6 sentences with 'strengthened'
Example sentences and phrases with the word strengthened and other words derived from it.
• « In 81 BC, Lucius Cornelius Sulla was made dictator; he greatly strengthened the power of the Senate at the expense of the Plebeian Assembly, had his enemies in Rome murdered and their property confiscated, and then retired to a life of debauchery on his private property (and soon died of an illness he contracted). »
• « Empress Maria Theresa (r. 1740 - 1780), the sole surviving heir to the Habsburg throne when her father died, proved an able administrator who streamlined the offices of the Austrian state, strengthened the loyalty of her non-Austrian subjects and even won the grudging admiration of the Prussians. »
• « 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. »
• « Laws regarding both sexual assault and domestic violence were often strengthened and more rigorously enforced. »
• « In the 1940s, the Orthodox faith spread in Lutheran Finland thanks to refugees from Karelia, which strengthened the existing small Orthodox congregations. »