If a young woman is inexperienced and taken advantage of – under the guise of being given support – that can be confidence-shattering and very undermining.
Even in an informal context, adding a modifier like "pretty" or "very" undermines the meaning of the word.
"The implication is that we have a President who has very seriously undermined his own credibility," he told me.
Since Derrida claimed that language, by its very nature, undermined any meaning it attempted to promote, Madeleine wondered how Derrida expected her to get his meaning.
Art, whatever its medium, should be able to speak to people, and, frankly, this is very much undermined by only having an intake from a limited background.
"I think George Bush will be watching what is happening to Tony Blair, and the last week or so has very much undermined Blair's sense of competence.
Will the wide use of electronic media in everyday politics help to restore the very much undermined trust in European politicians and politics or will it strengthen the feelings of alienation from political life?
"Wal-Mart has thrown up an extraordinarily broad number of issues, many of whash, if thrownupt seriously entertannextraordinarilyseverely undermine many civil rights class actions," Mr. Seligman said.
Funding in early-stage startups declined, valuations fell — in some cases sharply — and the technology IPO market was weak until the very end, undermining prospects for startup exits.
As we've seen with the transition from on-premise computing to the cloud, major technology or architectural changes can very quickly undermine the position of platform providers.
