#weakening

The U.S. embargo imposed on Nicaragua, rather than weakening the Sandinistas, actually maintained them in power. ↗

— Bianca Jagger

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Recognizing Quebec as being different, recognizing our history, recognizing our identity, has never meant a weakening of Quebec and has never been a threat to national unity. ↗

— Jean Charest

#being #being different #different #history #identity

What's troubling is that the Republicans to defend Mr. DeLay are weakening the ethics process. ↗

— Barney Frank

#delay #ethics #mr #process #republicans

This weakening is worsened by the widening distance between the governed and their governments. ↗

— Jacques Delors

#distance #governed #governments #their #weakening

You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. ↗

— William J. H. Boetcker

#strengthen #strong #weak #weakening #you

This means that the search for a formula of European cooperation in connection with the League of Nations, far from weakening the authority of this latter must and can only tend to strengthen it, for it is closely connected with its aims. ↗

— Aristide Briand

#authority #closely #connected #connection #cooperation

Since the day he came into office, President Bush has worked to gut more than 34 years of hard work by weakening many of our Nation's standing environmental laws, some of which were signed into law by his father. ↗

— Jim Jeffords

#came #day #environmental #father #gut

Wherever you have weakening states and turmoil, you will have a fertile petri dish for terrorism. ↗

— Robert D. Kaplan

#fertile #states #terrorism #turmoil #weakening

Marriage cannot be severed from its cultural, religious and natural roots without weakening the good influence of society. ↗

— Jack Kingston

#cannot #cultural #good #influence #marriage

Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul. ↗

— Andre Maurois

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