Sentence examples for regularly undermined from inspiring English sources

As a Western conductor working in East Germany, he was regularly undermined by party functionaries.

But whatever they had imbibed at home was regularly undermined by what the wider society presented – including the spectacle, in a good many settings last August, of adults inciting younger people to join them in looting or violence.

A third former quality controller with several years' experience at Scunthorpe in the recent past, who asked for anonymity, described being regularly undermined and bypassed when trying to enforce hygiene rules.

Yet their work is regularly undermined by the international community through events such as the award of the Olympic Games to Beijing, continued trade with Chinese companies known to abuse human rights and statements such as this one by the Archbishop of Canterbury.

And, while the Baggies worked hard to get back into the game, their efforts were regularly undermined by a lack of composure and quality in the final third.

These proposals are regularly undermined by (well meaning) therapeutic models that treat domestic violence as individual psychological problems of anger management or substance abuse or the like, rather than as part of a widespread social problem.

But for the state to do so regularly undermines our trust in parents (the most important people there are), and is far more dangerous than what you seek to ban.

President Bush seems to be all for religious freedom as long as the religion is his own; he regularly undermines the principles of separation of church and state when it allows him to further the agenda of the religious right, then turns his back on constitutional guarantees intended to protect all faiths when it suits his national security "needs".

When candidate Barack Obama broke his promise to use public financing as a brake on lavish presidential campaign spending, he left another promise in its wake: to overhaul election financing and the federal commission that regularly undermines rather than enforces campaign law.

His impulsivity regularly undermines yesterday's spin and last week's alibi.

Whereas in some areas - such as prescribers' trust in particular pharmaceuticals companies and their products - trust relationships are strong and regularly reinforced through gift-giving, social events, and medical representatives' activities, in these cases (and others) trust is threatened, undermined or regularly needs to be renegotiated and re-established.