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But they threaten to undermine substantive understandings with the Palestinians.

The Latin America and the Caribbean region is facing a number of challenges, including the recent economic slowdown, the more than 130 million chronically poor people, pervasive inequality, high levels of violence and recurrent natural disasters, all of which underlie the humanitarian situation, undermine substantive development gains and reinforce persistent poverty.

We've known for decades that extrinsic rewards and punishments are successful only for short-term simplistic goals, yet the idea persists in crucial areas of national need like education and medicine, undermining substantive progress.

During oral arguments, in March, the justices' questions clearly anticipated the reasoning of Tuesday's majority opinion, with Justice Joyce L. Kennard suggesting then that even if the initiative took away the "label of marriage," it did not undermine the substantive rights involved.

The inadequate compensation for CRs undervalues their contributions and undermines substantive community involvement in CTSA activities.

On occasion, Mr. Schlosser undermines the substantive points he wants to make by seeming eager to blame that industry for virtually every contemporary ill.

Our conclusion is reinforced by our assessment that resort to the arbitration process does not inherently undermine any of the substantive rights afforded to petitioners under the Securities Act.

This is just fine; the green space has become saturated with undifferentiated initiatives and misleading messaging that can undermine the many credible, substantive efforts out there.

But that should not obscure the main point: their assertion that missile defenses, specifically SM-3 IIB interceptors, will threaten Russian ICBMs and thereby undermine the strategic balance now has no substantive basis.

But by the end of the week, the reports of cheating were so numerous, and so substantive, that they could seriously undermine any claims to legitimacy by the eventual winner, whoever it is.

When J.M. Hinton first introduced discussion of the disjunctive view of experience his primary concern was to identify and undermine what he took to be a substantive assumption in much philosophical theorising about perception.