He did not try again to weaken their hold upon his body, but once more he set to studying the ground ahead.

A scandal involving these elevators weakened his government's hold on power in the early 1910s.

This would weaken the government's so far firm hold on the economy.

The big risk of reforming the system is that it weakens the state's economic hold over its citizens.

This wasn't a situation where the Americans could pound the enemy with rockets and artillery to weaken their hold on a position.

But in the effort to do so he must have weakened his hold on the other wrist.

Seeing the ghosts must have already weakened her fragile hold on sanity.

Such a high negative vote, labor experts said, would embarrass him and perhaps weaken his hold on power.

We can reveal him, and likely that will weaken his hold over some.

Again, Labor sees this as an attempt to weaken its hold on local governments.