The forces of civilisation and education are very slowly discrediting this stone-age approach to life and dismantling the power imbalance that has grown around it.
It becomes easy for an agent provocateur to become a loud voice in a movement and very, very difficult to discredit him once established.
The fact that there were no articles, besides that very bad article discrediting it, was very alarming.
The fact that there were no articles, beside that very bad article discrediting it, was very alarming.
Sadly, doing so discredited the very meaning of the word democracy in the eyes of many Russians.
"The Berlin-Brussels-Frankfurt consensus on austerity that Monti's government [pursued] has discredited the very reforms that are needed to boost the Italian economy".
Or perhaps the Bush administration's effort to repackage the immensely unpopular war in Iraq as a Wilsonian crusade to free a subject people has discredited the very principle of humanitarian intervention.
As to game formalism, although philosophers may accuse mathematicians of a tendency to lapse into this discredited position, very few philosophers advance views resembling the game formalists.
That kind of relies on a very outmoded, and frankly discredited, view of how people become dependent on drugs".
