Sentence examples for undermining events from inspiring English sources

"Yet today, profiteers are able to co-opt charity events to line their own pockets — creating false ticket shortages for consumers and undermining events meant to help those in need.

The Obama effect and its slow evolutionary engagement with both Syria and Iran reduces the level of threat felt in Tehran and in particular Damascus, leading the regimes less inclined to undermine events in Lebanon.

By banking this trust in a May election, Mr Blair can be reasonably sure that there is too little time for either half of his claim to be undermined by events.

But victory for the hard-liners, for Ayatollah Yazdi's vision of a state run exclusively by a clerical elite, is both ascendant and at the same time undermined by events.

They have pointed to Mr. Koch, who was extremely popular during his first two terms as mayor, but found his standing undermined by events and scandals in his third.

"Our gun strategy is only as strong as it is comprehensive, and it is constantly being undermined by events and occurrences happening outside the city — gun shows in surrounding counties, weak gun laws in neighboring states like Indiana and the inability to track purchasing," Mr. Emanuel said.

Mr Lowman added that the temporary concession could open the door for the big retail lobby to press for all sorts of exemptions for other events, "undermining the whole principle" of Sunday trading restrictions.

The fun thing about this list of "recent events" undermining the idea that we live in a safer world is that the US government has had a direct role in creating most of these dangerous situations.

But now the protesters are talking about infiltrating the convention to undermine the event itself.

Coca-Cola couriered its party invitations from Washington, an extravagance that rather undermined the event's theme, "a celebration sustainable communities".

"We were thinking that having them sell their souls over to Satan would keep away some of the more radical superstitious people who would try to undermine the event," Mesner said.