But they wanted to do so without American fingerprints that might undermine the message.
Nobody seemed interested in stories that might undermine that image at home or abroad.
But advertising prescription drugs means filling patients' heads with half-understood blobs of medical knowledge that might undermine doctors' authority.
China has the diplomatic muscle to resist trade and currency concessions that might undermine its competitive edge.
They meet on campus regularly, to check progress, thrash out problems and hunt for oversights that might undermine their work.
We have not found any evidence of behaviour that might undermine the conclusions of the IPCC assessments".
Nor was NBC apparently apoplectic about Endemol's participation in a show that might undermine an enormous NBC investment.
Instead it served to expose the defensive frailties that might undermine this team against opponents of real pedigree.
But, in other ways, he was curiously impervious to anything that might undermine moral values of a bygone age.
Anything that might undermine incentives to invest in such a dynamic part of the economy would, it is said, be highly damaging.
In the images in global circulation, grabbed from a Guardian video, he avoids the one facial expression that might undermine his enigma: he doesn't smile.
