Sentence examples for undermining potential from inspiring English sources

"A number of statements, unofficial and official, have indicated publicly that the administration thinks the case is weak, thus undermining potential settlement negotiations and reinforcing the perception that the government is not interested in seriously pursuing the case," Mr. Durbin said.

Few wildlife-derived benefits flow to pastoralists, while conservation restrictions constrain production and coping strategies, undermining potential for coexistence.

As the recently installed Somali executive and parliamentary branches of government are scrambling to prove their mettle to a very skeptical populace, what the West is doing is actively undermining potential for this poor country's political, economic and social progress.

Program design and implementation approaches less focused on strategies that ensure equal access to health services especially for MARA population and failed to address gender equity issues, thus undermining potential benefits the program could have generated.

Palestinians accused Israel of consistently carrying out raids at delicate moments to undermine potential political progress.

Some economists have argued that the crisis itself undermined potential by starving innovative companies of financing and driving some workers, whose skills have atrophied from long spells of unemployment, out of the labour force.

Last month, the lead company in the power line project, Xcel Energy, said that delays in the project — blamed on Mr. Bacon and his lawyers — had undermined potential development of solar power in Alamosa.

Asked if he had used McBride's services to undermine potential rivals in the race to succeed Brown as party leader, Balls said: "If I ever did, it didn't work very well, did it, because I didn't become the party leader.

· Santa has, over the years, acted to undermine potential successors, privately disparaging one of his nephews as "lazy," another as "not really committed to the whole Christmas thing," and yet another as "incapable of growing a beard of the appropriate size, if you know what I mean".

This may occur because discrete analyses miss changes following an intervention, analyses limited to the knee undermine potential mechanical trade-offs at other joints, or strengthening interventions not been designed based on biomechanical principles.

Critics worry that multiculturalism's focus on culture and identity diverts attention from or even actively undermines the struggle for economic justice, partly because identity-based politics may undermine potential multiracial, multiethnic class solidarity and partly because some multiculturalists tend to focus on cultural injustice without much attention to economic injustice.