Sentence examples for effect undermined from inspiring English sources

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

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.

Instead, in order to retain its full autonomy, America has in effect undermined a treaty that promised to help restrain the spread of nuclear weapons —which it surely wants.Still, that is the ideological answer: that treaties and other quasi-legal arrangements restrain the autonomy of the United States undesirably.

Chevron, Total, and PTTEP have in effect undermined U.S. foreign policy toward Burma - a policy intended to promote democracy and human rights, not callous profiteering and overt repression.

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.

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.

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.