Fong doesn't examine in detail the way that the concept of "overpopulation" has been questioned since the 1970s, but many factors have undermined it; for instance, China is a major trading partner with the world and has no need to be self-sufficient in food, and the green revolution in crops meant the spread of high-yield grains.
We should not undermine it by, for instance, building out of town shopping centers or suburbs.
Clinton doesn't like to play an overtly political role anymore; he enjoys the statesmanlike aura that surrounds any ex-president, and he is not about to undermine it, even for his wife's campaign.
As in the case of Sense-certainty, here in the case of Perception, by following the protagonist consciousness's efforts to make this implicit criterion explicit, we see how the criterion generates contradictions that eventually undermine it as a criterion for certainty.
If you have somebody who tries to undermine it, it is a recipe for disaster.
Half the participants were told that one kind of study supported the deterrent effect and the other undermined it, while for other participants the conclusions were swapped.
Mr. Obama did support several Democratic provisions that were among those ultimately blamed for undermining it.
Absurdist satire works when it undermines; it is porously unfit for building upon.
Far from epitomising capitalism, the undeserving rich undermined it: it was socialism for the wealthy.These two charges run together, but the second has much less justification.
In this article, we revisit foundational statistical concepts relevant to reproducible research in the context of the animal sciences, raise awareness on common statistical misuse undermining it, and outline recommendations for statistical practice.
