Much of the damage is hidden: undermined foundations, devastated castle gardens, soaked cellars and damaged heating and alarm systems in castles, museums, galleries and archives.
However, (4) a weak infrastructure, including scanty education and training in end-of-life care and a poor evidence base, that appeared to undermine the foundations on which the Liverpool Care Pathway was built.
If we allow these practices to continue they will undermine the foundations on which all genuine wealth creation is built.
Aghast, conservatives retort that gay marriage will undermine the foundations of society.And George Bush?
They are beautiful but, like recreational drugs and termites, they can undermine the foundations of your existence.
Despite their monumental size, the dams can be weakened by foraging gophers and squirrels, whose holes undermine the foundations.
Regionalism's critics contend that preferential trade deals are not just inferior to multilateral trade, but that they also undermine its foundations.
Those protesters ultimately seek to "undermine the foundations of the State of Israel as a Zionist and democratic state," Mr. Barak said.
Few voices did more to undermine the foundations of the Berlin Wall and the entire edifice of Soviet-imposed totalitarianism than this shy bourgeois, this sly, reticent, playwright and essayist.
Critics accused the New Historians of politically tendentious readings of the archives, of slandering a people that had barely escaped extermination, and of trying to undermine the foundations of the state.
