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Example sentences for: undermining

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American skeptics worry that Putin might wield too much state power over the economy and society, thereby undermining both capitalism and democracy.
2) The probe is now turning a profit for the government, undermining Democrats' charges that Smaltz wasted tax money on it.
But there are other, better ways of transmitting the official White House line, contend Ann McDaniel (CBS's Face the Nation ) and George Stephanopoulos (ABC's This Week ). Stephanopoulos argues that the White House would not needlessly admit the existence of presidential love gifts, thereby undermining the Story of the Seventh Commandment that it is peddling.
By this logic, because the WTO doesn't include labor and environmental regulations in its trade rules (thereby undermining such regulations in many countries, according to the protesters), the WTO should be suspended.
His happy-go-yuppie sensibility tells him that we can have our cake and eat it too, that technology can uphold tradition instead of undermining it.