If Ceel caves in to it, he risks weakening himself in the eyes of his more traditionalist rivals, as we've said a hundred times.

Mr. Bush said today that limiting China's trade privileges risked weakening its ties to the West and encouraging repression.

I am too old to risk weakening my power, child.

As Argentina's postwar history makes clear, when politicians temporarily suspend democratic rules of the game during crises, they risk weakening democracy to the point of collapse.

Shanker also argued that exposing the labor movement's internal disputes to labor's enemies seriously risked weakening the labor movement.

The Executioner decided that he could risk weakening that sector.

Japanese companies are in a slump, Tokyo's negotiators said, and are reluctant to change suppliers because they don't want to risk weakening their business associates further.

It would have been foolhardy to risk weakening it at a time when the Cold War was about to turn hot in Korea.

We therefore risk weakening the markets.

Could they be so desperate to hold the Hot Springs line that they would actually risk weakening the neighboring pass?