Sentence examples for undermine the effect from inspiring English sources

She is successful to a degree, but the tiles themselves somewhat undermine the effect.

Perhaps no one has done more to undermine the effect of forced confessions than Ebrahim Nabavi, an exiled Iranian satirist who has released a parody confession video.

Tiny things undermine the effect here – the irrelevant nautical associations of crows' nests; the ugly improbability of a bruised, "monstrous", "blackish purple moon" (the translators have chosen the wrong dictionary alternatives between enormous and monstrous, and crimson and purple).

Nothing can so undermine the effect of that expectant opening movement as continual coughing of a type heard at those American performances (and perhaps more surprisingly, on a Russian Disc release of a performance conducted by Yevgeny Mravinsky in Leningrad in 1957, four days after the work's premiere in Moscow).

However, due to its mode of action, this value may undermine the effect of B. bassiana.

What is more, 687 studies confirming a null-hypothesis would be required to undermine the effect size.

Cruciferous vegetables aid the body to undermine the effects of toxins and cancer.

However, he thought that when it came to Marx's writings, the Hegelian "speculative form … tiresomely intrudes on the content of some parts of the work to the disadvantage of its effectiveness" and undermines the effect of the "astounding" display of detailed empirical evidence (Lange 1894a, 248).

Mr. Obama said the talk of war was driving up oil prices and undermining the effect of the sanctions on Iran.

As a young man, he sang with a degree of self-consciousness and uncertainty that sometimes undermined the effect of a song.

This undermines the effect of the Brady law, which requires background checks on handgun buyers, but only from licensed dealers, says a study published this month in the Journal of the American Medical Association.