Sentence examples for cost undermining from inspiring English sources

Many exports are sold below cost, undermining the ability of the world's poor farmers to sell their products at home or as exports.

That is why, according to the former head of both the CIA and NSA, the order sought and then resigned by the FBI represents a government agency's confused attempt to gain a tactical advantage (the ability to access more data) at the expense of a far greater strategic cost (undermining the security of a device platform used by millions of people).

But this maverick move still comes at a cost: undermining the ability of government to act in a way that government should: with transparency, and accountability.

In recent years, North Korea has made it increasingly clear that it is determined to keep its nuclear weapons at whatever costs, undermining a once-popular belief that the Pyongyang government's brinkmanship was a mere bargaining ploy designed to get as many concessions as possible in exchange for nuclear weapons.

Sixty-four percent of companies in one survey of New York employers said housing costs undermined efforts to recruit employees and 79percentt believed those costs inhibited the formation of new firms.

Doctors and administrators also said the company had recommended procedures that add bureaucratic cost while undermining employee morale.

I think a fifty-state strategy is a great aspiration — political parties always want to allow room for growth — but not at the cost of undermining the main principles the Party is supposed to stand for.

Or will we end up with a compromise like the one Congressional Democrats agreed to this year, legislation that assuages conservative objections at the cost of undermining the plan's effectiveness?

There are no carbon capture and storage sites yet in operation in the UK, and no evidence that carbon capture would be cost effective, undermining the business case for UGC.

Another provision, sponsored by George Voinovich of Ohio, would expedite the building of new energy delivery systems -- oil and gas pipelines and electricity transmission lines -- but, environmentalists claim, at the cost of undermining the traditional review procedures required by the National Environmental Policy Act.

Hume understands Newton's success as a double-edged sword: even if Newton removed a source of error and/or enlarged our knowledge, he did so at the cost of undermining any hope of establishing what we might call a "final theory" (see the entry on physicalism in this Encyclopedia).