Sentence examples for undermine by from inspiring English sources

But rent-seeking operations are really easy to undermine by regulation.

Société Générale dominates distribution in France, along with Crédit Agricole; but it also has a thriving fund-management operation of its own, which it is not about to undermine by hawking competitors' products.

And, unlike the renewable energy-backed companies they want to undermine by attacking the RET, they've been getting away with screwing households on their electricity bills by hitting customers with almost obscene profit margins as energy retailers.

Some clubs devised academy programmes aimed at exploiting the three-year residential qualification period for non-nationals, something the World Rugby vice-chairman, Agustín Pichot, is trying to undermine by raising it to at least five years.

Carter waxed lyrical about the "garages and dorm rooms and home offices and research laboratories" of tech-sector giants and pledged to "preserve access to a free, open and secure internet" that technologists say the FBI will undermine by compelling Apple to write software that rolls back the company's user-security features.

"How a powerful African empire built a kingdom that covered vast swaths of southern Africa is a source of pride for Zimbabweans – and something that colonial governments tried for a long time to undermine by linking this wondrous kingdom to the Phoenicians".

But he was undermined by bad knees.

Many feel undermined by such an appointment.

Unfortunately, they are undermined by their surroundings.

It's not undermined by our country.

Trustworthiness is often undervalued and even undermined by company culture.