Sentence examples for undermine the end from inspiring English sources

For one thing, means to means to an end may actually undermine the end.

Such a strategy may actually undermine the end you seek.

He is irked by accusations that the sale of the £20m piece of art bequeathed to the borough by the artist and currently on loan to the Yorkshire Sculpture Park will undermine the East End's cultural heritage.

That ought to comfort luxury executives worried that selling online might undermine the high-end appeal of their wares — and the high prices that come with such exclusivity.

Threats, killings, calumny, racist words and deeds, and consistent impugning the motives of leaders and people come easy, and they come with tactical political dividends, even as they undermine the strategic goal of ending the conflict.

He is unequivocal that to accept a salary is to undermine the authority of the end product.

Shayda Edwards Naficy, CAI director of the international water campaign, claims the funds rarely meet their development goals and, in the end, undermine the democratic control and governance of public water systems.

If this argument works, it has the piquant feature that 'the zombies that antiphysicalists think possible in the end undermine the arguments that allege to establish their possibility' (502. Chalmers offers brief replies in his 2003 20100, pp. 159 60).

11 weakness has undermined the high end of the Manhattan market more than the middle and lower ends.

Yet the compromises Foreman had to make to reach a wide audience did not in the end seriously undermine the book's scholarship, any more than putting the notes at the end of the book instead of at the foot of the page, or using them for the discussion of academic disputes, instead of the actual text, means the end of academic respectability.

But drawing more public attention to the civil grand jury report may only undermine the unions' position in the end.