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"Government-authorized piracy would undermine chances for a settlement.
The US president spoke out amid concerns that security fears in Paris coupled with an understandable deflection of French attention away from the imminent two-week summit might undermine chances for a historic agreement to rein in greenhouse gas emissions.
They say they undermine chances for a negotiated peace deal.
The U.S. public may feel the recent Intermediate Nuclear Forces Treaty and continuing strategic arms talks mean something like a winding down of the Cold War, but U.S. intelligence services feel hard-pressed by a vigorous opponent, and their alarm works to undermine chances for further easing of tensions.
"Whether it's Ghani or Abdullah," one NGO worker told me before Sunday's result, "it won't be legitimate". The elite bargains that went into building the two contending camps and negotiating Sunday's deal also undermine chances for the type of profound governance reforms Afghans crave.
U.S. administrations cautioned that settlements "undermined chances for peace," but U.S. leaders did little to indicate they meant it.
The violence has undermined chances of beginning a process, set out by a panel led by former Senator George J. Mitchell, to return to negotiations.
Still others say the vote showed a profound structural problem with Israel's electoral system that undermines chances for a stable democracy.
In the culmination of a month-long barrage of innuendo against Iran in Egypt's state-owned press, a recent editorial in the staid Cairo daily, al-Ahram, charged the Islamic Republic with undermining chances for peace in Iraq, Palestine and Lebanon.
Israel has condemned a vote by British MPs in favour of recognising a Palestinian state as "undermining chances for peace" as Britain's ambassador to Israel warned that the move reflected changing British public opinion.
Even as Europeans publicly press the United States to produce firm commitments, they also do not want to be blamed for undermining chances of an agreement by taking an unrealistic stance with the United States.
