Dempsey claimed it was strangling national political debate and undermining effective representative parliamentary democracy. |
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After reading that, I feel they are deliberately undermining and allowing our soldiers to be relatively unprotected and directly in harm's way. |
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More stringency on the part of the regulators would go some way to undermining the comparative monetary laxity now established by the Fed. |
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Were a writ now to be issued the High Court would be undermining the decision of the Court of Appeal. |
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Releasing the photos at that point would have run the risk of stirring up insurrectionists and undermining the new government. |
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Savvy laypeople will see through these broad brush strokes, thus undermining the credibility of the experimental method. |
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He felt able to retain confidence in his faith while making scientific advancements which could be portrayed as undermining his beliefs. |
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Good neighbors on both sides of the fence need to express their political disagreements without undermining neighborly good will and friendships. |
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They're not paying good money to send their children to a private school where the teachers are undermining them. |
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In each region, he finds, demographics are undermining the social and economic arrangements that conduce to prosperity. |
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What we have here is a blatant undermining of the system under the cover of legality. |
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Critics have gone too far in undermining fields of philosophy such as metaphysics and central concepts such as rationality. |
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Over-consumption, pollution, the loss of species and habitats, and mismanagement of natural resources are undermining global habitability. |
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The excessiveness of the pay demand has succeeded in undermining public support for the fire fighters. |
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At first merely uninteresting, the ploy eventually descends into slapstick comedy, undermining the prevailing halcyon tone of the work. |
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A shadow government has emerged, which issues executive fiats undermining constitutional guarantees of privacy, due process and free speech. |
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Dreverhaven seemingly hinders him at every turn, undermining his successes out of spite, trying to break his will and ruin him financially. |
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Businesses created by the Internet are undermining the control of traditional business-government oligarchies. |
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They charge on-air hosts with inciting hate, undermining public debate and spreading harmful lies. |
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Is it not the duty of governments to take action against immoralist philosophers who are undermining civilisation? |
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One key component of this is the undermining of the fact-based, forensic, head-to-head interview with those in power and those who seek it. |
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And in fact, the film's potential strength lies in its undermining of such bravado. |
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And much as the Roman Empire had clipped their coins to create more money, the Fed was already undermining the gold standard. |
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This paved the way for multiculturalism, undermining the relevance of assimilation for many new immigrants. |
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Legalising physician assisted suicide would carry a high risk of undermining the care of all dying patients. |
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Beckham's ego, in contrast, is in danger of undermining and jeopardising England's potential as a team. |
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He is undermining the credibility and independence of the judiciary, and for what? |
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The inspectors are irritated because it knocked them off their perch, undermining their authority and purpose on the world stage. |
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This goes a long way towards undermining the railroads and any other public transportation except buses and taxis. |
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The surgeon creates a scleral pocket by dissecting posteriorly, undermining the tissue with Wescott scissors. |
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Otherwise candidates and parties would constantly game the system and change the rules, undermining the legitimacy of every election. |
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It came in 1990, undermining their magnanimity, but also galvanising me and my colleagues into human rights activism. |
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They are visually poisonous, depressing, environmentally undermining, life-shortening, spiritually deadening, brain-dulling piles of crud. |
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Let's not throw these advantages away by undermining the science education of our young people. |
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It is one of the various small ways in which the public can fight back against the people who are undermining their quality of life. |
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The rise of the niche and boutique hotels has been undermining growth at the exclusive top-end market. |
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There are few viable options to combat crimeware's success in undermining today's technologies. |
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Aggressiveness can detract from self-development by undermining academic pursuits and creating socially alienating conditions. |
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The excellent cast manage to tease out the humour of the play without undermining its tragic elements. |
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The move would also have the result, so far scarcely noted, of undermining the teaching orders of priests and religious sisters. |
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Expect to see them pointing the finger at SDLP MPs and accusing them of undermining the national project. |
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Foreign investment has fallen by two thirds and revenues from tourism have halved, undermining Israel's currency, the shekel. |
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A big cut in the dividend is inevitable, further undermining the case for holding the shares. |
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It is a dangerous political issue where self-interest and short-termism risk undermining sound policy. |
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The film is so over-populated with characters that it frequently feels disjointed and incoherent, thereby undermining the overall enjoyment. |
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It has come to our knowledge that many properties had not been declared for property tax, undermining severely the tax collections. |
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This middle position may reassure educators that laggard schools will be prodded without undermining public education. |
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All I was saying was that school tuck shops shouldn't be undermining choices parents make for their own children. |
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We could really do without the sniping from the sidelines and continual undermining of our efforts. |
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With no room for metaphor and no place for pagan poetics, Protestant discourse was undermining both a symbolic and a social status quo. |
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After the Conservative defeat of 1880 he led a small ginger group known as the Fourth Party undermining the party leadership of Northcote. |
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Howard blustered about mad officials meddling in people's lives and undermining plain common sense and individual responsibility. |
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The double standard that black youth feel operating in their communities is undermining their faith in black leaders to walk their talk. |
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And so, while she was demanding great things of us, she was also, in a way, undermining our ability to fulfill them. |
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Nation states will not be interested in enabling that power, only in undermining it. |
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And it is this influence which is understandably resented by many, who see it as insidiously undermining our own culture. |
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Some remedial work to prevent scour and undermining of the foundations was carried out during the last century to the new bridge but it is now showing signs of wear. |
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But now only God is to be addressed as abba, stripping the legitimation from existing patriarchal institutions and implicitly undermining all relationships of domination. |
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Science is upsetting the apple cart, challenging long held notions related to life span and personality, undermining our cherished, traditional thoughts about ourselves. |
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An acute shortage of experienced staff is undermining growth, says Wong. |
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Republicans have pushed every procedural edge as a minority, undermining the basic trust and comity of the institution. |
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Either it reappointed her, appearing to close down the transparency of the appointment process, or it advertised her job, apparently undermining her independence. |
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Several U.S. anthropologists have observed recently that the discipline may be so detached from real world issues that it runs the risk of undermining itself. |
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You cannot defend the Constitution abroad while undermining it at home. |
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Tort reform, for example, attracts millions in campaign lucre from corporate leaders while undermining trial lawyers, a major Democratic support base. |
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Although they come at it from different perspectives, both owners exhibit a naked greed and selfishness that is undermining the existence of professional sports. |
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He added that this is undermining the confidence consumers have in the quality and tractability of Irish potatoes with potentially very damaging consequences for growers. |
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But unconstitutionally undermining the 2nd Amendment rights of law-abiding Americans is not the way to do it. |
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There is no question that undermining the financial foundations of ISIS is an important first step to rolling back the group. |
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Are you unaware of the role agent provocateurs, special branch and MI5 have played in undermining us? |
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Were immigrants arriving in such numbers that they might remain unassimilated in cultural ghettoes, eventually undermining social or national cohesion? |
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The Romans also developed tunnelling for military purposes, either by breaking through behind enemy defences or by undermining fortifications to cause their collapse. |
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Any senior official suggesting events were inevitable, that the next bomb could have your name on it, would probably have been sacked for undermining public confidence. |
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The U.S. faces structural headwinds to growth, undermining job creation and the safe de-levering of overstretched balance sheets. |
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Faced with the undermining of national power, the regional bourgeoisies seek their own deals with international corporations and financial bodies. |
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This flaw in an otherwise laudable health strategy must be addressed swiftly before it becomes a soft target for those intent on undermining the overall plan. |
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The complexity of this debate has sown confusion among feminist human rights activists, undermining the effectiveness of the global feminist movement. |
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The challenge is to identify a rate of return that is generous enough to encourage non-excessive investment while at the same time not undermining economic welfare. |
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I have had it with members of your party undermining our troops. |
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In multicultural, pluralist, tolerant Britain, ridiculing religion is frowned upon and causing offence or undermining the self-esteem of communities is a cardinal sin. |
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That is, Austen invited an intense identification with her heroines while undermining the reader's ability to do so through the irony inherent in free indirect speech. |
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The move away from national capitalisms to a more uniform system based on market disciplines has contributed to the undermining of the legitimacy of governments in Europe. |
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The great social shift which was slowly undermining the position of the Established Church in England before 1790 had no parallel in the contemporary Caribbean. |
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Municipal reform might well replace a patrician oligarchy of local gentry and merchants, weakening collective action and undermining the corporate, civic culture. |
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It has been read as a subtle undermining of Henry's imperializing project. |
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Unable to buy supplies, military commanders resorted to impressment of food and animals, undermining civilian morale and burdening farmers nearest the troops. |
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To the extent that globalization constrains states or renders their policies ineffective it has the effect, many would argue, of undermining democracy. |
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The intolerable delay is partly to blame, undermining witness testimony. |
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I object, not to the paperwork that demoralises teachers, but to the undermining of them as caring and knowledgeable professionals that it represents. |
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A process of deterritorialization leads to an undermining of nation states and democracies in a drive toward turning the globe into one large consumerist collective. |
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A by-product of the diminution of subjectivity was the undermining of medical science and the corresponding inflation of health as a moral discourse. |
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One might conclude, as some did in antiquity, that Arcesilaus therefore had a hidden objective of undermining Stoic or Epicurean empiricism in favor of Platonic doctrine. |
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This area has been criticized for undermining universities which do not use English as their primary language. |
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To protect them from undermining, curtain walls were sometimes given a stone skirt around their bases. |
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The massacre had the result of resolutely turning all the Aztecs against the Spanish and completely undermining Moctezuma's authority. |
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It is worrying that that there are people spreading poison about the company unattributably and this is undermining confidence. |
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With the English paying higher prices, they were significantly undermining Dutch aims for a monopoly. |
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The Russians are quickly undermining US influence in the region and even violating NATO's airspace by freely overflying Turkey. |
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But, speaking on Top Gear, motor mouth Clarkson claimed the couple are undermining the car's stylish status. |
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In another part of his work, Pliny describes the use of undermining to gain access to the veins. |
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It would be a Pyrrhic victory, undermining already shaky intergovernmental relations and leading to the demise of the local air pollution agency. |
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Land grabbers and drug barons wanted to disrupt the peace of Karachi by fuelling sectarianism and undermining political harmony, he added. |
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It is Rechy's habit to pull no punches when exposing those he thinks are undermining or disvaluing his personhood as a gay man. |
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On the contrary, it is controverting Europe's fundamental values and undermining its interests. |
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At the same time, everywhere in the world Dutch entrepreneurship and colonists were undermining Spanish and Portuguese hegemony. |
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Lennon announced his departure to the rest of the group on 20 September, but agreed to withhold a public announcement to avoid undermining sales of the forthcoming album. |
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This campaign included allegations of poaching Virgin Atlantic customers, tampering with private files belonging to Virgin and undermining Virgin's reputation in the City. |
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However, both left and right deserve blame for infantilizing political discourse, undermining serious debate and drowning out reasoned conversation. |
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Swift's writing was so effective in undermining opinion in the project that a reward was offered by the government to anyone disclosing the true identity of the author. |
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In July 2008, BBC Radio Scotland's head, Jeff Zycinski, stated that the BBC, and media in general, were complicit in undermining celebrities, including Winehouse. |
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Anders Fogh Rasmussen said Russia was mounting a sophisticated disinformation campaign aimed at undermining attempts to exploit alternative energy sources such as shale gas. |
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The main problem is that beavers excavate corridors and caves in dikes, thereby undermining the stability of the dike, just as the muskrat and the coypu do. |
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He revoked grants from customs and of lands made during his captivity, undermining the position of those who had gained in his absence, particularly the Albany Stewarts. |
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A WATCHDOG has called for tougher action against so-called nuisance call number spoofing, warning that their increasing use was undermining the UK's caller ID system. |
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The Empire soon fell into a period of difficulties, caused to a large extent by the undermining of the theme system and the neglect of the military. |
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Disallowing prophylactic benztropine permitted the emergence of parkinsonian symptoms, undermining haloperidol compliance and compromising the double blind. |
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She's undermining my authority and that's not a good thing foraman in my position, which is to say wearing regulation lyrca-mix racing briefs, nose clips and bathing cap. |
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The Arabs initiated land reforms, which increased productivity and encouraged the growth of smallholdings, undermining the dominance of the latifundia. |
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To prevent civil war and possible foreign intervention from undermining the infant republic, leaders agreed to Army's demand that China be united under a Beijing government. |
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Geoffrey Elton was important in undermining the case for a Marxist historiography, which he argued was presenting seriously flawed interpretations of the past. |
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Perhaps McDaniels learned something as Belichick, the master compartmentalizer, kept those controversies from undermining the New England Patriots. |
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During the last decades of the Ming the flow of silver into China was greatly diminished, thereby undermining state revenues and indeed the entire Ming economy. |
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Edward insisted that he was Scotland's sovereign and possessed the right to hear appeals against Balliol's judgements, undermining Balliol's authority. |
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Henry secured his crown principally by dividing and undermining the power of the nobility, especially through the aggressive use of bonds and recognisances to secure loyalty. |
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During the last decades of the Ming the flow of silver into China was greatly diminished, thereby undermining state revenues and the entire Chinese economy. |
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