Word: weakens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Will such a change weaken the European community? Duroselle thinks not. "De Gaulle favors the common market," he says, "and within seven years--the length of his term--the market will be revitalized. Then the necessity of a common currency will appear, and it is plain that you can't have a common currency without having a common policy in many areas. The trend towards integration now seems to be irresistible...
...eleven in the first game ever played in the Stadium. Seats on the curve to the south were still unfinished, and temporary stands were erected in the Stadium's north end. There was real fear among the public, despite the many years of testing, that the concrete stands would weaken and crumble as soon as they came into use. To allay these doubts, the construction superintendent prominently walked around under the stands while the spectators found their seats...
Gazing resentfully at raw stumps, gaping holes and blocked-off streets, Rome's citizens let out a noise that could be heard distinctly above the traffic's roar. Tunneling for one underpass, charged critics, would irretrievably weaken the 16th century gate at the Piazza del Popolo, as well as whole sections of the city wall built by the Emperor Aurelian (A.D. 270-275). "Our trees are being slaughtered," added Columnist Indro Montanelli. "because they have neither voices nor votes. We are being drowned in a wave of cement...
...arouse widespread student protest, Kennedy hopes to weaken a key argument of those who oppose his bill. As Senator Richard Russell said in debate last summer, "I have not received a single complaint from a young citizen of my state who feels he is insulted by being asked to say he believes in the Constitution of the United States...
Questions of complexity alone seem to weaken the test-case method as practical procedure. Pressure for favorable legislation and the moral example of refusing funds thus seem the best form of opposition to the loyalty oath. It is perhaps not generally realized that, when the University demands the removal of the affidavit from the NDEA, it is fighting to lift the loyalty provision from both the loans, which it itself administers, and from the grants, which the government awards directly. Although the University would not be compromised if government scholarships alone were encumbered by loyalty affidavits, it should still persist...