Sentence examples for undermine the attempt from inspiring English sources

The Senate bill would further undermine the attempt to close the achievement gap by allowing states to divert Title I money from its main purpose, which is to provide special instruction for impoverished students.

This could undermine the attempt to decrease the need for fossil fuels.

On the other hand, the existence of institutional roles with internal relations does undermine the attempts of certain forms of atomistic individualism to reduce institutions to the individual human agents who happen to constitute them; ex hypothesi, the latter are not qua individual human persons in part defined in terms of their relations to institutional roles.

Ryan alone can reverse this fear, and undermine the attempts to demonize him.

"It was our analysis that the gross and consistent pattern of human rights violations was undermining the attempt to bring democracy to El Salvador because people had been abused for many decades and were demanding change," said Ambassador White, now the president of the Center for International Policy, a Washington research organization.

* Sir Alex's comments undermined the attempts by the FA to encourage higher standards of behaviour.

"The commission also took the view that Sir Alex's comments undermined the attempts by the association, through its Respect campaign to encourage higher standards of behaviour within the game, including respect for officials".

His Sunni identity undermines the attempts of government of Bahrain to visualize the protest movement as a sectarian and pro-Iranian plot, and shows that it has support from parts of the Sunni community.

Importantly, some studies have shown that restrictive dieting while attempting to quit smoking can undermine the quit attempt [ 20, 50, 51].

It could undermine the Tories' attempt to portray themselves as the "party of working people" and revive their image as the "party of the rich".

With pensioners protected, there is growing speculation that Mr Osborne will cut in-work benefits such as tax credits --even though this could undermine the Conservatives' attempt to rebrand themselves as "the party of working people".