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Ashton said bluntly that Israel had been undermining progress toward peace talks.

It was a beautiful and deeply pleasing light, but the roots of the magnificent avocado tree had been undermining the concrete foundation of Nachman's house for years.

The dissidents had been imprisoned as part of a 2003 crackdown on journalists and activists who, according to Fidel Castro, had been undermining the Cuban government on behalf of the United States.

Many loyal to Blair claimed that Brown's supporters had been undermining Blair's leadership for several years; indeed, in June 2007 a leaked document surfaced showing that Blair had considered removing Brown as chancellor of the Exchequer after the 2005 election.

Oklahoma City also allowed Clinton to depict violent right-wing extremism as a natural outgrowth of the hot antigovernment rhetoric coming from angry conservatives like Rush Limbaugh and G. Gordon Liddy, which had been undermining his presidency.

Mr. Sensenbrenner said it had been necessary for Congress to act because the "growing problem of downward departures" -- the term for sentences that fall below the minimum produced by the guidelines -- had been "undermining sentencing fairness throughout the federal system".

He claimed that his plan had been undermined by the dysfunctional corporate governance at Airbus.

And his colleague was tipped off to the possibility that he had been undermined.

He believed that it was a principle that, a generation later, had been undermined.

Last week, he told the justice select committee how his independence had been undermined.

The former vice president and climate campaigner said that US democracy had been undermined.