Sentence examples for drastically undermine from inspiring English sources

It would stop criminalising non-violent people, drastically undermine racist policing, be good for people's health and it would save lives.

[Our italics.] Brennan's words – whoever his audience and whatever the purpose – drastically undermine American morality and commitment to the rule of law.

The chancellor is considering the move – which Iain Duncan Smith fears could drastically undermine the effectiveness of universal credit – as a means of partially funding his anticipated U-turn on tax credits.

So if there were anything to the economic assumptions that dominate U.S. public discussion — above all, the belief that even modestly higher taxes on the rich and benefits for the less well off would drastically undermine incentives to work, invest and innovate — Europe would be the stagnant, decaying economy of legend.

The alarm for the directors is a significant drop off in numbers, since this would drastically undermine their means to continue, and make it more difficult, perhaps even impossible, to hold off King.

But long-standing veteran service organizations, like the American Legion, view the CVA's plan as essentially a Trojan horse that would drastically undermine the mostly socialized VA healthcare system.

Regrettably, the film, almost devoid of music, is drastically undermined at its end by an inadvertently comic rap tribute by the Kansas City performance artist to the "American citizen with Palestinian blood".

The administration argument that it had only gotten intelligence about potential terrorist attacks abroad in the summer of 2001 was rather drastically undermined when Ms. Rice revealed, under questioning, that the briefing given Mr. Bush by the C.I.A. on Aug. 6, 2001, was titled "Bin Laden Determined to Attack Inside the United States".

What high crimes did President Clinton commit that so drastically undermined the office of the presidency?

Stacking the federal courts with right-wing ideologues is drastically undermining the laws as we know them.

An alternative view is that it is not the formal structure of the Council – which in theory is capable of exercising judicial, legislative and review functions – but the presence of a practically single-party Parliament that drastically undermines the PCMR's powers, restricting it solely to an advisory capacity.