Indeed, if egregious practices such as female genital mutilation and female confinement violate capabilities for life, nutrition and bodily integrity, all inequalities based on gender hierarchies, in Nussbaum's view, undermine capabilities for self-respect and emotional development that are part of human functioning.
The outflow of rural labor has changed the family structure and increased the number of nuclear families.5 Children are separated from their elderly parents when they stay in the city after graduating from the university or when they take a job elsewhere, and this also undermines sons' capability and willingness to provide care for their parents (Zhu and Xu 1992).
But the city's elite have been loathe to change it, no matter how much it undermines the capability of law enforcement over the urban landscape as a whole.
Mr Otter said: "HMIC is concerned that the inconsistencies we found in our review may seriously undermine the capability of the HET's processes to determine whether the force used in killings during the Troubles was justified in state involvement cases, therefore potentially preventing the identification and punishment of those responsible.
There is talk of the new Congress, with its new majority, working to either undermine the capability of the FCC to enforce net neutrality, or perhaps even pass a new legal foundation for it to use, allowing it to avoid trying to bend Title II of the Communications Act to its will.
Without opening their mouths, they have immediately undermined their capability, leadership quality, confidence, and credibility.
In doing so, the TPP agreement could undermine consumers' capability to use purchasing power as a political tool to address issues related to social, economic, and environmental inequality.
But I objected strongly to the Military Commissions Act that was drafted by the Bush Administration and passed by Congress because it failed to establish a legitimate legal framework and undermined our capability to ensure swift and certain justice against those detainees that we were holding at the time.
But revealing the evidence may not be in the national interest and undermine future capabilities to monitor Russia's next attack on the nation".
The intelligence agencies in the UK and the US claim that the Edward Snowden revelations in 2013 about the scale of bulk data collection undermined their capabilities.
