The result was a descent back into recession, which has in turn worsened budget balance, undermining the process of fiscal consolidation.
Australia's foreign affairs minister, Julie Bishop, was more forthright in assessing the role of Moscow, saying she feared that Russia was "actively undermining" the process of securing safe access amid reports that the remains of up to 80 victims may still be in the war-torn area.
Fear of political consequences, though, have begun to undermine the process of actually getting anything done.
He should recognize that threats undermine the process of reconciliation and confidence-building on which further progress in Northern Ireland depends.
Helen Jones, the chair of the petitions committee, said that those signatures discovered to be fake would be "removed" and said such fraud "undermines the process of parliamentary democracy".
At the time, officials compared the uprisings to the fall of the Berlin Wall, and said that Western leaders' main aim was to ensure that instability did not undermine the process of political reform.
Comparing the uprisings that are sweeping the region to the fall of the Berlin Wall, which eventually paved the way for a historic shift to democracy in Central and Eastern Europe, the group said in a communiqu?hat its aim was "to ensure that instability does not undermine the process of political reform".
Andrew Lansley, the health secretary, said ministers had taken the "exceptional" step of opting against disclosure – a tactic used only three times before in the previous decade – because releasing it would undermine the process of policy-making by reducing the quality of advice civil servants gave governments in future.
The present study assessed the extent to which the introduction of non-invasive prenatal diagnosis (NIPD) of Down's syndrome may undermine the process of making informed choices to undergo prenatal testing or screening for Down's syndrome by altering the quality and quantity of pre-test counselling.
He firmly believed that ignorance undermined the process of democracy and that ignorance of history, in particular, could have dangerous political consequences.
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