The effects of the latest round of international sanctions on Iran are somewhat ambiguous they have weakened the country, but they do not seem to have weakened Ahmadinejad.

But the evidence that Anderson, Gentile, and Buckley provide has weakened that defense.

President De la Rua's first four months weakened Argentina's economy.

Financial innovation has weakened the link between money growth and inflation, for example.

Moreover, it is high oil prices that weakened the dollar, not vice versa.

In any resource rich and undemocratic country, the political class and the business interests that surround it have little or no incentive to support stronger property rights, the rule of law, and competition.

Indeed, such structural changes would weaken the elite s grip on political and economic power.

Not surprisingly, Mexican lawmakers earlier this year watered down a package of reforms meant to promote transparency.

Ever since European clubs loosened restrictions on the number of foreign players, the game has become truly global.

How could such a framework be operated effectively in an economy in which financial sector problems have weakened the monetary transmission mechanism?

Israel s announcement after the UN vote of new settlements around Jerusalem weakened his standing further.

Спасательные пакеты МВФ, согласно этому мнению, ослабили рыночную дисциплину, стимулируя бум на неразумное, необоснованное предоставление займов.

But the Gulf War and sanctions weakened Iraq's economy much more than communism weakened the USSR's.

The fighting cost Hamas two of its top leaders, Saeed Siyam and Nizar Rayan, and significantly weakened its military capabilities.

It was only in 1995 96 that the US eased its position and allowed the yen to depreciate against the dollar.

PARIS Forget what you have heard about the hard working Japanese salaryman since the early 1990 s, the Japanese have drastically slackened their work habits.

Expectations of aggressive QE by the Fed have already weakened the dollar and raised serious concerns in Europe, emerging markets, and Japan.

Спасательные пакеты МВФ, согласно этому мнению, ослабили рыночную дисциплину, стимулируя бум на неразумное, необоснованное предоставление займов. В этом аргументе есть доля истины.

Since the beginning of the year, more than 20 central banks around the world have eased monetary policy, following the lead of the European Central Bank and the Bank of Japan.

This worked for some time, but an alleged attempt to involve the United States more openly in Pakistani politics weakened, rather than strengthened, his hold on power.

Huge agriculture subsidies in the US and the European Union have weakened agriculture in the developing world, where too little international assistance was directed at improving agriculture productivity.

While structural problems have weakened competitiveness and GDP growth in particular countries, they did not bring about the crisis, and addressing them will not resolve it.

Led by US Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke, an economic historian of the Great Depression, they remembered the ideas of John Maynard Keynes and loosened monetary and fiscal policy to avoid the worst.

But the fire metaphor rules out such elementary questions as how to ensure that anti crisis measures will not weaken the forces of market recovery, or how to measure such measures longer term consequences.

But workers were trapped in the rural sector they didn t have the resources to move, and their declining incomes so weakened aggregate demand that urban manufacturing unemployment soared.

Lower productivity and higher unit labor costs eroded firms' willingness to hire, leaving Europe with chronically higher unemployment than in the US.

The no change decision comes after recent disappointing growth figures have dampened mounting expectations of a hike, with GDP edging up to 0.3 in the second quarter from 0.2 in the previous three months.

Most importantly, sanctions have strengthened those within the elite who favor negotiations, and weakened those who are deeply critical of Ahmadinejad s unhidden interest in doing business with the West, particularly the United States.

The revolution that must be overcome is that of May 1968, whose leaders and supporters, according to Sarkozy, may have lost politically to de Gaulle, but deeply weakened France over the succeeding decades with their emphasis on false values.

With violent theatrics, Osama bin Laden outraged and provoked the US, driving it to overreact in ways that destroyed its credibility, weakened its alliances in the Muslim world, and ultimately exhausted its military and, in a sense, its society.

As military rule became the norm in Africa in the 1970 s, northern army officers imposed an authoritarian and predatory mode of governance on the country, a vicious grip that was loosened only when a resurgent civil society forced them to return to the barracks in 1999.

Russian President Vladimir Putin s invasion of Ukraine and annexation of Crimea was met with heavy economic sanctions from Europe and the United States, weakening Russia s ties with the West and leaving the Kremlin eager to strengthen ties with China.