Sentence examples for a strategy of undermining from inspiring English sources

In response, the leave side pursued a strategy of undermining the very idea of independent authority.

"If he does not, if he continues a strategy of undermining the sovereignty of Ukraine, then we have no choice but to respond" with more sanctions, Obama said.

This affront to convention was not born of a desire to shock; it was part of a strategy of undermining the categories - including the distinction between the serious and the non-serious - that had long dominated philosophical language.

"The Bush administration's proposal demonstrates its commitment to the strategy of undermining a woman's right to choose by ascribing legal rights to embryos," said Kate Michelman, president of the National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League.

Much of the anger has focused on the defence team's strategy of undermining the testimony of the complainants by questioning their recall of traumatic events, and some campaigners have called for the creation of special sexual violence courts, with judges and prosecutors who have been trained in areas such as intimate abuse and trauma.

Texas, as it happens, is the poster child for the newest creationist strategy of undermining the treatment of evolution in state science standards.

The term 'incomprehensible' used by the then Immigration Minister of Italy to describe the judgement (Polchi, 2012, para. 5) repeats the strategy of undermining the credibility of the judiciary by representing the judicial body as incapable of fully grasping the complexities at stake.

The wooing of the new Greek government is part of a strategy to undermine the consensus in Europe that Russia's actions in Crimea and Ukraine require a tough, sustained response.

They began planting bombs and derailing trains as part of a "strategy of tension" to undermine the labour advances of 1969 72 and encourage a right-wing coup.

Rather than confronting this argument head-on, which would involve publicly defending the actions of the banks, the insurers, and the industrial polluters, the right has settled on a strategy of trying to undermine the government through the courts, where its pro-corporate agenda can be repackaged as a defense of ancient freedoms.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has been campaigning for sanctions relief from traditionally friendly Southern European countries in what appears to be a strategy of dividing the European Union and undermining its alliance with the United States.