Sentence examples for undermining the connection from inspiring English sources

But the Vonage model is even more disruptive, further undermining the connection between specific area codes and particular places.

After an acquittal in an 1846 murder case where anti-death penalty sentiment was thought to have a role, Briggs, seeking to undercut the anti-death penalty lobby, proposed eliminating the penalty for all crimes except murder, but expressed concern that more such acquittals by sympathetic juries would undermine the connection between crime and punishment.

This effort included industry personnel designing and supervising studies that undermined the connection between SHS and lung cancer (Lee 1995) and contested the conclusion that there were substantial levels of toxicants in airliners where smoking was allowed (Malmfors et al. 1989).

The volatility is undermining the profession".

Perhaps overly clever metaphor does poison the plot... does undermine the reader's connection to character.

How to fix this is not obvious, but for me the connection between the TIRF results and the Brownian dynamics was too tenuous, and for me this weak connection undermined the thrust of their interpretation.

But political watchdogs contend that the mere appearance of a connection undermines the public trust.

The Bush administration's famous lack of respect for "reality-based" politics further undermined the Republican electorate's connection with truth.

Falk felt that virtual reality undermined the show's "strong connection to reality", and suggested that after so many dangerous incidents Dr. Quest would have turned the system off.

Such close connections, he said, further undermine the Supreme Court's rationale in Citizens United that independent groups could raise unlimited sums from nearly any source without the appearance of corruption.

Mr Richter undermines the natural intimacy of drawing that direct and vital connection between pencil and paper by employing some odd and cerebral rules.