Sentence examples for radically undermining from inspiring English sources

I had no idea where Taylor was going until he finally got to his point, which was that the radically undermining impulse of deconstruction had become, over time, a cliche.

Like other German philosophers at the time, Kant's early works are generally concerned with using insights from British empiricist authors to reform or broaden the German rationalist tradition without radically undermining its foundations.

As the Northwest environmental website Sightline notes, "China has started to radically reshape its relationship with coal, in ways that are radically undermining the bullish case for the seaborne coal market".

It is therefore high time for us to persuade our fellow citizens of the fact that this economic and monetary union is the best weapon against the unemployment which is still so radically undermining our society, and I thus believe that the declaration on employment which you have extracted from the European Council, Mr President-in-Office, is a real breakthrough.

Allowing the ordinance to take effect, Mr. DeLay said, "would radically undermine" marriage.

It killed whatever hope was left for the rule of law; it took a heavy toll on the business climate; trust in the court's independence was radically undermined.

But prison education programs were radically undermined during the 1990's, when Congress made convicted felons ineligible for Pell grants, the federal tuition aid program aimed primarily at the poor.

Chris Grayling, the justice secretary, has presented a series of proposed "reforms" to the legal aid system driven by the desire to cut "£220m per year by 2018" that will radically undermine this right.

Hempel appreciated the point, recognizing that some statistical arguments that satisfy his conditions on explanation have the property that, even though all the premises are true, the support they lend to the conclusion would be radically undermined by adding extra premises.

Something more than a thriller, the film also is the personal story of one young man, Changez, whose ambitions and certainties have been radically undermined by global political events and whose character we see developing and shifting in the face of them.

As is often pointed out, a book that has reshaped the philosophy of science was actually conceived and written by a physicist who, having taught an undergraduate course on "physical science for the non-scientist", was exposed to scientific history, and (to his surprise) found his basic conceptions about the nature of the discipline radically undermined.