Word: weakening
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...other hand, any attempt at a "stop Jackson" movement, especially if it comes as a last-ditch effort at the convention, would backfire and profoundly alienate the Democratic party's most loyal constituency--the Blacks. Such an effort would weaken the eventual Democratic nominee by driving Black voters away from the polls...
...West Bank town of Ofra, and concludes, "He does not want to think even for a minute about the situation of the Arabs around him, because he is caught up in a struggle with them, at war . . . and were he to allow himself to pity, to identify, he would weaken and endanger himself...
Britain's political lineup will now pit the newly created Social and Liberal Democrats and Owen's breakaway party against the leftist Laborites and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's Conservatives. Though the new parties hope to weaken the Conservatives' mandate, they could have precisely the opposite effect. By dividing an already weak opposition even further, they just might give Maggie Thatcher's Tories a real shot at governing England for the rest of the century...
...Foreign Minister in the national unity government, suggested that the elections scheduled for November be moved up in hopes of producing a government better able to deal with the crisis. Predictably, Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, head of the right-wing Likud bloc, rejected the idea, saying it "would weaken our standing in the eyes of the Arabs...
...also not looking to quickly wash away the guilt that has wrenched my soul and I suspect the souls of many fellow Jews. I criticize because I fear that Israel is destroying itself and just as the Jewish state provides strength to all Jews its destruction will weaken all Jews...