"undermine the point" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It means to weaken or discredit someone's argument, idea, or statement. Example: The new evidence presented by the defense lawyer completely undermined the prosecution's point and caused the jury to doubt the defendant's guilt.
The words were clumsy, attempting to compliment Rapinoe but undermining the point with loaded words like "hijack".
Stores in different countries stock very different goods, which undermines the point of global sourcing and complicates relations between local and global managers of both the retailer and its supplier.Local taste crucially affects the way retailers sell their goods too.
That amendment, decried by other politicians and activists as 'transphobic,' undermined the point of the bill, to ensure that trans people could use facilities according to their chosen gender.
While it is possible to cycle in either extreme, it's not prudent and you'll barely enjoy the experience, thereby undermining the point of the journey.
Though Mr. Conrad -- the author of earlier books like "Imagining America" and "Modern Times, Modern Places" -- often undermines the points he wants to make with pretentious academic posturing, he demonstrates a thoroughgoing knowledge of Hitchcock's films and manages in these pages to do a first-rate job of situating the director's work in the context of modernist, post-World War I art.
If judges were able to rewrite them it would undermine the whole point of an elected parliament.
A nagging feeling that the contrast between the manufactured controversy and the act of remembrance threatens to undermine the entire point?
Those who are now trying to undermine the principle point at China, whose per capita emissions are only now catching up with the EU average, while forgetting that it is our consumer demand for their products that is playing a large part in fuelling this rise – so called 'outsourced emissions'.
This view would undermine the whole point of the republican conception of political liberty.
