Sentence examples for undermine modest from inspiring English sources

Stuff is happening: the Fed bungled its communications, doing its bit to undermine modest economic progress; the European Commission is sorta kinda relaxing its demands for austerity; the Bank of England appears to have issued forward guidance that it's going to issue forward guidance; and so on.

This undermined a modest improvement in advertising and such fickle services as branding.

Romney's Medicare ad is designed to undermine that relatively modest but potentially crucial advantage.

The current anti-science and populist political mood threatens to undermine even the modest targets agreed in Paris.

And the program could undermine a more modest and achievable goal: resuscitating a nuclear industry that hasn't launched a successful reactor project since 1974.

The big banks are using their cash to push to undermine even the modest reforms that were passed soon after President Obama took office.

Skeptics might argue that expanding the joint plan would give Iran the opportunity to undermine sanctions, but modest sanctions relief is unlikely to weaken the overall sanctions regime.

On the libertarian Hit & Run blog, Peter Suderman argues that congressional legislators have "actively resisted even modest attempts at oversight... under the pretence that those modest efforts would undermine national security".

Over the last few weeks, foreign analysts have implied that the earthquake may have undermined even these modest democratic gains.

Grover Norquist and other heavyweights from the antitax establishment in Washington are journeying down to warn that even this modest increase could undermine President Bush's election-year image as the party's unyielding tax-cutter in chief.

From there, SideCar's modest goal is to undermine the idea of car ownership.