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His hacker personality had helped him thrive as an engineer, but it undermined him as he tried to lead programmers who had been his peers at Odeo.

And, finally, she suggests that Mr. Powell let the administration use his prestige and popularity "even as it repeatedly undermined him and disregarded his advice," at least in part because he "simply refused to acknowledge the extent of the losses he had suffered": "Beyond his soldier's sense of duty, he saw even the threat of resignation as an acknowledgment of defeat.

It may be that success undermined him more than failure.

His wicked curveball still engendered limp swings as he registered eight strikeouts, but the Mets undermined him when it mattered.

At the moment, though, Israel has its most reasonable partner ever — Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas — and it is undermining him with its checkpoints and new settlement construction.

"It is other issues other than performance which have undermined him.

And who better to do so than his wife, who presumably felt she could do it without undermining him?

The former editor of The Cincinnati Enquirer has sued the paper's owner, the Gannett Company, accusing it of undermining him while retracting news articles critical of the Chiquita banana company.

But his narrow margin of victory, just 1.5 percentage points, has left him weakened, and if the scandal were to spread it could undermine him further as the nation struggles with a deepening economic crisis characterized by high inflation and shortages of basic foods and other goods, like toilet paper.

The brief outing had undermined him.

In fact, Dreher writes, they undermined him.