Sentence examples for fails to undermine from inspiring English sources

Ultimately, this distraction fails to undermine Watson's plan to win the audience over by his vulnerability, rather than beat them into submission as others might.

But even allowing that reasons internalism is correct, they believe this second argument fails to undermine their position.

Rogoff defended his work, saying that the errors failed to undermine the general message.

During the war Peter won many successes against Aragon while Trastamaran propaganda failed to undermine Castilian loyalty toward him.

But they also believe he has so far failed to undermine most of the evidence against him.

Having failed to undermine public acceptance of climate science or turn us against renewable energy, the high-carbon lobby wants to ensure that people have no appetite for the journey to a low-carbon society.

BACKSTAGE at this year's French Designer Showhouse was like a scene from Luis Buñuel's film "The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie," the surreal 1972 classic that follows a band of friends through a series of outrageous plot twists -- infidelity, assassination attempts, armies of unannounced dinner guests -- that fail to undermine the characters' unflappable self-control.

The CIA launched a massive set of covert operations--first to block Allende's inauguration, and, when that failed, to undermine his ability to successfully govern.

Many waved the Kuwaiti flag while others chanted, "Sunnis and Shi'ites are brothers!" The emir visited the mosque and declared that those behind the "cowardly terrorist attack" will fail to undermine Kuwait's national unity.

No matter what Zimmerman's motivations may have been, no matter his feelings about black people, no matter that a police dispatcher told him not to get involved, despite any of that, the prosecution failed to undermine Zimmerman's story that, in the thick of the confrontation, it was he who felt threatened.

Sosa (2008) argues x-phi results fail to undermine the role of intuition in philosophy, which analogically functions (he suggests) as observation functions in empirical science.