Critics contend that enforcing expansive quotas will undercut the quality of Brazil's public university system, given the nation's relatively weak public elementary and secondary schools.
Their argument is one that has been lobbed at Caribbean schools for decades: that those schools turn out poorly trained students who undercut the quality of training for their New York peers learning alongside them at the same hospitals.
Nobody wins by undercutting the quality of jobs by flooding the market with guest workers.
They know that desiring the same thing their masters have in spades, that by kneecapping the creators of content, the hewers of material, the sculptors of tools, by undercutting the quality of the product in order to secure even greater yields, they would virtually ensure the end of, dare I say, all we profess to hold dear in this country.
Like the thin cars, they undercut the iconic qualities of certain cars — to transform a svelte Porsche into a pudgy roadster, as he has done, is a joke in itself.
There was also a reticence that undercut the corrosive qualities in stretches of Shostakovich's Trio No. 2 in E minor, in which Mr. Quint and Mr. Neiman were joined by Andrei Tchekmazov, a cellist.
Ultimately, the most frequently-expressed concern seemed to be that, were the marketplaces ever to merge, oDesk freelancers would undercut pricing and dilute the quality.
It took on the quality of a morality play, awkwardly undercut with Darwinian themes of stupidity.
He lets the movie breathe - and, as a result, the cast has a breezy quality that never undercuts the sometimes serious nature of what they're playing.
