weakenings

There are technical ways around this obstacle, for example using weakenings of the notion of saturation.

First-order Model Theory Hodges, Wilfrid 2009

This property has profound effects on cut elimination: in permuting cut up, Gentzen had to restore the original contexts (the Γ's and Δ's) through weakenings and contractions.

Chores 2009

Twice in 1977 Gore voted for those two exceptions, but thereafter he consistently voted against even such small weakenings of the ban on Medicaid funding.

Al And Bill Ko Themselves 2008

All of these are weakenings of the transitivity of

Preferences Hansson, Sven Ove 2006

Here are the main weakenings of classical ethno-nationalism that the liberal, limited-liberal and cosmopolitan nationalists propose.

Nationalism Miscevic, Nenad 2005

The moral debate about nationalism has resulted in various weakenings of the cultural arguments, proposed by liberal nationalists, which render the arguments less ambitious but much more plausible.

Nationalism Miscevic, Nenad 2005

One can only assume that the Administration's many successive weakenings of its original plea for harsh penalties were understood to be a trade-off for silencing senatorial objections to entrusting drug powers to the Attorney General.

A Special Supplement: Nixon's Crime Program and What It Means Packer, Herbert L. 1970

But, since weakenings and degeneration in these respects have come into the enactments of public power, it is all the more needful for every true and patriotic citizen to be earnest and firm in witnessing for God and his everlasting laws, that the people may be better than the later expressions of their state documents.

Luther and the Reformation: The Life-Springs of Our Liberties Joseph A. Seiss

Rough weather occurred during the first week of August, and with occasional temporary weakenings a gale blew throughout, reaching fifty miles an hour at different times.

The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 Douglas Mawson 1920

From his viewpoint, the providential Kaiser had shown inexplicable weakenings.

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. (Los Cuatro Jinetes del Apocalipsis) from the Spanish of Vincente Blasco Ibanez; authorized translation by Charlotte Brewster Jordan. 1918