Time, which strengthens friendship, weakens love.

Delay only weakens the political process.

Each strengthens and weakens the other.

That for you and that God weakens the unbelievers' guile.

That for you and that God weakens the unbelievers' guile.

Corruption also weakens governments and lessens their ability to fight poverty.

This (is the fact) and surely, Allah weakens the deceitful plots of the disbelievers.

This (is the fact) and surely, Allah weakens the deceitful plots of the disbelievers.

It weakens the document, which does not live up to our expectations and goals.

It is an element that weakens and undermines a genuine process of national reconciliation.

It is felt that this arrangement weakens the initial argument for separating the two functions.

But, even more important, tax avoidance on Romney s scale undermines belief in the system s fundamental fairness, and thus weakens the bonds that hold a society together.

Economic growth is expected to moderate in 2005 in all three countries if the external environment weakens and uncertainty remains about the sustainability of domestic demand.

It therefore constitutes an element which weakens the non proliferation regime, as was recognized by the High level Panel in its report on threats, challenges and change.

We should uphold their right to publish. But to embrace the images they published as a statement of Enlightenment conviction weakens the values that are essential to a civilized society.

Imposing the same objectives on people who would otherwise opt for different ones creates a political cost and weakens both public understanding of the issues at stake and public acceptance of the outcome.

Then there is the US Federal Reserve Board. Despite legitimate questions about the effectiveness of its unconventional and ever experimental policy stance, the Fed appears willing to be even more activist if the economy weakens.

As a result, the United States, the European Commission, and the multilateral development banks have become increasingly isolated in their efforts to advance free market thought and policies worldwide. The deepening financial crisis weakens their position further.

MOSCOW Prime Minister Vladimir Putin insists that Without normal democratic development Russia will have no future. We Russians are pleased to hear these enlightened words, yet Putin adds a but to his argument, which weakens it considerably.

Europe s relationship with Russia is too important for it to be developed in an ad hoc fashion through bilateral arrangements. Today is Europe s moment of maximum flexibility as dependence on Russian energy supplies grows, the EU s leverage weakens.

As the Assembly has agreed, it must build on that simple statement to complete a comprehensive convention against terrorism in the year ahead and forge a global counter terrorism strategy that weakens terrorists and strengthens the international community.

The Nordic experience also belies conservatives claim that a large social welfare state weakens incentives to work and save. National saving in the Nordic countries averages more than 20 of national income, compared to around 10 in the US.

But power, defined as the ability to influence others, comes in many guises, and soft power is not weakness. On the contrary, it is the failure to use soft power effectively that weakens America in the struggle against terrorism.

Insufficient State support for the armed forces weakens the chain of command, encourages criminal activities that include the support of or arms transfers to embargoed parties, and prolongs the existence of a permissive environment for the traffic of arms.

One party government weakens accountability and breeds hubris. The California legislature has been controlled by the Democratic Party for decades, and it takes its cue from its party s most powerful special interests public employee unions, environmentalists, trial lawyers, and teachers unions.

Firms in advanced economies are now cutting jobs, owing to inadequate final demand, which has led to excess capacity, and to uncertainty about future demand. But cutting jobs weakens final demand further, because it reduces labor income and increases inequality.

Herndon, Ash, and Pollin argue that the results obtained by Reinhart and Rogoff are based on coding errors and questionable methodological choices. But, after all their quibbles, their paper weakens but does not refute the Reinhart Rogoff paper s main result.

In a growth mechanism where the external oil windfall component weakens, the internal component, which is dependent on higher productivity, technology and an adequate articulation between physical and human capital, would be best employed in offsetting the fall in oil rents.

As we struggle with today s crises, we should be asking whether we are responding in ways that exacerbate our long term problems. The path marked out by the deficit hawks and austerity advocates both weakens the economy today and undermines future prospects.

Alhough the Bank of China curtailed its lending growth to only 6 last year because of concerns about credit quality, many new local banks have expanded their lending aggressively, and could now suffer huge losses as the economy slows and firms solvency weakens.

Even before Arafat s death, Abbas argued that the use of force by militants weakens the Palestinian negotiating position. He stuck to this position throughout his electoral campaign, refusing the demands of hard line Palestinian factions that he apologize for his previous statements.

The eurozone should also pursue a policy partially via looser monetary policy that weakens the value of the euro significantly and restores the periphery s competitiveness. And Germany should delay its austerity plan, as the last thing that the eurozone needs is a massive fiscal drag.

But markets are more pragmatic if, as is almost surely the case, austerity weakens economic growth, and thus undermines the capacity to service debt, interest rates will not fall. In fact, investment will decline a vicious downward spiral on which Greece and Spain have already embarked.

The same could be said today, seven years after the 2008 global financial crisis, about the world economy s many remaining weak spots. Fear causes individuals to restrain their spending and firms to withhold investments as a result, the economy weakens, confirming their fear and leading them to restrain spending further.

A related argument is that domestic political processes can hamstring a government in the great game of poker or chess that international politics is supposed to be. As Obama has just discovered, having a legislature that clearly does not want to go to war weakens the executive s hand in international negotiations.

Prospects for 2005 indicate a slowdown in GDP growth in the ESCAP region to an estimated 6.2 per cent as the external environment weakens, with inflation slowing slightly to an estimated 4.6 per cent, based on the assumption that the average price of oil will be around 38 dollars ( ) per barrel.

When the United States Federal Reserve embarked on QE, it was accused of exporting its problems, because aggressive monetary easing inevitably weakens the currency. nbsp The same charge is now being leveled against the ECB. nbsp But this is misleading. Ultimately, the US recovery helped its trade partners more than it hurt them.

Europe has an international image problem that in part stems from a complex institutional structure that non EU countries find baffling. It is over represented at G 20 world summits, for instance, but the presence of four European national leaders, plus EU representatives like Barroso, weakens rather than strengthens its political weight.

Given the global menace posed by Europe s sovereign debt and banking crises, measures to strengthen the European banking system and encourage fiscal integration gained some momentum at the recent G 20 summit in Los Cabos, Mexico. The summit s concluding statement declared that countries with ample finances are prepared to provide economic stimulus if growth weakens.

Fourth, countries are poor often because of weak, inefficient, or corrupt government, characteristics that may disable them from taking cost justified precautions. And the difficulty people everywhere have in thinking in terms of probabilities especially low probabilities, which they tend to write off weakens political support for incurring the costs of taking precautionary measures.

On the Georgian side, It is well understood at least by the political elite that EU membership is a distant prospect at best. This weakens the political importance of the European Neighborhood Policy (ENP), an initiative developed in 2004 to avoid the emergence of new dividing lines between the enlarged EU and its neighbors.

NEW DELHI At the nadir of the financial crisis four years ago, many Asian governments came to believe that robust growth had led to a near decoupling of their economies from the West and its ongoing problems. But now, as the eurozone teeters and America s recovery weakens, Asia, too, is showing signs of faltering.

But their purpose will be lost if pursuing them weakens the very identity of Europe s universities, many of which are used to functioning in a world of state patronage and strict regulation. Policymakers must be aware of the educational and cultural damage that continuous reforms all justified in the future oriented jargon of the day can wreak.

The link between sovereign debt and bank debt has to be broken once and for all. We must end the vicious circle whereby the use of taxpayers funds more than 4.5 trillion ( 5.7 trillion) so far to rescue banks weakens governments budgets, while increasingly risk averse banks stop lending to businesses that need funds, undermining the economy further.

This simply reflects the reality of monetary policy interdependence if the US Federal Reserve s policy of so called quantitative easing weakens the dollar, others have to respond to prevent undue appreciation of their currencies. Someday, we might achieve closer global monetary policy coordination for now, however, it made sense for Japan to respond, albeit belatedly, to developments elsewhere.