The part of a sentence "continued to be undermined" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
You can use this phrase to describe something or someone that is constantly being weakened or made less effective. Example: Despite all efforts to improve employee morale, productivity continued to be undermined by ongoing conflicts within the management team.
Miners continue to be undermined by falling metal prices, with Antofagasta down 24.25p to 329p and BHP Billiton off 44p at 904.5p.
Karl Köhler, the chief executive of Tata Steel's European operations, said: "Growing European steel demand continues to be undermined by a flood of imports into the region.
Invest in research: The effectiveness of goals and policies aimed at reducing gender-based inequalities continues to be undermined by knowledge gaps.
Amnesty International noted in its 2007 report: "Political freedom continues to be undermined [in the Maldives] by the slow pace of constitutional reforms".
Last year, Burhanuddin Abdullah, governor of Indonesia's central bank, warned that without changes, the "fund's credibility will continue to be undermined due to the monopolistic behaviour of large countries with veto power".
The Palestinian Authority continues to be undermined by the new joint commitment of nationalist and Islamist Palestinians to the armed struggle as the only way to resist the occupation.
However, it is critical that there be appropriate backfilling of jobs," since incentives for early retirement on top of an existing two-year hiring freeze "will mean that essential services to the public will continue to be undermined".
Detainees in the country's prisons are still being tortured and ill-treated, Amnesty said in its 2007 report, adding that "political freedom continues to be undermined by the slow pace of constitutional reforms".
Human rights conventions continue to be undermined by the failure of states to ratify them, by emasculating reservations and derogations, by self-serving reporting systems that outnumber objective complaint procedures, and by poor financing for the implementation of human rights prescriptions.
