Or at least undermine the efforts doctors, nurses and even complete strangers make on their behalf.
And while the police and prosecutors are not judge and jury on the state of the game, the process that has started in Bochum, in Germany, is, to say the least, undermining.
The controversy represents yet another attempt by Smith to create some sort of scandal that would, to his mind at least, undermine the credibility of an entire branch of science.
The new lawsuit hopes to, at the least, undermine Uber's claim that they are the "safest rides on the road".
The interim leaders in Kiev accuse the Kremlin of orchestrating the separatist turmoil to prevent or at least undermine a free and fair vote for a new Ukrainian president in little more than three weeks.
But Blatter's unstated assumption here is that the U.K. and the United States are working together along with the Swiss, to undermine FIFA, or at least undermine his control and global hegemony amongst the rank and file of FIFA's members.
Salaam (via 'back channels') corroborates the acceptance of killing by those whom remain at the safe house; and Ferris accuses Hoffman of running "side operations" which interfere and (at least) undermine operational integrity of primary operation and tells Hoffman to stop.
In recent months and years, though, incursions on Bharara's record have piled up, casting his legacy into doubt, or at least undermining some of his signature accomplishments.
Much of the rest of the world has been all too swift to condemn the coup while remaining conspicuously silent as Mr Thaksin steadily consolidated his power by emasculating or, at the very least, undermining the authority of supposedly independent institutions like the senate, the election commission and the constitutional court.
Absorbing lower-wage workers in host nations means that domestic wages are at least somewhat undermined.
