Sentences with phrase «greatly weakened»

The glaciers, of which Tajikistan boasts 8,492, were already greatly weakened by a 3 degree Celsius temperature increase over the past five years.

In the meantime, opponents of emissions limits are not assuming that the Kyoto accord is dead, despite its having been greatly weakened by the rejection from the United States, the biggest emitter of greenhouse gases.

The high cosmic ray - cloud cover correlation in the period 1983 - 1991 over the Atlantic Ocean, the only large ocean area over which the correlation is statistically significant, is greatly weakened when the extended satellite data set (1983 - 1993) is used.

And the boom in domestic shale oil production has also greatly weakened the economic arguments of American lawmakers who were Keystone defenders.

Stanczak escaped but was greatly weakened after contracting encephalitis and ultimately lost the full use of his right arm.

This dynasty was greatly weakened by the rebellion which lasted for some 20 years, and in the ensuing chaos the Han was crushed and the country was divided among three major generals into three kingdoms.

The successful attacks on the Common Core and on common tests tied to the Common Core and the greatly weakened legitimacy for a strong — but sensible — federal role in education are not the only casualties of the last 15 years of policy.

SRIC, other organizations, and many citizens will play active roles in the outcomes, which could bring about greatly weakened health and safety requirements or provide new prohibitions that prevent some wastes from coming to WIPP.

Hunter's Sherrill said the progressive bloc's bid reflects members» «sense that traditional political machines are greatly weakened.

In exchange for a 6 - year extension, Silver agreed to a number of provisions that greatly weakened the rent laws and tenant rights.

Rossoneri fans will not be happy to have seen two crucial players leave, especially as they saw their side surrender their domestic title to arch rivals Juventus and clearly have now seen their side greatly weakened over the summer.

But whereas on the continent and in Britain Pietism and Evangelicalism spawned movements that were largely held within the saving forms of the dominant churches, in America where the church forms were already greatly weakened, Pietistic sentiments tended through revivalism to become so dominant that denominations were formed on this basis alone.

Would not Christianity be greatly weakened, if not wiped out?

And while I slept or drank Wittenberg beer with my friends Philip and Amsdorf the Word so greatly weakened the papacy that no prince or emperor ever inflicted such losses upon it.

Once that is wholly uprooted from our thought and time is recognized as primary, the threat to freedom is greatly weakened.

The threat of moving, often acted on, has greatly weakened the labor movement in the United States.

As to the Roman Catholic community, it has been buffeted by the same social and cultural forces, especially since Vatican II (probably inevitably) greatly weakened the institutional defenses against the overall culture.

-- though the primitive conception of Jesus as the Son of Man is greatly weakened in John, since another conception, and title, take its place.

Then in 1054 came the break between East and West, to be followed 500 years later by the Reformation that sundered Catholics and Protestants and greatly weakened concern for unity.

Our public services will be pushed to the point of failure and our national security will be greatly weakened as EU open borders expand further still.»

In the last stages of her cancer, greatly weakened and discomforted, Vivian is visited by her old mentor, Professor Ashford.

And, particularly in Abkhazia, where returnees would constitute a near majority, it would greatly weaken the incumbent de facto authorities.

Spinola and his fellow union - busters knows this, but instead of questioning the business practices of the owner of those cranes, they decided to use these accidents as subterfuge to push for the weakening of the requirements to obtain a NYC Department of Buildings Hoist Machine Operator license, which will greatly weaken the crane operator's union by causing an influx of inexperienced non-union crane operators from out of state.

We expect a gesture that will greatly weaken the United States government's position,» an adviser told the Sunday broadsheet.

«The negative outlook reflects significant out - year budget gaps that could greatly weaken the city's financial position,» analyst Robert Weber wrote.

Happily, the grip that your ilk has enabled major fossil fuel industry players and free market fundamentalists to have on Congress is greatly weakening.

In turn, that will greatly weaken the general practitioner's chances of survival.

Therefore, such an exception from prosecution created for ABSs, will greatly weaken the law societies» ability to prosecute the commercial producers.

In Congress, tobacco companies are pushing two bills that would greatly weaken FDA oversight of e-cigarettes and cigars and protect tobacco companies» ability to market candy - flavored products that are so enticing to kids.

Within the past few years a bill to make grandparent visitation more uniform ended up greatly weakening grandparent visitation rights while a bill to encourage joint custody ended up merely codifying case law without favoring joint custody.

While both bills have the laudable goal of curbing sex trafficking, including of minor children, they would greatly weaken Section 230's protections for online free speech and innovation.

It is worth being prepared to answer this question wisely because you can, accidentally, make some critical mistakes that will greatly weaken your negotiating power down the road.

Not exact matches

The 2010 CNR ushered in the greatly improved school nutrition standards championed by Michelle Obama, but just two years later, the School Nutrition Association (SNA) began to agitate for a weakening of those reforms.

The emotional connection between the physicist's conception of reality and the popular imagination has weakened greatly since Einstein.

Would not a weakened polar field over a period of, say, a few hundred years result in a greatly accelerated mutation rate due to direct cosmic - ray bombardment?

AIDS (short for Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) A disease that weakens a body's immune system, greatly lowering resistance to infections and some cancers.

The involvement of Ricci and 50 Cent are distractions, weakening the film with their presence, as Ricci's scenes don't require an actress of her abilities, while 50 Cent's requires someone who greatly exceeds his.

The muscle may either weaken and stretch (dilated cardiomyopathy), or it may thicken greatly (hypertrophic cardiomyopathy).

A dynamic (relative to the geoid) SLR induced by the weakening of the MOC is imposed on the global steric (density - dependent) and eustatic (mass - dependent) SLRs, thereby greatly enhancing the SLR rate on the northeast coast of the U.S..

In fact, Cane et al (1997) argue that the tendency toward increased SST gradient is precisely what is seen if one uses a robust trend analysis to decrease sensitivity of the trend analysis to outliers such as the very large 1982/1983 El Nino event (this event, and the equally large 1997/1998 El Nino event, greatly influence the estimate of a weakening trend of the Walker circulation in Vecchi et al).

But when adverbs appear repeatedly in legal writing, they greatly inhibit good diction, terribly annoy the reader, and depressingly weaken the words the writer is contrivedly modifying.

But selling ownership of the legal profession to nonlawyers who want hefty returns on their investments is most certainly not the answer considering that it will worsen, not improve, worsen the profit motivations / greed in the process (more layers of entities to pay), and considering that it will most certainly weaken the independence of the legal profession to the profound detriment of society, and considering that the access to outside capital will serve only to greatly accelerate anti-competitive concentrations (a trend various ABS insiders and observers in the UK candidly admit is happening and one they candidly admit that they are working hard to accelerate).