His equivocations have deeply undermined his reputation among Israelis.
The aura of invincibility that had sustained the regime has been deeply undermined.
After being told not to speak, he felt deeply undermined, worrying it would erode his credibility with journalists who had expected to hear from him, friends said.
Losing that case deeply undermined the credibility of Mr. Yuen, a patent lawyer and inventor who had cultivated an image as a patent-law guru.
With summer temperatures routinely exceeding 110 degrees, and demand soaring for air-conditioners and refrigerators, those blackouts deeply undermine an Iraqi government whose popular support is already weak.
But it is an unavoidable fact that the classic restrictions on the killing of women, children and Muslims in jihad have been deeply undermined in the last decade.
Failure to reduce checkpoint and convoy shootings, known in the military as "escalation of force" episodes, has emerged as a major frustration for military commanders who believe that civilian casualties deeply undermine the American and NATO campaign in Afghanistan.
"Iran's obtaining nuclear arms will deeply undermine the stability of the entire international community and could lead to a nuclear arms race in the Middle East that will be extremely dangerous for everyone involved, including to Iran.
Those are enticing objectives, but for many French people, the combination of economic hardship, political instability and physical insecurity (due to the now regular terrorist attacks) has deeply undermined France's republican ideal.
Whether or not the business scandals are representative of American capitalism, and whether or not this venal interpretation of Bush-Cheney's motivation in the Mideast is accurate, these examples are widely cited in Latin America as proof of pervasive corruption in the United States and have deeply undermined whatever moral standing the United States might have had on issues of corruption.
That particularism deeply undermines the fundamental value of building a new business in the first place.
