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But they're also trying to undermine everything in the game.
Or in the case of double agents and traitors, like Robert Hanssen or Aldrich Ames, lies can betray our country, they can compromise our security, they can undermine democracy, they can cause the deaths of those that defend us.
They use political violence to intimidate, physical violence to terrorize and mental or emotional violence to undermine.
And there's this Flaubert quote that I love: "I have always tried to live in an ivory tower, but a tide of shit is beating at its walls, threatening to undermine it."
Now if responsibility and transparency are two of the cornerstones of representative government, autonomous robotic weapons could undermine both.
In those domains, bringing market mechanisms and cash incentives may undermine or crowd out nonmarket values and attitudes worth caring about.
Once we see that markets and commerce, when extended beyond the material domain, can change the character of the goods themselves, can change the meaning of the social practices, as in the example of teaching and learning, we have to ask where markets belong and where they don't, where they may actually undermine values and attitudes worth caring about.
In the Arab region, they brand these attempts as a Western conspiracy to undermine traditional Arab and Islamic values.
So then, when we ask oneself how to nurture the condition for happiness, the inner conditions, and which are those which will undermine happiness.
Could anyone honestly suggest, on the evidence, that the same media which Hansard so roundly condemned have taken sufficient care to avoid behaving in ways which they could reasonably have foreseen would be likely to undermine or even damage our inherently fragile democratic settlement.
Well, Xcel fought back, and Xcel has now put in play a ballot measure that would undermine or undo this municipalization.
They clung to certainty in the belief that doubt would undermine them.
So in order to undermine the power and profit of these groups, we need to change the conversation.
And in the case of drugs, in order to undermine this fear and prejudice that surrounds the issue, we managed to gather and present data that shows that today's drug policies cause much more harm than drug use per se, and people are starting to get it.
This isn't to undermine the hard work that you and your teachers here put in.
And then, on top of that, the Chinese to this day believe that the United States and the West do not accept the legitimacy of their political system because it's so radically different from those of us who come from liberal democracies, and believe that the United States to this day is seeking to undermine their political system.
I mean, first of all, some people may just be profoundly depressed at the thought that, if evolution does not favor reality, I mean, doesn't that to some extent undermine all our endeavors here, all our ability to think that we can think the truth, possibly even including your own theory, if you go there?
This doesn't just undermine recovery.
Most people intuitively blame it on their nerves, but why does being nervous undermine expert performance?
And even the election of a nationalist party in Taiwan that's pro-independence earlier this year does not undermine this fundamental dynamic.
Now, American soldiers, American veterans are coming back to a country that is so bitterly divided that the two political parties are literally accusing each other of treason, of being an enemy of the state, of trying to undermine the security and the welfare of their own country.
This deliberate irony is an example of doublespeak, when words are used not to convey meaning but to undermine it, corrupting the very ideas they refer to.
The illness can undermine educational and professional performance, relationships, financial security, and personal safety.
They also picked up sounds of Dr. King having sex with women who were not his wife, and J. Edgar Hoover saw the opportunity here to discredit and undermine the Civil Rights Movement.
Hoover ran a program called COINTELPRO for 15 years which was designed to spy on and undermine civic groups that were devoted to things like civil rights, the Women's Rights Movement, and peace groups and anti-war movements.
Because those rules mean that companies cannot misuse their power to undermine competition.
Yet it's not only companies who can undermine fair competition.
And that may undermine not only our trust in the market but also our trust in the society.
The possibility of riots that could injure marchers and undermine their message of peaceful protest was a huge concern.
Does talk of curing climate change undermine the will to cut emissions?
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