The cause of the disaster must be sought in the weakened structure of the oil tanker.

Just how weakened America is in the region matters.

His health was greatly weakened by this imprisonment and he developed tuberculosis.

Eulalia says his son will be called Gumercindo, and soon dies.

How much of the light is being dimmed depends on how big the planet is.

But even a weakened Russia will still be a strong power in its immediate neighborhood.

After incessant invasions, each bringing destruction to the country, with time Armenia became weakened.

Imperial authority was severely weakened, and the growing power vacuum at the center of the Empire encouraged fragmentation.

In the second half of the 14th century, Tver was further weakened by dynastic struggles between its princes.

It is a weakened democracy mired in an economic and social crisis so deep that it verges on becoming an identity crisis.

The more the West waits, the more radicalized the rebels will become, weakening the standing and influence of moderate forces.

It appears that it was mounted by five battalions of the Middle Guard, and not by the Grenadiers or Chasseurs of the Old Guard.

The difference between a languishing nation and one that will flourish is the recognition that we need equal access to education for both boys and girls.

By the end of the year, Charles' position was getting weaker and he desperately needed Henrietta to raise additional funds and troops from the continent.

The Iraqi Air Force was also left in poor shape after losing up to 55 aircraft since early December 1981, they had only 100 intact fighter bombers and interceptors.

Synthetic a priori judgments Kant argues that there are synthetic judgments such as the connection of cause and effect (e.g., ... Every effect has a cause.

Indeed, the key advantage of the IMF s SDR department that it is a quasi universal and government driven system whereby currencies are exchanged with reliable collateral (the SDR) would be lost.

After all, Al Qaeda, albeit weakened, remains capable of regenerating inside Afghanistan, where the Taliban remain dominant in the country s east and south, as well as in neighboring North Waziristan in Pakistan.

And could a weakened Europe cope with an oil shock at all? nbsp A regional and global security shock caused by asymmetric warfare could add still further to the world economy s troubles, causing exports to slump even more.

Eventually restored as a kingdom (albeit in legislative union with Denmark) in 1661, Norway saw its land area decrease in the 17th century with the loss of the provinces Båhuslen, Jemtland, and Herjedalen to Sweden, as the result of a number of disastrous wars with Sweden.

Soon after the Spanish arrived in the islands in 1512, they began capturing the Taíno of the Turks and Caicos Islands and the Lucayan as slaves (technically, as workers in the encomienda system) to replace the largely depleted native population of Hispaniola.

Russia worries that its nuclear tipped missiles, based largely in static locations, might be destroyed on the ground by a preemptive strike by long range US missiles, and its retaliatory punch weakened by US ballistic missile defense.

European politics during the Crisis were dominated by the France of Louis XIV, where royal power was solidified domestically in the civil war of the Fronde, in which the semi feudal territorial French nobility was weakened and subjugated to the power of an absolute monarchy through the reinvention of the Palace of Versailles from a hunting lodge to a gilded prison in which a greatly expanded royal court could be more easily kept under surveillance.