Sentence examples for essentially undermine from inspiring English sources

In a written response submitted late last month, city lawyers scoffed at the notion, calling it a "startling premise" and a "radical proposal" that would essentially undermine the power of legislatures to amend or revoke laws passed by referendum.

Democrats made it clear from the start these measures, which essentially undermine the ACA, were non-starters.

CSM: This new law will essentially undermine what little progress Tennessee has seen since the Scopes trial.

But the effects have been spotty at best, and a run-up in oil prices this year essentially undermined much of the economic effects.

By late Sunday, when a meeting in the Democratic caucus made it clear that the arena plan was doomed, Mr. James and several allies withheld support for Mr. McGreevey's business tax proposal, essentially undermining the entire budget.

There the phones' digital locks are broken so they can work on local cellular networks, and they are outfitted with localized software, essentially undermining Apple's effort to introduce the phone with exclusive partnership deals, similar to its primary partnership agreement with AT&T in the United States.

Immunity essentially undermines that premise.

Yesterday, the state Senate joined the House in passing a bill that would make it significantly more difficult for defendants to prove racial bias, essentially undermining the intent of the act.

WND published MassResistance's freak-out over a questionnaire purportedly linked to Jennings asking such questions as "What do you think caused your heterosexuality?" Unruh, in a Dec. 18 article, asserted that the questionnaire "essentially undermines the basic building block of civilization, the family".

By promoting action as an integral component of the research process, and by not placing as much emphasis on publishing for example, the program essentially undermined the systems under which Northern researchers – and many Southern researchers – operated in which creating new knowledge through research and publication is seen as the means for scientific and professional advancement.

But what has not changed is the strict division along religious lines that defines -- and essentially undermines -- Lebanon as a country.