Sentence examples for effect undermine from inspiring English sources

The procurement provisions included in the WTO, NAFTA and the various Free Trade Agreements now in effect undermine the ability of federal and state governments to use tax dollars to create and maintain good jobs by banning "Buy America" and similar preferences.

Furthermore, the discourse on access to allowances is one prudent example of the concerns about the financial returns of the work, but as Ridde claims the allowance system may in effect undermine health systems [ 36].

Public spending cuts have the opposite effect: undermining confidence, reducing private spending and pushing the economy into a downward spiral.

Unfortunately, Rio+20 could also have the exact opposite effect, undermining development and poverty reduction objectives in a very significant way.

But antitrust regulators said these past mergers had in effect undermined the case for the American-US Airways combination.

Instead, China's leaders are tarnishing their own Olympiad by abetting genocide in Darfur and in effect undermining the U.N. military deployment there.

Although he puts this story's most grating sarcasm in the mouths of secondary characters and means to highlight their combativeness, its cumulative wise-guy effect undermines his greater purpose.

"They will not quit," said Christine A. Callies, chief United States investment strategist at Merrill Lynch, "until they achieve success in turning around capital spending and compensating for the negative wealth effect" undermining consumer spending.

In April, he queried the definition of "aggression" in relation to Japan's colonial wars in Asia in effect undermining the basis of Tokyo's relations with its former victims.

Spanish car sales fell 13.9 percent in March from the previous year, deeper than a 9.8 percent fall in February as a seasonal effect undermined a government subsidy to stimulate the sector, the car manufacturers association Anfac said Monday.

McVeigh is by common consent the best argument for capital punishment imaginable -- a remorseless mass murderer of unambiguous guilt -- and yet his execution, by defying the widespread expectations for civic satisfaction that it promised, may instead have had the reverse effect, undermining confidence in the value of this distinctly American form of justice.