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What will be hardest of all to undermine is the Isis story, which is that Islam is under attack, has been for centuries, and that now is the moment for Muslims to rise up and dedicate themselves to its defence.

Still, to imagine that a problem as damaging and pervasive as social isolation can be remedied with ample good will and sufficient cups of tea, rather than with a renewed commitment to the kind of institutions that the government continues to undermine, is wishful thinking, as baseless in its own way as the Brexit delusion of restored British independence.

What it attempts to undermine is the idea that anything other than agnosticism as to whether or not you are perceiving is warranted, even in this situation.

The only thing the Prime Minister wants to undermine is the outdated principle that only one-size-fits-all is the way forward for the EU".

He now has 30 days to form a cabinet.Creating a government sufficiently inclusive to win back the trust of Sunnis, and thus undermine IS, will be no easy task.

Come to think of it, can you undermine a  period of calm at all? "Undermine" is a  metaphor from medieval siegecraft.

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Originally, to "undermine" was to breach or destroy a military wall from below.

"My statutory obligation is being undermined, is that not a contempt of court?" he said.

The daily roller coaster of rights tenuously sustained or completely undermined is dizzying.

Social undermining was higher in the BD group (p = 2 × 10−3).

The GMC's report shows that those trainees who experience bullying and undermining are less satisfied with their training.

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