7 sentences with “weakened”

And the nobility? The legal structures that sustained their identity were slowly but surely weakened throughout the 19th century.

After the inconclusive end of the Thirty Years' War, which Spain had largely financed, the power of the Spanish state was increasingly weakened.

The war had also weakened Sparta's cultural xenophobia and its obsession with austerity, for control of diplomatic alliances was as important as military strength.

The controversy weakened the empire by dividing it between iconoclasts loyal to the emperors' official policy and traditionalists who venerated the icons, while the empire itself continued to be beset by invasions.

Meanwhile, Persia recaptured and exercised control over the Greek cities of Anatolia in 387 BCE, as Greece itself was divided and weakened. Thus, although the Persians had "lost" the Persian War, they were as strong as an empire.

The war had neither purified nor strengthened the great powers; they were all staggering, weakened and uncertain how to avoid future war. Science had advanced, but its most notable achievement was the production of more effective weapons.

The Arabs conquered Persia not only because it was weakened by its wars with Byzantium (especially its defeat by Heraclius in 627), but because many Arab clans had fought as mercenaries for both sides in the conflict; great wealth had flowed into Arabia for decades, and the Arabs were already veteran soldiers.