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Hobbled by the self-inflicted wounds of the debt-ceiling debacle in the summer of 2011 – which undermined economic growth and job creation, and further damaged Americans’ confidence in their political system – the US Congress and President Barack Obama’s administration recognized the need for a measured and rational approach to fiscal reform.
Far from enhancing British influence, threats of withdrawal have undermined the Cameron government’s credibility and influence within the EU, as colleagues have become disinclined to engage in significant compromises with a UK that may not be a member in two years.
Inter-war corporatism undermined labor unions, even outlawing strikes.
America’s ability to export would also be undermined, because foreign markets would likely be affected, and because, in any case, if export firms cannot get credit, they most likely cannot produce.
A steep hike in the consumption tax in 2014, together with another hike expected in the near future, has undermined household spending.
During the winter, Putin’s poor policy choices on the financial crisis undermined his power.
Waning external demand has undermined the capacity of China’s old manufacturing- and export-based growth model to sustain extremely high growth rates.
Its actions in Haiti, however, have severely undermined those goals.
The truth is, that China's real interests are undermined by the firing of missiles off the coast of Taiwan, threatening Hong Kong's elected Legislative Council with dissolution in 1997, thwarting the Dalai Lama by countermanding his selection of the Panchen Lama's reincarnation, selling ballistic missiles to Pakistan and nuclear technology to Iran, saber rattling over the Spratly Islands, or accusing the U.S. of "interfering in China's internal affairs" when it calls attention to trade and human rights abuses.
Nevertheless, older people’s crucial role is continually undermined, as opportunities are created and technology is deployed in ways that exclude them from employment, public life, and even family affairs.
America is waking up to what was built while it slept: private companies have hired away its police (JPMorgan Chase gave $4.6 million to the New York City Police Foundation); the federal Department of Homeland Security has given small municipal police forces military-grade weapons systems; citizens’ rights to freedom of speech and assembly have been stealthily undermined by opaque permit requirements.
In recent months, Bush undermined biological theories of evolution in favor of Christian fundamentalist dogmas.
Factually incorrect statements from top officials, including Ukraine’s interior minister, Arsen Avakov, have undermined the credibility of the investigation.
The cosmopolitan elites have stabbed “us” in the back; we are facing an abyss; our culture is being undermined by aliens; our nation can become great again once we eliminate the traitors, shut down their voices in the media, and unite the “silent majority” to revive the healthy national organism.
The resulting paralysis has not only permitted massive loss of human life; it has also undermined the credibility of collective security, enabling increasingly flagrant human-rights abuses.
By causing a continuous shift to the political right, Israel’s occupation policy has undermined the state’s political and ethical foundations, while turning Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu into a hostage of forces even more extreme than he is.
They saved the banking systems, modernized telecommunications networks, rebuilt ailing industries, raised the quality of goods, and undermined the cozy vested interests that had robbed ordinary citizens for decades.
From this perspective, inflation expectations can be assumed to be either ideal predictions of the future, or at the very least rational ones, with their accuracy and precision undermined only by limitations in information received by economic actors.
But free-market radicalism undermined the role of the state in building a better, more just, and more equal society.
Australia’s Millennium drought, which lasted from the late 1990s until 2012, undermined energy production, causing prices to rise.
This lack of early treatment undermined her recovery, and she has continued to experience episodes of depression throughout her life.
The resulting economic slowdown has undermined the government’s capacity to maintain inflated asset prices and avoid pockets of credit distress.
The inflationary credit bubble spurred in southern European countries by the persistence of lower interest rates undermined their competitiveness and drove asset and property prices to unsustainably high levels.
But, though rhetoric matters in diplomacy, the pivot will be fatally undermined if Asians perceive the same sort of gap between America’s words and its actions that has become apparent in its Middle East policy (despite Kerry’s determined efforts to revitalize peace talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority).
This is necessary not only for the sake of the Bank itself, but, more fundamentally, for the sake of the poor in developing countries, whose access to public services and opportunities for a better life are undermined by weak governance and graft.
But the fixed exchange-rate system also undermined the United States’ capacity to manage its balance of payments.
But America’s ability to offer a credible diplomatic path will be seriously undermined if others judge that it cannot be trusted to stand by agreements.
These actors’ insistence on privatization, deregulation, and liberalization of capital markets and trade – the so-called Washington Consensus – enriched business and financial elites, led to acute crises, and undermined emerging economies’ growth.
The post-war liberal order has been in serious trouble since the 2008 financial crisis, which weakened Western economies and undermined global-governance bodies and regulatory institutions.
Meanwhile, emerging powers, particularly China and Russia, have further undermined key liberal institutions and values.
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