Sentence examples for undermine the plan from inspiring English sources

Ever since, the Curia has connived to undermine the plan and draw power back to itself.

It said: Armed terrorist groups have continued to act in violation of the six-point plan, with a long chain of violations that undermine the plan.

The Palestinians accuse Israel of trying to undermine the plan with assassinations of militant leaders and almost daily raids into Palestinian towns.

Supporters of the approach taken by former President Bill Clinton said tonight that the administration's decision was intended to undermine the plan while allowing the White House to claim that its hands had been tied by the courts.

There are a host of development, zoning, and legal issues that could easily undermine the plan or delay it for so long that the High Line could become the West Side version of the Second Avenue Subway.

As his preaching against the sale of indulgences threatens to undermine the plan of the new pope, Leo X, to finance the rebuilding of St. Peter's Basilica through the sale of indulgences, he faces formidable adversaries in Brother Johann Tetzel (Alfred Molina), the pope's chief salesman of indulgences, and Girolamo Aleandro (Jonathan Firth), a cold Vatican emissary.

Moscow accuses outsiders of undermining the plan, which may be a veiled reference to Qatar and Saudi Arabia.

Or will we end up with a compromise like the one Congressional Democrats agreed to this year, legislation that assuages conservative objections at the cost of undermining the plan's effectiveness?

But what really undermined the plan was the discouraging attitude from members of neighborhood organizations and civic officials that opera was too specialized or, to put it bluntly, too elitist an art form to anchor an arts complex at ground zero.

That undermined the plan, Mattis said: "Literally, when the President said, 'We're going to reinforce,' he also said, 'They're coming out.' " Obama's foreign policy effectively relinquished the United States' role as the steward of the international order, Mattis told me, and that encouraged enemies.

IT'S only June, and already what a year it's been for travelers: volcanic ash clouds shutting down dozens of European airports; unrest in Thailand, Jamaica and Greece; an oil spill undermining the plans of vacationers bound for the Gulf of Mexico coast.