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And there are people who think that the existence of my family somehow undermines or weakens or damages their family.
It undermines our fixed truths and what we believe to be our culture and their culture.
In an environment that defies so much forecasting, efficiency won't just not help us, it specifically undermines and erodes our capacity to adapt and respond.
It has good direction but the simple fact is that it undermines what all gay and lesbian people have been fighting for all these years.
Most probably self funded this is clearly an attempt to redress important issues but ultimately undermines its point of existence in that the question needs to be begged, who would ever put money into distributing this and secondly if a market audience doesn't exist to watch, buy or rent this film, why would anyone bother in the first place?
He also undermines his own persona by dressing and walking like Chaplin's tramp character.
Sadly, he undermines himself toward the end by actually holding back from a twist ending where more genetic malformations would appear (they are hinted at as well).
And giving him a Scully-type partner is also a lame idea; it undermines Kolchak as a lone, Don Quixote crusader!
Instead the movie undermines itself by lowering the I.Q. of the characters so that the number of danger points can lengthen the movie.
Also,the film's lack of the pivotal rape scene that ends the marriage in the novel undermines the reason why Irene detests Soames so much.
I think the fact that Hollywood's idea of what it thinks the audience wants to see, clearly undermines the bottom line of the moviegoers intelligence.
The hydrocarbons sector secures Russian growth, undermines the power of Arab producers and OPEC, and thus promises a decrease in oil prices.
Indeed, incompetent states now comprise almost a majority in the UN, which undermines that body's moral legitimacy in the eyes of many in the developed world.
While potential coalitions to check American power may be created, it is unlikely that they will become firm alliances unless the US handles its hard coercive power in an overbearing unilateral manner that undermines its "soft" or attractive power.
This state of affairs does not hurt only women; it undermines everyone’s prospects.
In fact, China’s courtship of resource-rich Third World tyrannies and its recent step toward the weaponization of outer space undermines its carefully crafted new image as a paragon of “harmonious” social development.
This is important because the US might oppose any plan that undermines demand for Treasury bills (and thus its guaranteed access to low-cost financing).
In the meantime, politicians are lulled into a false sense of complacency that undermines their incentive to confront the structural challenges they face.
Chirac's outburst is so damaging to European unity precisely because it undermines this most fundamental kernel of trust.
This undermines the IMF’s relevance and is at the root of the early repayments that have left the Fund with almost no income.
Unfortunately, however, the industry is plagued by illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing, which undermines conservation efforts and handicaps honest fishers and businesses that follow the rules.
For all of them, what matters is that the sorry fate of the Reinhart/Rogoff paper undermines the case for fiscal austerity.
Such coordination would infringe on central-bank independence no more than multilateral cooperation undermines the sovereignty of the countries involved.
In fact, fiscal austerity directly undermines these objectives, depressing demand and discouraging growth.
The continued pursuit of austerity, a growing number of countries recognize, undermines the acknowledged goal of sustained non-inflationary growth.
Official Syriza documents regularly condemn the EU as an organization that undermines democracy and causes poverty and destitution throughout Europe.
Together with a lack of technical capabilities such as ICT skills, this undermines their ability to adapt to the fast-changing technologies that are the lifeblood of today’s economies.
Export-led economies, of course, can’t take currency appreciation lightly – it undermines competitiveness and risks eroding the country’s share of the global market.
This trend undermines the assumption that banks allocate capital efficiently.
Fishing piracy also undermines the livelihoods of law-abiding fishermen in the United States and Europe.
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