This episode has only served to undermine the calls for democratic reforms across the region.
That may undermine the calls for an inquiry by Kim's fans – some commentators said that while her routine was smoother, Sotnikova's was technically more demanding.
The fashionable opposition of mythology to science -- whether boldly asserted, then undermined in a book of popular science or plastered onto an eye-catching poster -- does little to bolster the authority of its authors and in the end undermines the call to critical rigor they proclaim.
But referendums unleash emotions that soon undermine the leaders who call them.
Downing Street believes the Police Federation, which paid for posters outside the Tory conference criticising government cuts to the police budget, is behaving like a trade union as it tries to undermine the government by calling for Mitchell to go.
"A whole range of actions that have been undertaken, not without the participation and not without the support of our Western partners including the United States and France... are serving to undermine the idea of calling a conference," Russian media quoted Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov as saying on Tuesday.
on Tuesday urged his colleagues not to use the memo to undermine the Mueller probe, calling it "a completely separate matter".
Our current campaign finance laws, however, now enable companies, individuals, and labor unions to channel contributions to political campaigns in ways that directly undermine the U.S. Supreme Court's call for greater transparency and disclosure in its 2010 "Citizens United" ruling.
North Korea has repeatedly tried hard to undermine the Korean War armistice, calling instead for a peace treaty with the United States.
H1 executives counter-sued for $250 million, accusing BamBrogan of launching a smear campaign and claiming he and the other employees had conspired to undermine the work being done, calling them a "gang of four".
