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His recapture will assuage relations between the US and Mexico, which were undermined by Guzmán's escape last year with the alleged help of corrupt prison officials, according to Reuters.

Until the settlements stopped entirely, he insisted, there was no point in any peace plan for the Middle East.This was his message at the Madrid Conference in 1991 and at the Washington talks that followed talks which he led and which were undermined, to his disgust, by secret accords made later at Oslo between Arafat and the Israelis.

Wilson and Barbara were forced into humiliating defeat behind a fig leaf "solemn and binding" agreement that the TUC and the unions would work together to try to restrain the unofficial strikes which were undermining economic recovery.

The British were concerned about communist influence and labour strikes which were undermining Singapore's economic stability, and felt that the local government was ineffective in handling earlier riots.

He will be scrutinising the operation of the security department, which was undermined by the programmes.

"We have, as a base [for the plan], Cerdà's Eixample, which was undermined by greed.

He raised the spectre of the 2000 elections, which was undermined by the hanging chad issue.

A truly vocational profession which is undermined by constant change, poor funding and moving targets.

Both are better than the grilled eggplant crowned with mozzarella, which was undermined by its bed of pale pink tomatoes.

The thriller featured an intricate plot, which was undermined by studio cuts, but the strong cast which included Burt Lancaster, Dennis Hopper, Rutger Hauer, and John Hurt was able to hold viewers' interest.

This style creates a sense of intimacy, which is undermined by a chilly sensibility, a frankly avaricious way of looking at the world, and an aversion to sentiment.