Sentence examples for undermine the power from inspiring English sources

Several powerful House and Senate members have said the administration was trying to undermine the power of the purse granted to Congress by the Constitution.

He sought to undermine the power of the dominant Liberals but failed.

Fractures in the insurgency could undermine the power of the clerics.

The sheer number of smartphone patents and the speed of innovation in product development undermine the power of the patents.

Many are raising alarms that these untested offerings will limit or undermine the power of a university degree.

In the meantime, these lawmakers — politicians of various ideological stripes — have united to undermine the power of the judiciary.

But Catholic and Protestant leaders alike condemned the violence and vowed not to let it undermine the power-sharing government that has been in place since 2007.

The previous British government of Prime Minister Gordon Brown had delayed publication of the report until after the May 6 general election, fearing that the findings might stir political passions during the campaign and undermine the power-sharing government established in Belfast under the Good Friday agreement.

This was symptomatic of one of the large social debates throughout the year: was Germany, like many other Western democracies, moving toward a political climate in which the executive would increasingly usurp and undermine the powers of the legislature?

In the Palacio report we read that the subsidiarity principle is a legally binding rule and to some degree a warning is given that it must not undermine the powers which the Community has been given by the Treaties.

Unfortunately the badly misconceived, claustrophobic installation undermines the power of the sculptures.