Sentence examples for claim undermine from inspiring English sources

Multinational corporations and investors could demand compensation on many different grounds - domestic financial, health, environmental, land use laws and other laws they claim undermine their TPP-defined right to profit.

The proposed Investment chapter of the TPP is highly problematic for public health as it would give investors the right to sue governments and demand compensation for post-TPP changes in domestic financial, health, environmental, and other laws that investors claim undermine their new TPP privileges or the value ('expropriation') of their investments generally.

To Israelis, the claim undermined Mr. Obama's credibility — and strengthened Mr. Netanyahu's position.

Over 50,000 Revenue and Customs workers will go on strike tomorrow in protest at "massive cuts" they claim undermined efforts to clamp down on tax avoidance schemes.

And the committee accepted that the UK knew nothing of the torture of the Ethiopian Binyam Mohamed, a claim undermined by a 2009 High Court case in which it was shown that UK intelligence had facilitated his interrogation by US agency operatives.

Organisers of the £30,000 award - who issued this year's six book shortlist yesterday - had their claim undermined last week when the Booker prize for fiction doubled its top winnings to £60,000.

He told me later that he had received an outraged response, saying that his claim undermined the very foundations of the system, and that he must re-submit a bill for at least three times as much.

Elisabeth rarely mentions her father publicly and has always claimed she has worked her way up–a claim undermined by this latest inter-Murdoch deal.

Legal philosophers have debated whether that claim undermines the ideal of the rule of law, or reflects a basic requirement of the rule of law: that a legal system needs techniques for the resolution of legal issues that are not determined by the law (see Endicott 2000, chapter 9).

He defended the loans as sound business decisions, a claim undermined by the foreclosures.

Simply claiming that U.S. beef is safe will not do -- especially, the report argues, if those claims undermine efforts to reduce the risk of mad cow disease.