'undermine opportunities' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when something is preventing someone from taking advantage of a chance or opportunity. For example: Failing to plan ahead and prioritize tasks can undermine opportunities for success.
In a letter to her colleagues explaining the purpose of the "United Nations Transparency, Accountability and Reform Act", Ros-Lehtinen wrote that a Palestinian self-declared state "would short-circuit the negotiating process, and would severely undermine opportunities for peace between Israel and the Palestinians".
He continued: "We need to organize all the working class and underserved communities to go to work to fight off this money grab... that a great number of the [rich] corporations and individuals to undermine opportunities to give opportunity and resources to the poor".
However, a recent study by Reijntjes et al. (2007) examining the linkage between depressive symptoms and feedback preferences among pre-adolescents provided preliminary evidence that children holding negative self-views may not always be more inclined than their peers to eschew positive feedback and undermine opportunities to improve their self-views.
Innovation, Sustainability, Development: A new manifesto, published yesterday, states that out-dated innovation policy is undermining opportunities for development.
The group has been fighting, in effect, for the most irresponsible for-profit college operators, and thereby undermining opportunity for those owners who would like to succeed by genuinely helping students to train for careers.
Increasing knowledge and pity may yield unintended consequences which may undermine life opportunities of people with the illness.
Why would House Republicans seek to undermine those opportunities for America's service men and women, and our families?
Racial and socio-economic stratification persists in one form or another and continues to undermine the opportunities for all children to receive quality education.
These problems fundamentally undermine New Yorkers' opportunities for a better future, and I believe that the Office of the Public Advocate, with the right structure, can take the lead in addressing these challenges and producing results for working families.
However, the partial transfer of responsibilities to the local level, which results in unbalanced accountability relations, seems to undermine the opportunities created at the local level.
Transferring appropriate knowledge and technology from developed countries is desirable, yet should not undermine the opportunities that abound in developing countries and that should be transformed and harnessed towards improved cancer care [ 2, 17].
