Sentence examples for fall undermined from inspiring English sources

A difference emerged between the financial health of the king, and that of the country, although Cromwell's fall undermined much of his bureaucracy, which required his hand to keep order among the many new bodies and prevent profligate spending which strained relations as well as finances.

This novel is also about family: "A woman returns to the house in Morecambe Bay where she grew up in the 1950s and 60s to find it falling apart, undermined by the roots of two huge sycamores.

But with corporate profits weak, Wall Street fears that further layoffs this fall could undermine consumer confidence, sending the country into a recession and worsening the slump in the rest of the world.

But Mr Zarrouk argues that the security services have suffered a series of blows since Ben Ali's fall that have significantly undermined its ability to function.

In the case of the physical intuition that a house undermined will fall, that intuition is not based solely on the person's understanding what the proposition means and so her intuitive belief that it is true is not a priori justified.

You can have a belief that P while not considering P, but you can't have an intuition that P while not considering P. Bealer distinguishes between rational or intellectual intuitions on the one hand and physical intuitions on the other, saying that a person could have a physical, but not an intellectual, intuition that (7b): A house undermined will fall (Bealer 1992: 102).

International rules allow the banks to count unrealised stockmarket gains as capital, but the gains are increasingly being undermined by falling share prices.All of which makes the case for prompt action, especially to fight falling prices.

It has everything to do with year after year of steadily rising labour costs and falling productivity, which have undermined Italian competitiveness and exports.

Miners continue to be undermined by falling metal prices, with Antofagasta down 24.25p to 329p and BHP Billiton off 44p at 904.5p.

Credit Suisse is also emerging from the aftermath of a $22 billion spending spree by its former chief executive, Lukas Muehlemann, whose expansion into investment banking and insurance, undermined by falling markets and a huge slowdown in mergers business, was seen as contributing to last year's losses.

I didn't have space to get into it, but there's some indication that Bo Xilai's fall is also undermining Zhou Yongkang, the grim Chinese security chief, a man who brightens any room by leaving it.