Examples of weakened

• In his journal, Captain Scott recorded that he and his companions were weakened by lack of food.

• Is TV responsible for weakening people's moral fibre?

• The latest setbacks have not weakened the government's resolve.

• The fire weakened the central tower, which eventually collapsed.

• This evidence weakens the case for the prosecution.

• This is because vowels in both primarily and secondarily stressed syllables are rendered strong and not weakened.

• The body had its "defensive forces" (wei qi) to guard its frontiers; those forces were bound to fail, though, when weakened by corruption from within.

• The strong defiance incentives probably weakened somewhat from the mid 1980s, when the state grants became more generous.

• The conjugal bond has strengthened, and has weakened the traditionally strong bonds with siblings, parents and other relatives of the extended family.

• Either that control had weakened by the eighteenth century, or the model of ' social control ' at either period is suspect.

• The increased stiffness of connective tissue confers protective strength on weakened muscles but the loss of elastic recoil decreases the efficiency of gait.

• From an administrative perspective, the planning capacity and the strong links between a given regional population and the chosen level of public service are weakened.

• One phonological change which severely weakened the distinction between these classes was the neutralization of unstressed vowels.

• Once independence was achieved, the unions were left weak, and were further weakened when a number of key officials were lured into government.

• Both had recently seen their unions seriously weakened by severe repression.

• The incentive to put forward underfinanced proposals is weakened compared to a system where entitlement appropriations are open-ended.

• Such concentrated opponents should tend to be weakened by crisis.

• This led to the generation of ductile transpressional shear zones while the crust was thermally weakened because of the high temperatures.

• Huge capital costs, the limited availability of supplies, contested markets and price controls all weakened the market's ability to function effectively.

• The tribes, weakened by their deteriorating economic circumstances, needed the state's assistance and became more amenable to its patronage.