Sentence examples for undermine this assumption from inspiring English sources

Time-dependent processes that influence transmission, like acquired immunity in the relative or declining passive immunity in the newborn, undermine this assumption.

The results of the BCG revaccination trial show that non-vaccine factors might undermine this assumption, and the authors conclude correctly that trials should examine the impact of vaccines on survival.

The astonishingly high degree of chromosomal mosaicism in cleavage stage embryos undermines this assumption.

"These early programmes undermine the assumption that married women were nearly all housewives back in the 1950s and 60s.

To begin with, they undermine the assumption that innovations self-disseminate, or that central guidance is the only or best way to encourage them.

Alongside the excellent work of the Birthplace Research Programme at Oxford University's National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit, the findings undermine the assumption that care must be delivered through ever more restrictive guidelines and policies to ensure that it is safe.

He may then be seen as trying to undermine the assumption that (a) and (b) are correct by throwing into doubt our entitlement to (c).

These differences undermine the assumption that underlies the Marcus cross-relation.

Furthermore, the shortened AUDIT models are not independent of the AUDIT-10, and thus undermine the assumption of independence for assessing linear regression (variance explained).

Zakharov and Hellmann [ 22] suggested that these differences could allow local adaptation of northern populations, possibly to local climatic conditions, and that these local adaptations could undermine the assumption that northern populations will increase under climate warming.

Rorty's aim in PMN is to undermine the assumptions in light of which this double legitimation project makes sense.