In the main he undermines with a hint of surprise, a surge of protectiveness.
"Equality of arms" is an important principle at the bar, as well as a lucrative form of closed shop, which Chris Grayling is undermining with a 30% cut in the VHCC budget.
Therefore, surgeons should avoid creating the "pocket" with manual techniques (e.g., undermining with a finger) and instead should perform the dissection of the pocket with an electrocoagulater using a Colorado needle.
The state machinery itself is penetrated and undermined, with not a single politician or general urging change.
Bourgeois hypocrisy is exposed and undermined with the precise, step-by-step thoroughness of a conscientious, account-keeping clerk.
A European alliance, decades in the making, could be undermined with no obvious economic or political benefits in exchange.
His position is undermined with every passing hour.
PAGE 10 The Hidden Revolution Students in Serbia, backed by American money and training, undermined Slobodan Milosevic with a clever campaign of nonviolence.
Rooney scored the opener with fine accomplishment – and was at his sharpest when he played in the unstoppable warhorse Frank Lampard for the restoration of England's lead – but it was Wilshere who had undermined Brazil with a through ball of devastating simplicity.
