Sentence examples for undermining the position of from inspiring English sources

"We feel Saudi Arabia is playing a bully role in undermining the position of other Arab countries," Hmaidan said.

It was credited with undermining the position of then chief executive Bob Ayling, who resigned in 2000.

He has written an open letter to the Saudi oil minister, Ali al-Naimi, saying that fracking was undermining the position of OPEC.

In 1996, China fired missiles into waters off Taiwan to intimidate voters; the effort failed, however, by undermining the position of politicians seeking reconciliation.

MOSCOW, Nov. 23 — Russian prosecutors charged a deputy finance minister who was the country's chief sovereign debt negotiator on Friday with conspiring to embezzle $43.4 million in a politically tinged case seen as undermining the position of liberals in the Russian government.

"It risks undermining the position of national governments, it risks undermining the power of national parliaments and it hands new power to the European Parliament".

Or is the state department's foregrounding of the issue of anti-Americanism a means of providing hard evidence to support the Powell line and undermining the positions of the hawks to whom Bush listens most closely?

By this reasoning, the two parties have each sought to squeeze out of Mr. Greenspan a blessing for their positions, or to lead him into undermining the positions of their political opponents.

General economic conditions began to undermine the position of the bakufu vassals.

Productivity improvements eliminated many middle-skilled American jobs just as emerging-market industrialisation undermined the position of low-skilled workers.

The political disruption caused by Ivan's oprichnina further undermined the position of the service class and led to the looting of Novgorod and other towns.