Sentence examples for slowly undermining from inspiring English sources

Subtly but relentlessly, slowly undermining her family's connections to L.A., this last muddled and frightening year, nudging them off their foundations and onto the road, away.

The rise of wealth, a middle class, education and international contacts are slowly undermining one-party rule and nurturing a new kind of politics.

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"It was crucial to stop the panic, and this package has done it, but it doesn't solve the longer-term problems which are slowly undermining the value of the euro," Mr. Annunziata said.

Although hospitable chaos made Ms. Narayan's home a headquarters for traveling Europeans and Americans in search of mind-blowing experiences in the 1960s ("My address is passed all along the hash trail," her mother once announced proudly), internal tensions were slowly undermining the family structure.

In the meantime, the system is being slowly undermined from below.

In the long run, however, the church is being slowly undermined by the critical powers of inquiry it helped unleash.

Organized religion is full of misguided liturgies, bad preachers, and off-key singing: the sort of minor but menacing distractions that can slowly undermine the patient's faith.

Though she is skeptical of supernatural phenomena, the datura slowly undermines that skepticism; each day seems to bring one serendipitous event after another, not to mention mild hallucinations.

As the experience of the Cold War has demonstrated, these exchanges lead to the spread of information, which in turn slowly undermines the power of the regime, whose legitimacy is largely based on false claims.

Whereas the larger context of perestroika and the attractions of the West played an important role, the decisive factor was the conduct of provincial actors information smugglers, pastors, artists, students, journalists and housewives who met every week mostly at churches, and slowly undermined the regime.Ms Sarotte also debunks the myth that the East Germans' protest was bound to be peaceful.