Sentence examples for gradually undercut from inspiring English sources
But the manufacturers themselves acknowledge that they gradually undercut their ability to export as they moved more and more production to factories overseas.
When Bill Clinton was in the twilight months of his presidency, he made a compelling case that by integrating China into the world economy we would gradually undercut the viability of its authoritarian government.
In this universe, by contrast, many of our most earnest and high-minded social reformers look at Mormon sexual culture — an island of stable, high-functioning families in a sea of social dissolution — and see the same thing that polygamy's 19th century critics saw: A society whose definition of wedlock is a "relic of barbarism," destined to be gradually undercut or overthrown.
The court's jurisdiction was gradually undercut by the King's Bench and Exchequer of Pleas with legal fictions, the Bill of Middlesex and Writ of Quominus respectively.
Naturally, as the markets gradually saturate, undercutting the sitting incumbent will be the most immediately appealing strategy for new entrants.
The government is careful to trim prices only gradually so as not to undercut the domestic manufacturers, analysts said.
Policy shifts of the 1990s towards multiparty transparency that began to shift power to the ordinary people were gradually dismantled as politicians, often linked to business enterprises, undercut the legitimacy of village-based natural resource management.
But Mr. Bush has seriously undercut his argument that these subsidies should be gradually eliminated.
I realized that I gradually shied away from doing things independently for fear of upsetting my boss or undercutting company policy.
Gradually, rows of Sourz-splattered lads on tour T-shirts have been replaced by a throng of rainbow-stained undercuts at Holi.
