Sentence examples for undermining states from inspiring English sources

On balance, though, conflict tends to do more harm than good to biodiversity, destroying habitats and undermining states' efforts to protect other creatures.

"This weak proposal risks undermining states' duty to protect human rights and could even be redundant," Sophia Pickles, a spokeswoman for the campaigning group Global Witness told EurActiv.

It considers Hezbollah's arsenal as a factor undermining state monopoly over legitimate violence.

Aparat has also created another website, Filimo, which screens Iranian and foreign movies, a further means of undermining state television.

Mr Aboud was accused of "undermining state security, national unity and the stability and good functioning of [its] institutions"; a criminal investigation was ordered.

"The jury members retained all the charges against her, including disturbing the peace, forming and organising armed gangs and undermining state security.

He argued that working towards online voting is essential, otherwise private polls run by companies and pressure groups will start undermining state-run elections.

This was ostensibly to stop them from undermining state security — which could be anything deemed a threat to the ruling Communist Party.

Iran's enemies argue that these activities increase instability in the region by undermining state structures and empowering militias that operate above the law.

In particular, concerns arose that the European Court of Justice ("ECJ) was undermining state-level social regimes via an activist jurisprudence that tended towards negative integration by favoring Community-wide economic rights over state-level social protections.

The accusations raised an interesting legal paradox: as far as the prosecution was concerned, if the organisation could be deemed to be undermining state policy it followed that torture itself must be state policy.