Sentence examples for undermining plans from inspiring English sources

Prices tend to increase when the economic outlook is brighter — potentially creating headaches for consumers and undermining plans by businesses for expansion.

But Mr. Greenspan has also signaled he is worried that a fiscal stimulus package could become an excuse to abandon fiscal discipline, undermining plans to pay down most of the $3.3 trillion national debt over the next decade.

Ms. Fuller featured a photograph of the actress Catherine Zeta-Jones on the June cover without the cooperation of Ms. Zeta-Jones' public relations managers, thereby undermining plans by Vogue's editor in chief, Ms. Wintour, for that magazine's July cover, also featuring Ms. Zeta-Jones.

The movement was only few millimetres an hour, but it raised fears the ship would slip further, undermining plans to pump some 2,400 tonnes of fuel out of its tanks.

Political stability and the end of the civil war have improved aid flows and economic activity has increased, but underlying weaknesses - a high poverty rate, poor education rates, a weak legal system, a poor transportation network, overburdened utilities, and low administrative capacity - risk undermining planned economic reforms.

While the popularity of the Early Excellence approach has undermined plans for a national boycott proposed by some teaching unions, the DfE is concerned that it and teacher-led KS1 assessments may not be robust enough to measure progress.

The city officials also publicly invited the F.B.I. to investigate the department -- an invitation that Daniel J. French, then the United States attorney for the Northern District, later said undermined plans for an undercover investigation.

Although the group has not reached consensus on how to come up with more housing subsidies, one thing is clear: With the recession, budget cuts and downturns in local construction and real estate industries, there may be so many interests competing for pieces of a potential housing trust fund that they could undermine plans to pass a ballot measure to pay for it.

Environmentalists and the gas-and-oil industry do not agree on much, but in New York they see eye-to-eye on one thing: both believe that cuts to the state environmental agency's staff will undermine plans for natural gas drilling in the Marcellus Shale, a controversial but potentially huge source of new revenue for the cash-strapped state.

This is a kind of economic co-operation agreement originally proposed by Mr Chavez in a bid to undermine plans for a hemispheric Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA).

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