A succession of economic crises has pushed European governments to pare subsidies to clean-energy sectors like solar power and has undermined initiatives in other areas like energy efficiency, where member states balked at binding targets.
It refused to support the bailout agreement signed by the Greek government, the European Union and the International Monetary Fund on the grounds that it would stifle growth and so it undermined initiatives like tax reform that would have helped combat tax evasion by self-employed professionals and businesses.
The US military opposed talks with the Taliban and undermined initiatives taken by the State Department.
The city's Budget Office has questioned whether the plan would undermine the initiative at Hudson Yards, on the Far West Side of Manhattan.
More particularly, neoconservatives argue that social welfare programs can and often do create dependency and undermine individual initiative, ambition, and responsibility.
Any verdict in favor of the airlines, which claim that the move by the E.U. breaches international conventions and laws, has the potential to undermine the initiative because E.U. regulators and European airlines say participation by foreign carriers is critical.
Any verdict in favor of the U.S. airlines has the potential to undermine the initiative because E.U. regulators and European airlines say participation by airlines from outside the Union is critical.
3.43pm GMT Damascus An activist in Damascus insisted that today's rebel operation in the city would reinforce political pressure on the regime to accept dialogue, rather than undermine the initiative.
He also objected to public ownership of the Post Office, tax exemptions for municipal debt and farm subsidies, all of which have produced costs that still hang heavily over America.Even in the face of natural disasters, he held back, fearing that intervention would undermine individual initiative and corrupt the national government.
The pervasiveness of unions in professional sports offers a frontal challenge to the right-wing argument that unions undermine individual initiative and collective productivity.
