| 1 | That battle may itself weaken if not topple the regime. | |
| 2 | Peaceful or not, the future of the region will be one of weakened central authority. | |
| 3 | When writing itself appeared, philosophers feared that it would weaken memory and degrade intelligence . | |
| 4 | When writing itself appeared, philosophers feared that it would weaken memory and degrade intelligence . | |
| 5 | But the more they control and distort the agenda of those institutions, the more they weaken them. |