Sentence examples for undermines the effect from inspiring English sources
However, he thought that when it came to Marx's writings, the Hegelian "speculative form … tiresomely intrudes on the content of some parts of the work to the disadvantage of its effectiveness" and undermines the effect of the "astounding" display of detailed empirical evidence (Lange 1894a, 248).
After Gatsby is shot and killed, Nick's wistfully romantic aria ("Held by the West"), sung to the jaded Jordan, undermines the effect of Gatsby's long soliloquy, delivered just before his death.
This undermines the effect of the Brady law, which requires background checks on handgun buyers, but only from licensed dealers, says a study published this month in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
This suggests that KSR1 regulates p53 acetylation through DBC1, as depleting DBC1 undermines the effect of KSR1 on acetylated p53.
Perhaps more importantly, statistical analysis of separate biological pathways or distinct gene sets undermines the effect of pathway cross-talk behind disease development, in which multiple genetic variants from distinct molecular pathways show synergistic contribution to the disease phenotype.
She is successful to a degree, but the tiles themselves somewhat undermine the effect.
Mr. Obama said the talk of war was driving up oil prices and undermining the effect of the sanctions on Iran.
Perhaps no one has done more to undermine the effect of forced confessions than Ebrahim Nabavi, an exiled Iranian satirist who has released a parody confession video.
As a young man, he sang with a degree of self-consciousness and uncertainty that sometimes undermined the effect of a song.
Tiny things undermine the effect here – the irrelevant nautical associations of crows' nests; the ugly improbability of a bruised, "monstrous", "blackish purple moon" (the translators have chosen the wrong dictionary alternatives between enormous and monstrous, and crimson and purple).
To please foreign investors, who have been put off by a capricious and at times extortionate tax regime, he promised to end much-disliked retrospective taxes (though he undermined the effect with vague talk of a committee to oversee things).
