It appeared that Kirchner and Van Konijnenburg-Van Cittert did not realize that they had undermined the ground for the ginkgoalean affinity of the fossil and uncritically accepted the previous conclusion as true [ 24].
It is to undermine the grounds of the Palestinian reconciliation by insisting that one of its members, Hamas, remains a terrorist organization.
Hoggart was falsely accused of being opposed to such a range, and many of the newspapers, whose investments in ITV were considerable, targeted him as a puritan interested only in the high ground, whereas he was in fact a puritan in the dissenting tradition – ie both determined to beat and determined to undermine the high ground.
The purpose of this criticism is to undermine the higher ground biologists claim in debating creationists, and to reframe the debate from being between science (evolution) and religion (creationism) to being between two equally religious beliefs – or even to argue that evolution is religious while intelligent design is not.
They can damage the temples in several ways -- by falling and smashing fragile structures, by burrowing among the stones and forcing them apart, by swaying in the wind and weakening the buildings or by sending roots along the ground and undermining the walls.
The rising toll from coalition bombs is alienating Syrians on the ground and risks undermining the fight against the extremists, critics say.
I analyze a strain of literary works that trouble ideas of "form" in two different but intimately connected ways: a critique of literary form that rejects linear narratives, centralized human characters, and stable referential frameworks; and a critique of bodily form that undermines the ontological grounds of species difference.
In a country where alcoholism already is rampant, a culture of soaring drug addiction is gaining ground, further undermining the basic health of the nation.
In 2017, the United States backed away from its long-standing leadership role in the world, reducing its commitment to seek common ground and undermining the overall effort toward solving pressing global governance challenges.
In the face of an effective act of nonviolent resistance, the oppressor faces two unappetizing choices: concede ground, thereby undermining the image of absolute power the oppressor wants to project, and therefore encouraging further resistance; or resist with force, thereby projecting the image of "brutes," and therefore encouraging further resistance.
