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We're burning fossil fuels at such a rate that we seem to be undermining the Goldilocks conditions that made it possible for human civilizations to flourish over the last 10,000 years.
I want to talk about how the things we've been taught to think about giving and about charity and about the nonprofit sector, are actually undermining the causes we love, and our profound yearning to change the world.
It could create a landscape of rival warlords undermining rule of law and civil society.
There are ties of fraternity that bond us together, and if we destroy these bonds by undermining the standards, the security, the manner of behavior, that nations and citizens all around the world expect us to abide by.
Low body confidence is undermining academic achievement.
Similarly, the economic sphere has been colonizing and cannibalizing the political sphere to such an extent that it is undermining itself, causing economic crisis.
Intercellular communication also slows, ultimately undermining the body's functional ability.
Economic growth is important, but that economic growth must not come from undermining our unique culture or our pristine environment.
But corporations understandably act to promote their commercial interests, and they do so either sometimes undermining or promoting the common good.
There, artists and authors worked under strict censorship, subject to imprisonment, exile, or execution if they were seen as undermining state ideology.
They'll do whatever it takes to survive, even if that means undermining other people.
And I want you imagine that at some point in history a group of powerful people invested in owning and controlling the world understood that the suppression of this particular cell, the oppression of these cells, the reinterpretation of these cells, the undermining of these cells, getting us to believe in the weakness of these cells and the crushing, eradicating, destroying, reducing these cells, basically began the process of killing off the girl cell, which was, by the way, patriarchy.
At that time, I noticed that corruption, that grand corruption, that systematic corruption, was undermining everything we were trying to do.
So, as we are climbing the tree, some of the things that we're doing in order to climb the tree are actually undermining the tree's very root.
They are radically expanding our notions of the potential of an aesthetic vocabulary, while they are challenging and undermining the cultural autonomy of our traditional institutions.
Add to this undermining the Constitution itself by having only Communists invoke the Bill of Rights.
Silverstone is appealing and successful in carving out an interesting young woman here, despite the picture's kitschy undermining.
The scene on stage is awkwardly rushed, undermining its erotic power (understandable given the constraints of film-time, but still this could have been edited to much better effect.)
I found that the plot of the 1997 version was more understandable and had basically kept true to the original without undermining the meaning of the 1971 version.
The film does a good job of demonstrating the dignity of these native peoples and undermining the racist myths about them.
Dissent, yes; undermining our country during these times is really ridiculous!
In this age of yob culture, it is (albeit in a small way) showing the decent kids just how not to behave, and she is undermining all the efforts to curtail bad manners and behaviour.
Living high on success while fancying himself a political entrepreneur, he's about to close a lucrative partnership deal with the Yanks when the Irish Republican Army, bent on revenge, begins eliminating operatives from his "organization", undermining his reputation.
Awful(and I mean AWFUL)horror flick using Native American folklore and undermining it for unintentional laughs is an embarrassing statement about Tony Curtis' career(this is the same actor who starred in SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS & SOME LIKE IT HOT).
The only negative about this is that the film is in many ways about race prejudice and you wonder if maybe casting an Anglo in such a role that it might be undermining the central message.
Frank (Jimmy O'Brien) sees a calling as a stand up comic, but a mix of stage fright and overwhelming domestic problems, put him in a trance, undermining a "true" escape from his downward spiraling Life.
When I heard the tune, I remembered the scene in "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" where Daffy Duck and Donald Duck are playing that song and keep undermining each other's performances.
The film isn't melodramatic, thankfully; it's brave, it has a thoughtful, melancholy undermining, and the gay theme is served well (only some of the dialogue dates it).
I'm not sure if this is suppose to be related to the audiences the films are produced for, because if so, they are undermining these moviegoers.
The monetary authorities are then confronted with a harsh choice between violating their announced target, and thus undermining the credibility that was the point of the exercise, or setting policy too tight or too loose, thus doing unnecessary damage to the economy.
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