Sentence examples for undermining the foundations from inspiring English sources

Found guilty of undermining the foundations of Islam, he was packed off to prison for five years.

"The Federal Reserve offered few warnings of the forces undermining the foundations of our markets," Mr. Bachus said on Thursday.

She and McDonnell plan to press home the idea that many of this latest round of cuts will amount to a false economy – saving pennies in the short term but undermining the foundations of growth, and thus ultimately self-defeating.

Driver ants, the African kind of army ants, bivouac underground in such numbers that they once forced an entire human city of a hundred thousand to evacuate by undermining the foundations of the houses with their tunnels.

Medinsky has been an eager contributor to the Kremlin's new conservatism, and, in mid-January, his ministry said that it had prepared a resolution (which did not mention "Leviathan") that would ban from public distribution films believed to be "defiling the national culture, creating a threat to national unity and undermining the foundations of the constitutional order".

One of the most dangerous ideas undermining the foundations of this repubic today is the belief that an American woman can deck herself out in the colors of the rainbow with impunity but that an American man who shows any desire to get a little color into his ensemble is lacking in virility.

Corruption is undermining the foundation of the state.

While the reactionaries were solemnly proclaiming the sanctity of traditional institutions, economic change was undermining the foundation of those institutions.

In the television and print campaign, created by Saatchi & Saatchi, tax evaders are described as parasites that live at the expense of others, undermining the foundation of the social state.

The currency has fallen about 5 percent this year against the dollar amid fears that Italy, Portugal and Spain could follow Greece into market disfavor, possibly undermining the foundation of the 16-nation currency.

It is this trend that is most worrying, campaigners claim, because it is dragging down wages and undermining the foundation of modern capitalism: a fair day's wage for a fair day's work.