Sentence examples for undermine the stance from inspiring English sources

"Feminism is fairly unpopular, so I should also point out, I'm not, like, a buy-my-own-drinks kind of feminist," she says, seeming to undermine the stance she's just taken.

Finch's comments in favour of the modernist appearance of Olympic Park architecture appear to undermine the neutral stance he advocated last year when asked about a proposal by Prince Charles's Foundation for the Built Environment to take on some of the design review role now undertaken by the Design Council.

Promotion of human rights in China by American-supported nongovernmental organizations is viewed as an effort to "Westernize" the country and undermine the Communist Party, a stance the party will not stand for, he says.

Some business leaders and investors have clearly been hoping that Labor's landslide victory on June 7 would so undermine the anti-euro stance of the Conservative opposition that Britain would move quickly to adopt the euro.

In a joint statement, they urged greater financial transparency in European Union markets, while at the same time inveighing against foreign governments whose own stances undermine the viability and competitiveness of European businesses.

It's a project completely foreign to "solution-oriented" liberals, quick to find nuance and compromise without seeing how those stances can undermine the continued basis for centre-left politics.

It's a project completely foreign to "solution-oriented" liberals, quick to find nuance and compromise without seeing how those stances can undermine the continued basis for center-left politics.

The Bundesrat, or upper house of Parliament, voted to ban the extreme-right National Democratic Party for trying to undermine the country's constitutional order with its "anti-Semitic, racist and xenophobic stance".

Since then, Holbrooke has maintained a detached public stance, in order not to antagonize America's partner in Kabul and undermine the Afghan government's standing.

Lewis has backed the regions' stance and says the money on offer to targeted Welsh players could undermine the sport's viability.

This stance is particularly ironic for a society that has at many points actually worked to undermine the bilingualism of the Latinx community.