Sentence examples for undermine less from inspiring English sources

By building up Rostenkowski, Darman and other officials hoped to make him a more prominent figure in any budget negotiations that may have to take place before the year is out, and at the same time time to undermine less favored Democrats, including Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell, Senate Budget Committee Chairman James Sasser, Democrat of Tennessee, and Rep. Dick Gephardt.

In addition, they have undermined less ambitious yet more meaningful progress on the ground.

Caldwell vetoed the expansion bill because he said it could open the city up to lawsuits that could undermine a less stringent version of the ban.

Mr. Noel Coward was invited away reluctantly to spend the weekend with some people that he knew, and after the rigamarou of questions about all his plays and his current hit, "This Year of Grace" in which he expended enough facial expression to undermine a less considerable constitution than his, he was doubled up with someone who was a perfect stranger.

The theorem's conclusion can also be undermined in less extreme cases (Berend and Paroush 1998), for instance when each individual's reliability, though above 1/2, is an exponentially decreasing function approaching 1/2 with increasing jury size (List 2003a).

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

It may be initiated by a person or group and tries to undermine those considered less powerful, innocent or less threatening.

Mr. Price said he is not trying to corner the steel drum market, much less undermine the instrument's significance for Trinidad and Tobago.

Brilliant proposals are often undermined through less-than brilliant execution.

Some faculty particularly those from prestigious research-based institutions seem to fear that their status could be undermined by less-stringent academic standards.

So many solid upgrades, undermined by less-than-intuitive infotainment controls and cluttered interior styling.