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weaken gradually- Combined with a rising burden of government spending, this fiscal policy undermined economic performance.Sven R Larson -- The Swedish Tax System — Key Features and Lessons for Policy Makers -- http://www.freedomandprosperity.org/Papers/sweden/sweden.shtml (retrieved 06/28/06)
- Republicans have supported, and will continue to support, important scientific research without undermining the fundamental ethical principles that have guided medical research in this country for decades.2004 Republican Party Platform -- http://www.gop.com/media/2004platform.pdf (retrieved 06/28/06)
- In effect, the dictators and the murderers have systematically come to dominate the institution designed to bring them to justice [The Human Rights Commission]. This policy completely undermines the integrity and decency of the entire U.N. and should be offensive to free peoples everywhere.John R. Bolton -- American Justice and the International Criminal Court -- http://www.aei.org/publications/pubID.22883/pub_detail.asp (retrieved 06/29/06)
- It'll undermine its confidence."Nora Roberts -- Blood Brothers
- But the vividness and depth of his memories touched her and slowly undermined her resolve to stay objective.William P. Young -- The Shack
- Well, you can't expect the decent citizens to go on aiding you if you intend to side with precisely the people who are trying to undermine us."Sinclair Lewis -- Babbitt
- Economics aside, this is a conspiracy to undermine the leadership of a suspicious, authoritarian regime.Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Supremacy
- We poked through the remains of hospital foundations, undermined by erosion channels.Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston & James D. Houston -- Farewell to Manzanar
- Fear undermines logic and opens up all sorts of opportunities for people like me.Becca Fitzpatrick -- Hush, Hush
- Yet this tension exists within the limits of urban life, undermining it and supporting it in the same gesture of being.Richard Wright -- Native Son
- They can only undermine it.John F. Kennedy -- Cuban Missle Crisis Speech
- As the King's Champion, she might find ways to save countless lives—ways to undermine the king's authority.Sarah J. Maas -- Throne of Glass
- You are being undermined, pitilessly undermined, and—and it is really melancholy to see you so calm about it.Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- The Idiot
- She saw now that she had undermined his authority in all eyes by flouting his orders.Elizabeth George Speare -- The Witch of Blackbird Pond
- They had no right to undermine him now.Ted Dekker -- Red: The Heroic Rescue
- Broad smiles and hollow laughter were undermined by trembling legs and shaking hands.Wes Moore -- The Other Wes Moore
- That, coupled with their shaken confidence, could undermine everything they'd accomplished so far.Joshua Davis -- Spare Parts
- He can't be allowed to dock points... that would be ridiculous... it would completely undermine the prefect system.J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
- How long could he hold out before he, too, became lost in the hunger and fatigue that undermined his decisions?Velma Wallis -- Two Old Women
- But the wrong to the Indian was the undermining of his faith.Zane Grey -- The Rainbow Trail
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