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Both decisions were unpopular among their domestic publics: American businessmen complained that their right to a monopoly on regional trade was being undermined, while the Canadian public demanded action against the American miners.

When the U-boat campaign failed, the German government's authority was further undermined, while in the Habsburg empire nationalist separatism was inflamed by the rhetoric of Wilson's Fourteen Points.

It had become "elderly and haggard", hostage to a uniform economic model that undermined democracy while the centrality of human rights was becoming confused with and supplanted by individualistic narcissism.

There were fears within the Labour party that this new, militant trade unionism would undermine government, while the security services believed the unions were threatening to undermine the system as a whole, and had leftwing leaders' phones tapped.

To Donald Trump it is a "hoax" propagated by the Chinese to undermine the US while the rest of the world rolls around laughing.

He argues that Mr. Clinton's embrace of Israeli leaders, while well intentioned, undermined the ability of the United States to seal a deal with the Palestinians.

The Obama administration suspended $200,000 worth of military aid, but only under a legislative requirement, all the while undermining efforts at the United Nations to denounce Rwanda's role in the crisis.

Instead, a clan-based election system shut out ordinary voters, while electoral abuses undermined the credibility of the vote.

The court's decision confirms that businesses cannot simply pay lip service to the law while undermining the rights of the musicians, artists and writers that create popular music..".

He matches the accuracy of the machines around him while undermining the predictability of the cycles.

The Jeff is Stelling, described by Cairns as "masterful" in poking gentle fun at Kamara "while never undermining the authority of the programme".