The experienced-based common sense logic of location ("we ate the same thing there without becoming diabetic"), social context ("my family won't change what they eat"), and observed risks of hypoglycemia undermined the acceptance of nutritional information and healthy eating.
With the potential to undermine public acceptance of global warming, and an international climate change conference about to kick off in Copenhagen, a strong response was urgently needed.
Lest the Japanese reactor crisis serve to undermine the acceptance of expanding the use of nuclear power in our nation, consider the staggering costs in health, quality of life and loss of life experienced in the pursuit of fossil fuels.
"Climate of Doubt," a "Frontline" documentary that airs Tuesday night on PBS, explores how a movement mobilized to undermine public acceptance of the scientific consensus on global warming and on how human activity contributes to climate change.
Having failed to undermine public acceptance of climate science or turn us against renewable energy, the high-carbon lobby wants to ensure that people have no appetite for the journey to a low-carbon society.
Like Strauss-Kahn, he has often been depicted as a seducer, but the description has not been meant as a compliment: he has long been accused of casting a dangerous spell on younger members of France's Muslim population, thereby undermining their acceptance of French norms, particularly those pertaining to secularism, gender, and sexuality.
And for us to have faith in the future, it must be able to remain uncertain, irreducible to any program or machine which can undermine the acceptance of the other, the host and in fine hospitality.
Additionally undermining the acceptance of evolutionary theory might be one's general attitudes toward the scientific enterprise and its methods (Rutledge and Warden 1999), especially as the enterprise is associated with evolution (Lombrozo et al. 2008; Downie and Barron 2000; Scott 2004).
In those years, The American Israelite became known for its very strong stance against the new Zionism movement, calling it in 1902 a "pernicious agitation" that would undermine the acceptance of Jews in the countries where they currently resided.
If the proportion of false positive cases requiring additional tests that are identified in screening laboratories rises excessively, this could undermine the acceptance of such testing by both the parental and medical communities, as well as potentially diminish the cost benefit of additional testing.
