Sentence examples for undermine relatively from inspiring English sources

Groups like Hezbollah and even Al Qaeda stand poised to take advantage and press varying nightmare agendas, to undermine relatively moderate Arab governments, or to join in a more overt assault on the very existence of Israel.

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

In most schools across the country the cafeteria managers, principals and athletic coaches undermine the relatively healthful, federally subsidized school lunch because they need to raise money.

As insurgents fight to undermine confidence in the relatively untested Afghan security forces, such attacks have taken on new weight in the minds and psyches of the Afghan public.

That tax cut threatens to undermine one of the relatively bright spots in Wednesday's GDP report.

The payments system, much of which was left to the last minute, could also prove a problem for the Obama administration, as it could undermine what had been a relatively successful attempt to compensate for the troubled few weeks that the exchanges – and those who attempted to access them – experienced last fall.

These vessels, with their firepower and capacity for high speeds, helped implement a policy of control that began to undermine the region's long-standing, relatively open trade competition.

Consistent throughout the book is Ross's focus on how attitudes about status undermine democracy, allowing small numbers of relatively privileged people to effect policies that have negative impacts on many more.

Genes do occasionally evolve to succeed at the expense of other genes within the same organism, such as cancer and meiotic drive, but they are relatively uncommon and tend to undermine the functionality of the organism when they occur.

In breaking down disciplinary boundaries an interdisciplinary health researcher can be perceived as threatening, or attempting to undermine foundations of specific disciplines, which operate relatively independently [ 16].

And funnelling funding to a relatively small group of universities would undermine the international partnerships agenda.