undermined

Example Sentences

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Undermined by suspicions that he was too brittle to succeed at the highest level, he made a difficult choice.

From The Guardian • Apr. 1, 2013

Undermined by a property market crash, Spain's banks drove the country to seek just over 40 billion euros from its European partners last year to help clean up its financial sector.

From Reuters • Feb. 28, 2013

Undermined, naturally, was their incentive to invest, especially to push network switches closer to residential neighborhoods, the secret to getting cable-like speeds from the old copper phone network.

From Washington Post • May 9, 2012

Oversight Undermined Race officials have always done their best to hide fatal breakdowns, erecting screens around fallen horses and then refusing to disclose the tracks’ accident rates.

From New York Times • Mar. 24, 2012

Undermined by the high spring tides, rocks had fallen from above, and now lay thickly strewn about the beach, as if tossed there by the sea in angry or sportive mood.

From Daisy Burns (Volume 2) by Kavanagh, Julia