Using the fund in this way would undermine its purpose and make a huge dent in money available.
For now, that would seem to undermine the purpose of low interest rates, which is to get companies and consumers spending again.
OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS A game show with a concept that seems to undermine the purpose of most game shows — namely to surprise.
Such timing might undermine the purpose of options, which are meant to encourage executives to act to make their stock rise.
To be so cowed by the letter of the law is to undermine its purpose: the promotion of a useful art, in this case flying.
NextWave had countered that the purpose of Chapter 11 was to preserve a debtor's assets in order to permit it to reorganize, and a victory for the F.C.C. would fundamentally undermine the purpose of that law.
The compromise offered to the rebels this week by Ruth Kelly, the embattled education secretary, does not completely undermine the purpose of the forthcoming bill, but it does weaken it (see article).
The party wants "reasonable, clear, and workable guidance in actually complying with and living with this law, and the idea that that somehow serves to undermine its purpose is completely wrong and unfair," said Joseph Sandler, a lawyer for the Democratic National Committee.
There were worries that families would drop out of the program or undermine the purpose of the changes by using their own money to buy lots of less healthy foods.
"This would completely undermine the purpose of the policy".
Not only does remedial work undermine the purpose of a college education, it may not even work.
