Sentence examples for partly undermined from inspiring English sources

He said Qualcomm's argument that the June ruling would hamper public safety appeared to have been at least partly undermined by Broadcom's agreements with the two mobile carriers.

Although Airbus is probably right about the volume of traffic and the attraction of lower costs, this advantage could be partly undermined by a Sonic Cruiser siphoning off the lucrative business traffic that provides most of the airlines' profits.

That bid had already been partly undermined by amendments this year in Kazakhstan that ended term limits for the president and could allow Mr. Nazarbayev to become president for life.

And there are other, more exacting readers, who find his many formal skills as a writer partly undermined by a weakness for underlying clichés of characterisation and his somewhat pedestrian late-period imaginings of "good" and "bad".

The band's name, the cover art (comic-strip panels turning a scene from a western into a tableau of imperialism) and the lyrics bespoke a clever brand of Marxism, which the record's title and the infectious, jagged beats only partly undermined.

Henkel's profile as a law and order candidate was partly undermined by the fact that Berlin refugee authority LaGeSo gained a reputation for bureaucratic inefficiency and inhumane conditions under his own watch, leading to jibes of Berlin as a "failed city".

"There is an extremely new domain being constructed, which partly undermines architecture or eliminates the reason for being of architecture -- the electronic domain," he says.

At the same time this study contains plenty of evidence of outright cynicism, "intentional chaos," technocratic rationality, opportunism and crudely calculating manipulation that partly undermines the author's cult hypothesis.

American citizens and commercial interests have been attacked partly for ransom money to help finance insurgencies and partly to undermine national economies.

Hatton Garden is the swan song for a certain type of crime and villain, partly sophisticated but undermined by small but crucial errors.

This is partly because marketers have undermined coupon effectiveness by shortening expiration dates and other actions, Meyers argues, but it's also no doubt because the consumer outlook during the current slowdown is more dire.