Should Mr. Brown win, it would undercut assurances Mr. Obama has been offering nervous Democrats that health care will ultimately lift them at the polls.
(Unfortunately for the feds, however, the present impasse undercuts their assurances that selling weapons to the House of Saud will give us more leverage to call them out for human rights abuses).
(Unfortunately for the feds, however, the present impasse undercuts their assurances that selling weapons to the House of Saud will give us more leverage to call them out for human rights abuses). There doesn't seem to be any rush for the Saudis to divest from their partial ownership of the Canadian Wheat Board.
The joint communiqué seemed to indicate U.S. recognition of Portuguese sovereignty in Goa, which undercut Cooper's assurances to the Indians of U.S. neutrality in the matter.
Senator Carl Levin, a Michigan Democrat and longtime ally of the auto industry, said in a floor statement that he was voting for the fuel efficiency measure based on assurances that it would not be "undercut" by future rules from the environmental agency on emissions of heat-trapping gases like carbon dioxide.
It also provides additional support for efforts by other actors — ranging from California to the European Union — by providing greater assurance that their efforts will not be undercut by increased emissions elsewhere.
But the president gave Mr. Priebus many of the same assurances of control, and then proceeded to undercut and ignore him — to the point where Mr. Priebus often positioned himself at the door of the Oval Office to find out whom the president was talking to.
Undercutting Mr. Spicer's solemn condolence to Mr. Owens, and his assurance that the raid was crucial to national safety, was the unusual necktie he chose: a combination of garish red, silver and baby blue stripes on a ground of electric Gatorade blue.
The subject of Russia placed Mr. Powell in a careful balancing act between warm expressions of friendship for Georgia and repeated assurances that the United States had no ambitions to undercut Russian interests in a region historically locked in Russia's grip.
But in spite of the assurances from Washington that his position in Saigon would not be undercut in the Paris talks, Mr. Thieu felt it necessary to hedge this offer with careful conditions effective supervision and no military advantage for the enemy.
For producers, of course, a next move might be to withdraw their residuals plan, possibly in return for a private assurance that writers would respond with a similar movement, and perhaps in time to undercut the strike authorization vote.
