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63 examples of Undoing in a sentence

What if we could make energy do our work without working our undoing?
Efficiently used, it really can do our work without working our undoing.
And at that time, we knew that we were facing a knife-edge future where the technology we needed, the technology we loved, could also be our undoing.
I spent a lot of time undoing Richard Meier's aesthetic.
By undoing these changes, we can trace the language from the present day back to its ancient roots.
We're undoing that now, and they are so over it and so into their future.
Weak tale of an evil warlock who is searching for a centuries old satanic Bible so that he can do Lucifer's bidding by undoing creation.
Herein lies the film's undoing because its great and bold achievement in storytelling comes at the price of its own success.
Horrifying early on because of the seeming mean and self obsessed fellow tenants and horrifying later on as he develops his defences which will ultimately be his undoing.
He couldn't keep his fly zipped or his big mouth shut, either, both of which proved to be his undoing.
Partridge"), Jack Cassidy is at his 70's best in his role as "The Great Santini" - a secret ex-Nazi living under an assumed name in America and master magician whose silky arrogance and ego is his ultimate undoing.
However, her disdain for the Hollywood scene and her refusal to record the voice-over for her character for the movie THE CANARY MURDER CASE proved to be her undoing.
Ultimately he is his own undoing.
Kishi’s aim was to regain Japanese pride and sovereignty by revising the constitution and reviving old-fashioned patriotism, thus undoing some of the American educational reforms.
His administration needed to address the fiscal and external imbalances, without undoing the progress in social inclusion that had been made over the previous decade.
If Trump’s health secretary succeeds in undoing the careful balancing act that underlies Obamacare, either costs will rise or services will deteriorate – most likely both.
But as the storm clouds gather in the coming year, the political coalition that put Bush in power will stifle progress in undoing the fiscal mess.
In that sense, economic success in China or India may be those states’ undoing, as middle-class political aspirations render current arrangements dysfunctional.
Having emerged from the position of the sick man of Europe only a decade ago, Germany is now willfully, if thoughtlessly, undoing the reforms that had so strengthened its economy.
Angela Merkel’s TragedyBERLIN – What we care about most is often our undoing.
The fate of the Conoco deal underscores the challenges implicit in undoing a policy that has hardened into place.
Libya’s Shadow on Sovereign Wealth FundsNEW YORK – As Libya’s citizens rebuild their lives and economy, undoing the corruption in the Libyan Investment Authority (LIA), the sovereign wealth fund in which Muammar el-Qaddafi’s regime allegedly stashed and misused Libya’s oil wealth, is becoming a priority.
The weight of evidence indicates that the cost of undoing the mistake of pushing unemployment down too far is itself very low, at least for countries like the US, where the relationship has been carefully studied.
But his rejection of pluralism and pursuit of an Islamic dictatorship, exemplified by his efforts to centralize power in the hands of the Brothers and place himself beyond the review of Egypt’s judiciary, proved to be his undoing.
Insistence on it in 2000 at Camp David and Taba made clear to most Israelis that what the Palestinians have in mind is not undoing the consequences of the Six Day War in 1967.
As it is, even Roman Abramovich’s Sibneft – potentially the most vulnerable company due to its oligarch ownership and its use of the same tax minimization schemes that were the undoing of Yukos – merely faces a preliminary claim for back taxes.
Ultimately, Pentheus’s rigidity – his attempt to suppress, rather than understand or adapt to, the emotions inflamed by the passionate and unconventional Dionysus – proves to be his undoing.
Contrary to the pessimists who have long been wrong about looming threats to China’s GDP growth, I suspect that China’s ultimate undoing could actually be its hukou (household registration) system.
But in the second round, fear was Le Pen’s undoing.
Tanks did not roll, the undoing of communism proceeded apace and in peace, extending ultimately into Russia.
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