Sentence examples for undermined over from inspiring English sources

And while a natural phenomenon is the immediate cause, however, Africa's food security has been undermined over recent decades by the rise of monocropping – the planting of single-crop tracts across vast swathes of scarce arable land.

Martin O'Neill is to turn down the chance to return to club management with West Ham United, leaving Avram Grant, whose position appeared critically undermined over recent weeks, expected to be asked to continue in the role at Upton Park until the end of the season.

Although everyone as a practical matter accepts "reality as given" -- the world presented by the five senses -- that common-sense version of the world was radically undermined over a century ago with the advent of relativity and quantum theory.

The key right that American workers won in the Wagner Act (1935 --the 1935 --the 1935 --theo a union without adverightmploymentocorganizeces--has already been underminto over the decades by right-wing junion, a sluggish NLRB, and pathetically withoutmedies for the thousadverse workemploymenttually get fired every year for trying to organize.

Engineers, never really able to gain guild status anywhere, now find their collective position further undermined by over-supply.The explanation may lie in a changed relationship between the professions and government.

¤ empowering the Government Offices in managing land supply at the level of the city-region, so that urban regeneration objectives in inner urban areas are not undermined by over-development on greenfield sites in more prosperous outer areas.

"I welcome the fact that he is so engaged in matters of culture and public policy more broadly," says Tessa Jowell, a minister under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, "and he, and I am sure any other minister he dealt with, were absolutely clear about the status of his approach which was not in any way intended to undermine or over-ride the normal process of policy determination".

"Really, the recession in many ways undermined action over the past five or six years," Stern said.

Surely there would be no fitter way to observe today's grim anniversary than to stand up for the principles Guantánamo has undermined for over a century.

One of his aims was clearly to show he has reasserted his grip on power, which was undermined just over a year ago during the biggest street protests since he first rose to power.

Overall, participants used the photographs to illustrate how they were similar or different to their mothers, or other female family member, as well as how their mothers either supported or undermined control over their children's food choices.