He would have to test it to make sure that the steel had not been fatally weakened.

That would strengthen your position, and might fatally weaken mine.

However, by the 1460s the Moorish kingdom was fatally weakened and would not last much longer.

With the refugees giving such good account of themselves, the case for the surviving restrictions was fatally weakened.

This neglect fatally weakened his position on the island.

This split fatally weakened the country in the face of renewed Viking attacks.

The underground couldn't afford too many casualties among their attack group without fatally weakening the boarding party.

Tutankhamun was the fatally weakened product of their union.

Once this loyalty wavers, the prime minister's authority is fatally weakened.

Black officials even formed a group to seek a candidate, but internecine battles fatally weakened the effort.