantee of complete independence within a few years is the prerequisite to raising more troops. By undermining the appeal of the Communist anti-imperialist slogans, this promise would also weaken the Red clutch on crucial Northern Viet-Nam. Not only pride out conscience should compel the French to set up the goal of independence so the Indo-Chinese natives can the goal of independence so the Indo-Chinese natives can be taught to do for themselves what Europeans have been...
...Lords, we are shy of talking about these things . . . but when the moral law is weakened, all men are concerned. It is weakened [now] partly because the dogmas of the old theologians ... no longer grip and control conduct, partly because two great wars have shaken faith in the providential order on earth, and partly also because of the development of science, which teaches strange new doctrines in physiology and psychology, tending to weaken individual responsibility ... I believe that a great deal of nonsense is talked about this kind of quack psychology, and that we should return to common sense, which...