And while it's true "that many in the Arab world admire aspects of American life, U.S. policy in the region has increasingly undermined Arab attitudes toward America as a global model".
Tribal connections are not performance characteristics and therefore undermined a move toward a more performance-based and measurement oriented approach to management.
Empowering Sunni forces may undermine efforts toward national reconciliation, however.
Mr. Karzai also said the attack was an effort to undermine progress toward meaningful negotiations.
Ashton said bluntly that Israel had been undermining progress toward peace talks.
American officials worry that any significant Sunni boycott could deprive the election of legitimacy, undermining efforts toward reconciliation in the country.
"Such widespread transgression of safe limits suggests that biodiversity loss, if unchecked, will undermine efforts toward long-term sustainable development," the paper said.
As a result, we underestimated the regional importance of Libya before the West intervened; misunderstood Benghazi's importance in stabilizing postwar Libya; and left ourselves unprepared for the ability of terrorist groups to undermine advances toward civil authority there.
Putin praised the US's role in forging an interim deal to ease concerns about Iran's nuclear programme but said he hoped the blacklisting of additional Iranian companies under existing sanctions would not undermine progress toward a comprehensive agreement.
Deputy Defense Secretary Paul D. Wolfowitz, who is traveling in Europe, said the attack in Morocco was "not a surprise" and suggested that it was meant to undermine progress toward democracy in the Arab world, The Associated Press reported.
