We don't have to do what we see others doing, but it will take an active effort to control our urge to undermine others.
He suspected that his territory was the collective fascination with image itself rather than the conceptual urge to undermine that fascination.
A good deal of modern biography, especially when the subject is a major literary figure, is driven by the urge to undermine the writer's artistic achievement by exposing the previously unknown details of his or her private life.
The president of the American Bar Association, Carolyn Lamm, urged "those who would undermine clinical law school programs to step back and remember that the rule of law cannot survive if pressure prevents lawyers from fulfilling their responsibilities to their clients".
As unions representing thousands of journalists, writers, actors, musicians and technicians who have worked for or been trained by the BBC, we urge ministers not to undermine its historic mission to educate, inform and entertain (BBC may have to share licence fee with rivals, 9 May).
They urged the administration not to undermine the law.
Gore campaign officials, nervous that the misgivings of some Democrats could undermine their effort, urged Democrats to unite behind the vice president -- and prevent open defections.
A couple of weeks ago, when Hill and Bill mentioned the possibility of a joint ticket, it was an attempt to undermine Obama and urge voters and superdelegates to put Hillary on top; the implication was that this was the only way Democrats could have both their stars, and besides, it was her turn.
The Chechen leader of the Caucasus Emirate, Doku Umarov, had ordered a halt to attacks on civilian targets in 2012, but he rescinded that order in July and urged his followers to try to undermine the Olympics.
As Bill Kristol put it, Obama's urge to wait "would precisely undermine Israel's ability to determine her fate".
