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There are enormously long lags from a change in exchange rates to impact on production and employment. ...The dollar has already weakened and frankly this kind of move isn't going to matter very much.

James Annable

The Prime Minister has been weakened, and if we push a bit more he will give way.

Bruno Julliard

Were the radical democratic impulses of the American Revolution still driving US politics, it would be difficult to imagine corporatization of the kind witnessed today. But that impulse has weakened, and therelationship between the people and the corporation has reversed.

Ben Manski

More seriously, China's economy would take a big hit if the US dollar weakened sharply due to such factors as a bursting of the US property bubble. The loss for China's foreign exchange reserves would be extremely serious.

Yu Yongding

The system weakened as it hit Slidell (La.). It really didn't do much to Mississippi.

Tim Destri

In addition, vehicle demand in Indonesia has weakened recently due to the adverse impact of surging gasoline prices, which is a further reason for the downgrade in our sales plan.

Takeshi Suzuki

We intend to keep production in line with demand, and are taking aggressive steps to respond to weakened market conditions, ... We expected a seasonal slowdown in the quarter, but rising fuel costs and concerns about the economic outlook are impacting our business across the board.

John Faraci

Generally, the situation is getting worse and pressure is piling on the weakened people and livestock.

Farid Abdulkadir

We're expecting that the new plan will look similar to Alternative 6 in terms of amount of new development. Our concern is that the environmental programs will be watered down or weakened ... And that will be clearly unacceptable.

John Friedrich

As for the circumstances surrounding it, yeah, there was an obvious exertion for quite a long time. If there was some weakened medical condition, then the two combined could have caused his death.

Scott Dover

Law enforcement forces are winning the game against the Camorra, ... We can't say yet that we have completely dismantled it, but certainly we have weakened it significantly.

Giuseppe Pisanu

We have had to lower the price of some of our products, but the downward pressure on prices has weakened a little bit in the third quarter, compared to what we had expected beforehand.

Toshizo Tanaka

That series of reports suggests inventories are building up in the housing market amid weakened business confidence.

Tsuyoshi Nomaguchi

The plants are in a weakened state. Moisture is the key. We need rain.

Mark Ploger

Many people are weakened by hunger. They can no longer walk long distances to fetch water. They often become desperate and drink dirty water, which leads to sickness and death.

Iris Krebber

Here is a perfect example of why we need to make sure that federal laws intended to make the older, dirty ... power plants clean up are not weakened.

Mary Mitchell

President Bush broke the law and lied to the American people when he unilaterally authorized secret wiretaps of U.S. citizens. But rather than focus on this constitutional crisis, Attorney General Gonzales is cracking down on critics of his friend and boss. Our nation is strengthened, not weakened, by those whistle-blowers who are courageous enough to speak out on violations of the law.

Anthony D. Romero

The condition of the children is very serious, ... Most of them are malnourished, suffering from measles and other diseases, already weakened, and now they have nothing to eat and most of them are dying.

Ahmed Ibrahim

Sentiment has not weakened significantly, and there's plenty of demand out there for stocks like Teijin.

Hidenori Karaki

The anti-state nature of the adjustment policies, which were applied more than a quarter century ago, and a reduction in public incomes, especially in the Central Government, have weakened the state?s ability to do its job.

Ciska Raventós

A weakened President Bush has made both countries decide they have leverage.

Wendy Sherman

If the integrity of the PBS is significantly weakened, and this is a chance for that to happen, then we would have significant worry that prices would go up.

Mukesh Haikerwal

Most of the company's revenue streams appear to have incrementally weakened each month in the quarter.

Judah Kraushaar

Benign inflation has weakened the Canadian dollar a little bit.

Michael Woolfolk

They will reassert the state as economic, political and social actor after decades of governments that weakened or dismantled state institutions.

Jeff Vogt

Falling demand in Europe and Japan weakened the overall growth even as demand from China remained strong.

Renee Chen

It's not plausible that capital spending has been weakened by the fact that multinationals are holding their funds abroad. I just don't believe that story.

Jan Hatzius

Once you have a break in Dawson, it saturates all the ground around it. If that's a permafrost area, it stays saturated and you have seriously weakened the infrastructure around the whole area.

Norm Carlson

UK Plc feels it has gone as far as it can in accommodating tax rises that have weakened our international competitive position. The trend we now want to see is a downward one not an upward one.

John Cridland

Conditions on the High Street have weakened over the summer.

Philip Dunne

(Jess) is coming along - it's a slow process. Her huge issue right now is the confidence, and that's going to come. The sad thing is that we're not going against weakened competition to begin with. She's going to be thrown to the wolves right away, so it's going to be a competitive game for her... If she comes and plays like she can, she'll be fine, whether goals go in or not.

Bob Derr

It may well be that things will die down now. But the structural dynamic still points toward civil war, and the institutions that could restrain it have become severely weakened.

Joost Hilterman

President Bush did not do well, ... He received an underwhelming reception both on U.S. security and trade issues. His leadership has clearly been weakened.

Bruce Bagley

Knowledge, like energy, expands; it is not weakened when it is expended between people. The force of creation that results is ever increasing in its power, its magnificence, and in its impact.

Linda Chandler

It is certainly difficult for us to see Mother in a weakened state. Because our faith is so strong and we are seeing daily improvement, it helps. We are completely assured that she will come to a full and complete recovery.

Yolanda King

The government's ability to fight back may be weakened.

Christopher Garman

I'm always for a weakened Conservative party, slightly or massively.

John Godfrey

The ratings reflect Taiwan's strong external position and robust economy in a challenging policy environment in which fiscal flexibility has weakened.

Ping Chew

This was the first year-on-year increase since last August, when operators reduced subsidies and competition weakened.

Carlos Constantini

The fundamentals have weakened over the past year.

William Loomis

Is he looking a little more tarnished than a year ago? Yes. But is he seriously weakened? I don't think so.

Lawrence White

We're playing a lot tougher, and we're kind of getting into a little routine. We want to try to attack the post, we want to be timely with the shooting from the perimeter, and defensively we've picked up things a little bit. But by the same token, our schedule has not weakened a bit.

Kent Adams

Those that were damaged were already weakened by rotting components, had tilted or had concrete annexes added to them.

Nataalui Duha

By taking away the elite players from the Premiership clubs and leasing them back on an irregular basis, the solid foundation that we have created in the professional era would be weakened. The temptation would be for more clubs to go down the Northampton road and sign more players from overseas, something which would work to the detriment of the national side.

Brian Kennedy

Gold put in a pretty good performance. When the dollar has been strong, commodity prices have been weaker, and when the dollar has weakened there has been a rebound.

David Rinehimer

The mechanics' union is quite weakened by its isolation, ... If they had the support of the other unions, especially the machinists, which represents the largest number of employees at Northwest - all the baggage handlers and gate agents - they really could have shut the airline down.

John Fossum

A population weakened and exhausted by battling against so many obstacles -- whose needs are never satisfied and desires never fulfilled -- is vulnerable to manipulation and regimentation. The struggle for survival is, above all, an exercise that is hugely time-consuming, absorbing and debilitating. If you create these ''anti-conditions,'' your rule is guaranteed for a hundred years.

Ryszard Kapuscinski

If we see economic indicators continue to weaken at the pace they have weakened in the past month, then I'm wrong. We could not only see mortgage rates continue to soften, but hold at lower levels for quite a substantial period -- maybe the first half of next year. But I don't think that's likely to happen.

Richard Dekaser

Rulings against the president like these are catnip to congressional investigators. Their claws will be out to play with a weakened presidential mouse.

Charles Tiefer

The question today is more opportunistic. The question is exactly where can I be a buyer of America Online ( AOL ) or some of these other stocks that have been weakened?

Richard Cripps

In one month's time we will start to see malnutrition-related diseases and we will start to see people dying, they will say from hunger or starvation but it will be from weakened bodies.

Michael Jones

Since the referendum on the EU constitution, Chirac has been in a much weakened position, and it has become obvious he is not really in the running for another term as president.

Bruno Jeanbart

Tenets of critical thinking ... are weakened in our classrooms, we weaken our nation.

Rush Holt

With the economy weak and fuel prices still relatively high, we and the rest of the industry were experiencing a very difficult financial quarter even before the September 11 attacks. But the attacks and their aftermath further weakened traffic and had a staggering effect on our overall financial performance.

Don Carty

It's not the dollar that's weakened a great deal, but rather the perception in the financial markets that the yen is strengthening a great deal, ... So it's a yen problem.

Brian Fabbri

The uncertainty that would accompany a weakened or likely falling Parliament within a year, year and a half, is not there. All things equal, that should be a positive shock to the Canadian dollar forecast beyond a year.

Jeremy Friesen

I have been advised to rest for one week and have undergone tests on a chest infection. The high fever has weakened me. I hope that I will regain fitness before the series.

Abdul Razzaq

The weakened yen is a good thing in many ways.

Nobuyuki Idei

A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril.

Sir Winston Churchill

A love of tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril; but the new view must come, the world must roll forward.

Sir Winston Churchill

His polls have definitely weakened because, one, he had signed the legislative pay-raise bill last year, which was highly unpopular; and, two, he failed to deliver on his promise to lower property taxes.

Clay F. Richards

Castleford think we'll be weakened by the loss of Jones but hopefully we've done enough work to improve on our loss from last week and we might be able to prove them wrong.

Paul Donkin

Cheney has had a tight, effective team, and they have been an incredible support system for the presidency. To the degree that support system is weakened, it's a bad day at the office. But no person is indispensable.

Rich Bond

The Blunt administration took steps that actually weakened the state's position in BRAC.

Jack Cardetti

The data suggests that ongoing, intense earthquake activity has weakened the rock dome, increasing the likelihood of an eruption either in the form of more explosions or perhaps lava flow from the dome.

Gale Norton

Don't think they're not talking about a weakened state.

Raymond Kelly

Fatigue is stressful. Kids who aren't getting enough sleep have higher levels of the fight or flight hormone, which is associated with high blood pressure and a weakened immune response.

Andi Broem

What happened to me is not that important in the scheme of things,' he said. 'But what is happening to the judiciary is tremendously important to all Americans. So, I'm not bitter - my spirits are good. My faith has not been weakened. God's grace indeed is sufficient.

Charles Pickering

The market is coming round to the view that we're going to get a second rate increase after today's as growth will probably be quite robust over the next few months. Treasuries have weakened and it's likely they'll push a bit lower.

Michael Derks

This trend where the Chilean peso has weakened with Brazil and Mexico doesn't really have anything to do with Chile at all. We think it's a very good entry point.

Jens Nordvig

Clipper was a heavy-handed way of forcing a particular design into things, and the reason Clipper failed is the same reasons that this will fail. Users lose out if cryptography is weakened or ineffective or much harder to use.

John Pescatore

This is probably going to be one of the hardest holiday seasons to predict. Last year, you knew what happened, you had an event, Sept. 11. Now, you have a weakened economy, employment issues, and you have consumers not knowing what's going to happen as far as corporate scandals, a double-dip recession and obvious questions about our current war on terrorism.

Scott Krugman

Momentum weakened a little bit as we saw a slower flow of funds into the market. But we are cautiously optimistic with strong support seen at the 15,200 level.

Alfred Chan

We would love to see grizzlies taken off the Endangered Species list - when they're ready, ... But that can't happen if the laws protecting grizzlies are weakened, and if they lose the few remaining scraps of land that support them.

Louisa Willcox

The dollar started a bit stronger today, then weakened a bit after the broadcasting of the bin Laden audio tape.

Tony Norfield

What we have here, plain and simple, is a case of gross mismanagement of a multimillion-dollar contract. Worst of all, it's seriously weakened our border security.

Mike Rogers

The vote has substantially weakened his position.

Bill Jones

The moral immune system of this country has been weakened and attacked, and the AIDS virus is the perfect metaphor for it. The malignant neglect of the last twelve years has led to breakdown of our country's immune system, environmentally, culturally, politically, spiritually and physically.

Barbara Streisand

There is not a simple economic case here. It is complex. It is interwoven, and it is very hard to extract. It is like pulling some sort of piece of thread out of a fabric. If you pull that thread out, you don't know to what degree you have weakened the fabric.

Terry Connelly

It has weakened considerably and it looks like it will take a more westward course than we first anticipated.

Eric Blake

What you're seeing is revealing weaknesses in the state, local and federal levels. All three levels have been weakened. They've been weakened by diversion into terrorism.

Eric Tolbert