"There's no way this helps Mueller," Cotter said, adding that Cohen's testimony risked undermining statements he's already given to the special counsel.
You'll give people an opportunity to weigh in later, but don't start off by qualifying or undermining your statements with defeating statements like: "This might be wrong, but…" Or, "I'm not sure if you'll agree, however…" Or, worse yet, "I know I haven't been here very long, but I think we should…" Those statements are completely and utterly damning.
The affair is thus a public-relations victory for an ongoing right-wing campaign to undermine the statement.
This would not undermine his statement that he always pays tax on his income and non-dom status had "delivered very few benefits".
The CPS said: "At no point during the investigation was the custody sergeant challenged on his memory or made aware of the relevant section of CCTV which undermined his statement.
One might argue that undermines his statement, but in any case, there are numerous instances of Trump suggesting that the Russian intervention in the election was a hoax ginned up by Democrats.
I'm tempted to write that it's almost as memorable for its imagery as its ideas, although the fact that I'd forgotten about the existence of the half-alive hound that sniffs out wrong thinkers and injects death into them rather undermines that statement.
"By doing them at the time of the strike, [these lectures are] an overtly political statement undermining the power of the strike action.
Neither David Gold nor David Sullivan have yet to make any kind of public statement undermining their manager in the way they did last season when the rookie Gianfranco Zola was in the midst of what proved to be a successful fight against relegation.
20 September: North Korea says it will not scrap its nuclear programme until it is given a civilian nuclear reactor, undermining the joint statement and throwing further talks into doubt.
As Germany's top financial regulator, Hufeld's comments hold considerable weight and undermine recent statements from the LSE and Deutsche Börse that the deal will go ahead as planned.
