Sentence examples for undermining the army from inspiring English sources

If removing an army chief, as the prime minister was constitutionally and legally empowered to do, constitutes undermining the army, would-be military dictators everywhere will be filled with cheer.As for institutional collapse, it did not begin with Mr Sharif and will not end with him.

Pakistani Taliban militants have killed dozens of ISI employees since 2007, undermining the army's authority.

Privately, military sources accused the PML-N of deliberately trying to undermine the army.

"Should we undermine the army and give the whole country to Hezbollah?" said Paul Salem, the director of the Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut.

In October, the editors-in-chief of major newspapers issued a statement pledging to support the state and to reject attempts to undermine the army, police and judiciary.

So stinging was his portrayal of the school's macho, bullying ethos that several Peruvian generals charged the book with being the product of a "degenerate mind", who had been paid by Ecuador to undermine the army's prestige.

Over the years, scores of stealthy Islamists have been identified and unceremoniously booted out for trying to proselytize fellow soldiers and generally undermine the army's values.

The American media thought otherwise and began to debunk this theory, pointing out that the Ngô family constantly sought to undermine the army, and that Madame Nhu's joy over the events suggested the family had neither ceded power nor had their hands forced by the military.

With each new revelation that taints the armed forces, ever more Turks fret that the army may be undermining the state.This week General Ilker Basbug, the chief of the general staff, admitted that the raids on the Special Forces Command were carried out within the law.

In the last press release posted on their website, they warned politicians against "using the medium of political campaign to undermine [the army's] system".

But he will abandon him if he thinks Mr. Musharraf's actions are significantly undermining the standing of the Pakistani army.