Sentence examples for undermining the power of from inspiring English sources

"He cannot change too much without undermining the power of his original statement," she wrote.

Now modernity is undermining the power of the latter to distort public debate.

By undermining the power of the aristocracy he weakened the empire's defenses and undid much of Manuel's work.

"By doing them at the time of the strike, [these lectures are] an overtly political statement undermining the power of the strike action.

Defenders of "wifebeater" say women use it ironically, just as some gay men and lesbians have appropriated "queer," undermining the power of a slur to wound them.

The National Assembly granted President Hugo Chávez broad powers on Friday to enact laws by decree, undermining the power of a new Congress that takes office next month with a bigger opposition bloc.

One has only to look at the fracas in North Carolina, where the outgoing Republican governor and his Republican legislature are undermining the powers of the new governor, to see how effective the Koch network has been.

Several powerful House and Senate members have said the administration was trying to undermine the power of the purse granted to Congress by the Constitution.

Unfortunately the badly misconceived, claustrophobic installation undermines the power of the sculptures.

Fractures in the insurgency could undermine the power of the clerics.

He sought to undermine the power of the dominant Liberals but failed.