The First World War undermined the immunity and confidence of the rich.
The ferocity of total war undermined, perhaps fatally, the capacity of European societies to live together on the basis of a shared humanity.
He risked the anger of President Lyndon Johnson, and of fellow civil rights leaders who thought that speaking out against the war undermined the effort for racial equality.
But the civil war undermined the country's potential to become a regional economic power, said Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu, executive director of the Center for Policy Alternatives, a Colombo-based research group.
We knew that if the war undermined confidence in the power, good faith and common sense of the United States, that could lead toward disastrous changes on the financial front.
Though they mended their ways to some extent after Sept. 11, and initially tried to work through the Security Council on Iraq, the White House's obvious intention to go to war undermined that effort.
She writes about how the war undermined her relationship with her serious boyfriend back home and how she became an "adrenaline junkie" — hooked on things that "went boom," to the "vortex of work and fun," to the sense of aliveness she felt amid the chaos.
In a speech to military contractors, Mr. Gates said that the current system, much of which dates from the end of the cold war, undermined the nation's defense because it made it so difficult for the United States to supply weapons and equipment to friendly countries, including those with forces fighting alongside American troops in Afghanistan.
Such a failure would affect post-presidential assessments of him in much the same way that the Vietnam War undermined the record of President Lyndon Johnson.
A 2006 National Intelligence Estimate, a report of the consensus views of all intelligence agencies, said flatly that the Iraq War undermines the war on terror.
