Sentence examples for i undermine from inspiring English sources

The 'cut-and-fill' design (Fig. 3) could be at origin of landslides and road embankment failures: "an approximately equal cut-and-fill cross-section can (i) undermine the upper slope, causing it to fail, (ii) overload the downhill slope, causing it to fail, or (iii) cause the entire slope to become an active landslide".

"Many have said that this argument shouldn't have to be made, and that in making it I undermine the artistic integrity of the arts.

And as "star and executive producer on the Tom Cruise model," in which he hires someone to direct him in his own movies, "I undermine the auteur position; I obediently follow the director's orders," he said.

Each time I judge myself, I undermine my self-worth, I place immense pressure on my nervous system, and I create a negative reference point for my sense of self.

In "Bright-Sided: How Positive Thinking Is Undermining America" (Picador; $15), Barbara Ehrenreich subjects the new New Thought of Rhonda Byrne and others to scrutiny.

Now, along comes Heather Rogers, who warns about the dangers of buying into this mind-set with "Green Gone Wrong: How Our Economy Is Undermining the Environmental Revolution" (Scribner, 272 pages, $26).

It doesn't help that we now live in what Barbara Ehrenreich has denounced as "ribbon culture" in "Bright-sided: How Positive Thinking Is Undermining America," her book about breast cancer.

In Barbara Ehrenreich's book "Bright-Sided: How Positive Thinking Is Undermining America," she dissects the darker history of positive thinking, the cult of optimism that has, in recent decades, she writes, metastasized into "an apology for the crueller aspects of the market economy".

Trump's Enemies: How The Deep State Is Undermining The Presidency is due out Tuesday, but the Post obtained an advance copy. .

Service at the front with the Red Cross in World War I undermined his health, and he retired to Brittany in 1918, subsequently devoting himself to composition.

Callahan shot back on Tuesday: "Any suggestion that I would undermine the integrity of the sport that I love and dedicated my life to, or dishonor the commitment I made to our players, coaches and fans is flat out wrong".