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Example sentences for: undermine

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Bruno's crime, like Galileo's, was to undermine the uniqueness of our planet, and by doing so, to threaten the intellectual security of the religious dictatorships of his time.
Writing the decision in the first of three 5-4 cases that undermine the rights of the individual to defend himself against a state government, Kennedy argued that when a state violates a federal law, the federal government can sue, but the individual victim cannot.
Conservatives, many of whom do not believe in Social Security in the first place, are hard at work devising plans to undermine it by shifting to a system of individual accounts.
An independent study funded by the Pentagon warned in mid-November that hasty deployment of the system could undermine its eventual success.
But Dawn said that "persistent Indian rejection of anything it sees as third-party mediation might undermine his assertion that President Bill Clinton's pledge to take a personal interest in the row might yield progress."