But if one of the opposing surfaces is screened, or if, generally speaking, the bombardment on this side is weakened in some way or other, there remains the repulsion exerted upon the other, and the fan is set in rotation.
In this case the bombardment is weakened by reason of the smaller electric density.
It is only fair to say that the dam of the latter, who was only three years old when the hybrid was born, had been muchweakened by attacks of the strongylus worm, and that she was the victim of close inbreeding.
But by neither of these methods could the microbe be cultivated in an unbroken series of animals, as it became gradually weakened and soon lost its power of affecting such animals.
Weakened and torn and shaken by her endless hours alone in the whistling, roaring storm, listening moment by moment to the hideous noises of delirium coming from the next room, the level nerves of Beatrix had at last given way completely.
Weakened by disease, the heart had been powerless to bear the strain of the sudden motion, and the boy fell into his final sleep, cradled in his mother's arms.
At this point I weakened and told him that I had no desire to display any man's weakness in the market place.
The trail was not difficult but in their weakened condition the boat and poor Milton were heavy burdens and it took them three times as long to accomplish the portage as it would have taken had they been in normal condition.
None the less, it must have preyed upon the spirits of all his party and weakened their resistance in that cruel return journey.
When the sons leave the father's house and rule their own homes, becoming fathers in turn, the old man is not weakened thereby.
Personally, I have no fear of Britain's power being weakenedby a separation of her dominions.
He should not have weakened the command of General Taylor in the face of Santa Anna's army.
The transfer of so large a portion of Taylor's most efficient troops to the rear of his original line, had greatly weakened his front, in the best positions, where the inequalities of ground sustained his feeble numbers.
Whenever I heard it on one side of the tree I speedily changed to the opposite--an exercise which, in my weakened state, I could only have performed under the impulse of terror.
The sufferings of the preceding night were repeated, and increased by the weakened condition of the men.
His attack on Thuringia ended in his defeat at Lucka in 1307, and, in the same year, the death of his son Rudolph weakened his position in eastern Europe.
Ali, which was still further weakened by the loss of Egypt.
His closing years were weakened by a severe fall he met with in 1657.
These incessant wars weakened the Mahommedans, to the great advantage of the rising power of the Christian kings of Leon and Castile, but they gave the kingdom of Seville a certain superiority over the other little states.
Still this union was unpopular and weakened the position of King Alexander in the army and the country.
Portugal's hold on the interior, never very effective, weakened during the 17th century, and in the middle of the 18th century ceased with the abandonment of the forts in the Manica district.
The wars of the French Revolution and of the emperor Napoleon, in which Spain was entangled, interrupted its communications with its colonies, and weakened its hold on them.
The bullets were hardened by the addition of antimony, and, as the bursting charge was small, the shell was weakened by four grooves made inside the shell extending from the fuze hole to the opposite side.
The British, by holding their ground with their accustomed tenacity when engaged with superior numbers, were tactically victors, but were further weakened by a loss of nearly 600 men.
Lee still held the battlefield of Fredericksburg and had not attempted the offensive, and in April he was much weakened by the detachment of Longstreet's corps to a minor theatre of operations.
In May their provisions were getting very low, and they themselves were both weakened by inaction and insufficiency of food, while the scurvy had made its appearance among some of the number.
The weakened in body are naturally weakened in mental power.
In performing these rounds I often met the gentleman, and tried to attract his attention, until I became convinced that either his eyesight was so weakened that he did not know me, or that he chose to disown my acquaintance.
Garnett, now greatly weakened in body, and not exempt from anxiety of mind, became more and more susceptible to the action of morbific matter.
In his weakened state the idea of it all set his brain in a whirl, and his thoughts became confused.
In that first dawn of consciousness he had failed to see the silent figure at his bedside--a figure which, had his gaze rested upon it, would probably have troubled his weakened mind and stayed his peaceful slumber.
It has weakened their faith in the Governor,--it has as good as undone all the work of twenty years past.
He's not in the mood for paying debts to a weakened enemy.
These she made him eat before she touched any herself, for she saw that the loss of blood had weakened him.
In the end the two great powers considered it better for Turkestan to return officially into the hands of the weakened China, hoping that in practice they would be able to bring Turkestan more and more under their control.
Weakened by famine and by the wars against Wu-huan and Hsien-pi, the Hsiung-nu split into two, one section withdrawing to the north.
In addition to this, the empire had been weakened first by its foreign trade and then by the dependence on foreigners, especially Turks, into which it had fallen owing to internal conditions.
The Hsiung-nu while weakenedevaded the Chinese pressure, but in 104 B.
It seemed likely at this time that a general reconciliation would put an end to the quarrels which had, during some years, weakened and disgraced the government of Bengal.
It mutilated the national representation; it weakened the sacred principle that the delegates of the people were inviolable.
Small communities, actuated by strong sentiments of patriotism or loyalty, have sometimes made head against great monarchies weakened by factions and discontents.
They protected our independence, but they also compromised it; the British by any concession to Japan might have weakened us; we took the risk, and our action was in effect an act of defensive war against Germany.
Colonies that have been left queenless for some time, and those weakened by disease or by overswarming, are especial marks for such attacks.
In other places, again, exposed to the free air of heaven, association isweakened by external influences.
He must avoid the mistake that weakened Spartacus, of accepting for the sake of numbers any ally who might offer himself.
Debauchery, of wine and women, entered not at all into his private life although, in public, he encouraged it in others for the simple reason that it weakened men who otherwise might turn on him.
Vigorous efforts extending through a long term of years have weakened the grip of the caciques, but have by no means broken it.
