Sentence examples for essentially undermined from inspiring English sources

Amazon essentially undermined the e-reader market it created by introducing the now-popular Kindle Fire tablet.

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

In trying to undermine Sanders, Debbie Wasserman Schultz essentially undermined the Democratic Party.

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.

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.

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.

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.

To use such a powerful tool to essentially undermine the courts to support a man who has been judged, after years of investigation, to be wilfully violating human rights, engaging in racial profiling, who was voted out of office by his district, but who still doesn't think he's done anything wrong.

Democratic senators have circulated a document arguing that a new deputy attorney general could deny Mr. Mueller the power to take investigative steps and decline to sign off on staff or resources, essentially undermining the investigation without officially ending it or prompting the kind of Republican backlash on Capitol Hill that firing Mr. Mueller almost certainly would.

Immunity essentially undermines that premise.

"We are essentially undermining access to entire interest blocs," Kohn said.