Sentence examples for badly undercutting from inspiring English sources

(The exception is a long speech by Legree in the third act that drags badly, undercutting the play's momentum).

But as the 30-day clock ticked down, the company withdrew some of those items, and then said it had made an accounting error and sharply lowered its estimates of how much other measures would save, badly undercutting its credibility with employees.

The housing market remains weak, and another sustained drop in prices could badly undercut the economy.

That version included a four-year postponement of the electric car mandate and a system of trade-offs that critics said would badly undercut the requirement.

But the mayor badly undercuts his credibility through false equivalency — his flat assertion that the only other thing standing between this city and violent crime are critics who have every right to demand that policing abides by the Constitution.

This was a tactical decision born out of fears that a focus on security would alienate centrist voters, but Yachimovich badly undercut her own campaign by vacillating on whether she would join a Netanyahu-led coalition.

The advice went like this, two media-industry investment bankers said: For Time Warner, allowing another major cable company to gain control of Disney's studios and television networks would badly undercut Time Warner's bargaining power over programming costs.

The President had argued in a speech that closing Guantánamo would restore the rule of law, and Clinton said that relying on military tribunals would badly undercut that claim.

Labor leaders asserted that the court ruling could badly undercut unions because a paralyzed N.L.R.B. would not be able to intervene if employers engaged in unlawful tactics during unionization drives, including illegally firing union supporters or intimidating workers into voting against having a union.

Democrats say the governor, in his zeal to cut the deficit, has badly undercut the needs of the poor, the underemployed and children.

But he said the executive bonuses and special pensions that American Airlines promised its top executives had badly undercut labor's willingness to cooperate with management.