Sentence examples for bound to undermine from inspiring English sources

The lack of answers, some said, was bound to undermine investors' confidence in the market.

Even so, any hint of a physical problem with Pettitte is bound to undermine some of the Yankees' confidence.

On top of which continual delays – which the FMT department blame on changing user requirements, but which the BBC blames on technology supply and assurance issues – were bound to undermine confidence in DMI.

Such a climate was bound to undermine Ivar Kreuger, who appeared on the cover of Time the week of the crash, perhaps confirming the old journalistic adage that any phenomenon appearing on the cover of Time has already peaked.

Two American journalists arrested in North Korea received an unusually harsh prison sentence, and North Korea has made new demands that are bound to undermine the last surviving North-South cooperation project.

Until it is, expanding settlements in occupied territory – recognised as illegal by almost every country except Israel – is bound to undermine any call for the Palestinians to come to the table.

But sideshows – England's alternative national sport – seem bound to again undermine a country who have cornered the market in underachieving.

The development seemed bound to further undermine Nigeria's position as a regional power broker and enforcer of democratic norms, a role it played in helping to end the Liberian conflict in 2003 by accepting Mr. Taylor and in defusing recent crises in Togo and Ivory Coast.

But in this era of mass individual simulcast, the drama of snooping in a private journal is bound to be undermined.

Increasingly it is the production of policies that facilitate an advantageous engagement with global forces that will determine a state's effectiveness in innovative fields such as biomedicine, not the pursuit of protective policies that are bound to be undermined by the growing presence of international economic governance.

For this reason, any effort on the government's part to rule over the beliefs and opinions of citizens is bound to fail, and will ultimately serve to undermine its own authority.