Sentence examples for undermining the facts from inspiring English sources

In contrast, wild cards are events that cannot be predicted or fully anticipated, but at the same time, have the potential to "alter the international system by their reversal of significant trends, thereby undermining the facts upon which future planning is built" [48].

Looking at Dubai or Shanghai or Singapore as metaphors not only undermines the fact that we're a democracy but it also undermines the fact that the poor even exist in our cities.

The stereotype of Cambridge students as 'swots' is arbitrary and undermines the fact the student body is highly interested in the arts.

Dangerfield adds: "It sometimes threatens to undermine the fact that we're a pop band and we like to make songs, because it sounds like I don't think we're very good at censoring ourselves.

It has come out during a peak of awareness about the prevalence of assaults against women, but that should not undermine the fact that this film was, for Khan, the work of twenty years.

"That these are ideas being generated by kids doesn't undermine the fact that they are bright ideas that have merit," said William McKoy, president of the Board of Education, who was elected to the Paterson City Council last week on a platform promoting Paterson as the City of Learning.

"I think there is a little bit of 'oh this is politically motivated' but actually this undermines the fact that people do take offence," she said.

Our findings undermine the fact that critically ill patients with diarrhea should be managed in exactly the same way as patients on the normal ward to reduce the number of unnecessary stool cultures.

Later in his evidence session, Hughes also touched on this, noting: "We should not do anything to undermine the fact that security and privacy are a continuum of the same thing.

We had to walk a fine line between too great an informality, which would undermine the fact that he was seeking to promote futures work as a valid and sophisticated tool for thinking about alternative futures for the region, and an authoritative delivery which would stifle local imaginations and stymie his attempts to empower those attending the workshop.

And yet, this cannot undermine the fact that this country voted for a black president -- twice!