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This con man, Henry Oberlander, he was such an effective con man, British authorities say he could have undermined the entire banking system of the Western world.
Our democracies are undermined by the growing inequality and the growing concentration of power and wealth, lobbies, corruption, the speed of the markets or simply the fact that we sometimes fear an impending disaster, have constrained our democracies, and they have constrained our capacity to imagine and actually use the potential, your potential, in finding solutions.
There's a lot of really compelling research coming out from top labs all over the world, showcasing the range of things that are undermined as economic inequality gets worse.
We should always remember that our notion of individual freedom and its partner, creative freedom, is comparatively new in the history of Western ideas, and for that reason, it's often undervalued and can be very quickly undermined.
Revelations of covert wars, secret assassinations, and political corruption undermined public faith in official narratives presented by mainstream sources.
Our privacy is being undermined.
And moral will is undermined by an incessant appeal to incentives that destroy our desire to do the right thing.
But the horror is a little undermined by the fact that the dozy teenagers are so irritating that you don't really care what happens to them.
What passable efforts in acting from this motley crew are totally undermined by a plot and script of especial inanity.
This 1997 studio product is an odd hybrid of a film since considerable technical effects are shown for scary purposes but the authentic terrors of the original have been completely undermined, in my opinion.
A number of better scenes are undermined by corny, conventional melodrama elsewhere.
But in the end, as in "Far From Heaven," the filmmakers' good intentions are undermined by having a protagonist so ridiculously oblivious to the social conventions of their time.
Why would Burt Lancaster allow himself to play a poor schnook who is ultimately undermined by femme fatale Anna Dundee, played by Yvonne DeCarlo in 'Criss Cross'?
personally i'd rather have seen a bit more about the story and the people in the city or got to know more about how the chairman was being undermined, than yet another long and loud gun fight.
Mark comes across as his own worse enemy: his childlike ambition and optimism -- which I admire -- is undermined by his apparent artistic ineptitude as well as his bizarre fiscal expectations.
What could have been an engaging-and emotionally charged character study is totally undermined by the predictable factor.
Hasn't the end rather undermined the rest of the film?
Most yeti pictures are fatally undermined by a grave paucity of energy and enthusiasm.
The frantically underlined Careful Research, and the general odor of educational intent, smother the valiant gestures at comedy, and the pricey period detail of the production design is wholly undermined by a dramatic arc that is pure 1980s bootstrap trash.
While the premise certainly has promise, alas said promise is severely undermined by writer/director Brett Piper's lackluster execution: the sluggish pace crawls along for the first two thirds of the picture, there's no spooky atmosphere to speak of, the special effects are strictly so-so, and the drab and uneventful script gets bogged down in a dull surplus of insipid talk.
But just through his portrayal of Mr. Rochester in this adaptation of Jane Eyre, he has undermined my love for his acting.
Some story elements have been altered here and there but it never undermined the finished product significantly as to throw off die-hard fans, although I was disappointed that Gambit wasn't included.
Unfortunately, all this star power is undermined by the mediocre script.
The suspension of disbelief must be supported in drama, not undermined as it was here.
Surely some of these directionless scenes are meant to be satiric, but his sense of humor is always undermined by a draggy, self-serious need to "teach us something".
Grungy, and undermined by druggy influences, the movie doesn't take shape.
Unfortunately the film already had been undermined for me by that point.
What could have simply been dismissed as shock tactics is undermined by the unsexiness of the sequence and the music which reaches crescendo as the bored Marcos attains orgasm.
And, by bowing to the UK’s pressure, the Fund undermined its only real asset – its independence.
But in taking this latest step, the Fund has undermined – perhaps fatally – its ability to speak “truth to power.”
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