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The power of truth-telling that year created a dazzling sense of possibility, for it proved the undoing of one of history’s most recalcitrant hegemonies: Soviet domination of Eastern Europe.
True understanding in human affairs requires a patient identification and undoing of those facets of our implicit assumptions that distort the reality of "the other."
But now, US President Donald Trump’s latest dose of import tariffs could push the world into a full-blown trade war, undoing much of that progress.
Hatoyama’s inept handling of key national security issues played a key role in his undoing.
Now Hong Kong itself is undoing the system.
Before, Prime Minister Kostov and his government could boast of successes in undoing the ruinous policies of the previous socialist government.
That overreach began Argentina's undoing.
Regulation and taxation, spearheaded by Vestager, will be their undoing.
But Bannon’s role as genius-without-portfolio – in which Trump indulged him, until Kelly arrived and clarified chains of command – was his undoing.
Royal’s lack of program has been her strength, but it could yet be her undoing.
But success presents Uribe with a new set of challenges that risk undoing most of his achievements.
So Meciar pounced, denouncing the "Hungarian menace," undoing in a stroke four years of hard work by Slovakia's current government to integrate representatives of the ethnic Hungarian minority into Slovakia's government.
In most cases, hubris – a sense of invincibility fed by uncontested power – was their undoing.
On the environmental front, Rouhani is also busy undoing his predecessor’s damage.
Rather, it will be in undoing Rousseau’s social “cannibalism.”
Macri’s task is to address the external and fiscal imbalances and reduce inflation, without undoing what has been achieved.
Undoing the damage will not be easy, especially with the COVID-19 pandemic compounding America’s problems.
Napoleon’s imperial overreach was his undoing.
But Biden’s very likability might well be his electoral undoing.
In the real world, acquiring land, natural resources, and sea lanes could prove China’s undoing as a debt collector.
But a severe recession may be his undoing.
One side wanted to restore the old order; the other was desperate to fend off counterrevolution and the undoing of all the reforms since 1789.
In particular, Europe improved its pre-market support while undoing some of its post-market protection, which was increasingly unaffordable in an era of slow growth.
And now the bugle plays a lively air as the coach rattles through the ill-paved streets of a country town; and the coachman, undoing the buckle which keeps his ribands together, prepares to throw them off the moment he stops.
'Who's there?' cried Mr. Winkle, undoing the chain.
'The papers in Bardell and Pickwick,' replied Perker, undoing the knot with his teeth.
The boy had some slight difficulty in undoing the heavy iron gates, and we heard the hoarse roar of the doctor's voice and saw the fury with which he shook his clinched fists at him.
Learn then from this story not to fear the fruits of the past, but rather to be circumspect in the future, that those foul passions whereby our family has suffered so grievously may not again be loosed to our undoing.
Whether from love of form, or from curiosity, the marshals paid no attention to his expressions of reluctance, but unhelmed him by cutting the laces of his casque, and undoing the fastening of his gorget.
But although no man with less scruple made his ordinary habits and feelings bend to his interest, it was the misfortune of this Prince, that his levity and petulance were perpetually breaking out, and undoing all that had been gained by his previous dissimulation.
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