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In fact, this governance-focused approach may have actually undermined development efforts.
Comparisons between Tudjman and Tito, however, are undermined by anachronism.
This undermined Khatami’s authority even further.
Indeed, anything worthwhile that a monarch can do, an elected non-executive president can do better – not least because an elected official is much less likely to be undermined by the scandals of pampered offspring or degraded by the inevitable hypocrisy and servility of a royal court.
First, the newcomers share a problem that undermined the social market model in Western Europe: demographic decline and, consequently, the prospect of soaring health and pension costs.
Recent developments have undermined US credibility, from President Barack Obama’s failure to enforce his “red line” warning against the use of chemical weapons in Syria, to the Republican Party’s nomination of Donald Trump as its presidential candidate.
As a case in point, many Western observers thought that Norway’s trade relations with China would be undermined when dissident Liu Xiaobo was invited to receive the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo in December 2010.
Attempts to shore up the banks through “stress tests” that lack credible recapitalization facilities and resolution mechanisms have undermined confidence in sovereign debt.
And liberal democracies’ apparent inability to protect their citizens from infringement of their individual rights has undermined their standing at home and abroad.
But, given the urgency of the situations in Libya, Mali, and the Central African Republic, this lack of support has not undermined France’s efforts as much as prior consultation with European leaders would have done.
The number of combatants has fallen by two-thirds, four important FARC leaders have been eliminated, and the group’s ties to drug trafficking and kidnapping have undermined its image in Colombia and elsewhere.
Over time, the persistence of these conditions undermined the competitiveness of domestic industry, impeding sales of Brazilian products not only internationally, but also in the robust and growing internal market.
In fact, it is American interests that are being undermined by the Trump administration’s determination not to poke the Russian bear.
This surging population undermined India's economic development.
While tackling climate change effectively will be virtually impossible without civil-society organizations’ participation, their impact has often been undermined by the political considerations of their governments, which may, for example, favor incumbent energy suppliers over green alternatives in order to preserve existing jobs.
But prolonged economic recession in developed countries, together with the rise of cheap shale gas, has undermined investment in clean technologies.
One regular aspect of post-war Latin America has been that such bonanzas have been undermined by large current account deficits, and thus indebtedness.
He could not influence in any meaningful manner the national narratives that had sunk deep roots in other European countries and thus undermined those countries’ ability to adapt.
While his brash style undermined outcomes, it would be a real tragedy to lose sight of his arguments (which have been made by many others as well).
The picture is no brighter in Europe, where countries' willful neglect of their military capabilities has undermined their ability to enforce the rule of law when international mechanisms break down.
That has undermined the case for fiscal consolidation, which is so heavily favored in Europe.
Devious and erratic negotiating tactics, coupled with secret schemes to prepare – as part of a “Plan B” – for an exit from the euro, undermined the government’s trustworthiness, leading even Paul Krugman to admit: “I may have overestimated the competence of the Greek government.”
Massive government interventions during the crisis have undermined this principle, and have probably already destroyed much of the inherited wealth.
Following such a vote, the UK could begin to repair its reputation in the EU – a reputation that has been severely undermined by our prolonged status as the carping, semi-detached member of the club.
Unlike before World War II, when democratization efforts were undermined by the rise of authoritarianism in Germany, the region’s countries are now fully integrated into a network of highly stable Western democracies.
In the most celebrated American case of the twentieth century, Brown v. Board of Education, the Justices were probably influenced by a government brief explaining how racial segregation in the southern United States undermined American efforts to compete with the Soviet Union for the hearts and minds of people in developing countries.
Paradoxically, NATO's recent actions have undermined the very credibility they were supposed establish in the new post-cold-war environment.
Worse still, Germany’s misguided imposition of austerity on the eurozone has undermined European political cohesion, thereby opening the door for Russian revanchism and aggression.
The debt burden destroyed consumer confidence and undermined the banking system, crippling the economy.
The growing sense of unfairness accompanying these developments has undermined “democratic legitimacy,” as Paul Tucker discusses in his book Unelected Power.
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