Sabotage

Usage examples of undermine.

He never stopped alluding to their fate, determined to undermine any prospect of relief.

Robert Boyle, too, strongly advocated the biblical assertion that humans are made in the image of God, not nature, and this undermined the organic model of nature, which drew analogies between microcosm and macrocosm and between humans and the rest of creation.

Whether the monitory fox was anywhere within the precincts I do not know, but I missed him at that time, and attributed to his absence the lapse from virtue which undermined my previous resolution, and in a moment undid the merits of exemplary years.

That, Pickman said, was the kind of thing he had been talking about--an aperture of the network of tunnels that used to undermine the hill.

Earth Day 1970 caught polluters off guard, but over the next 30 years they mounted an increasingly sophisticated and aggressive counterattack to undermine these laws.

This protectionism hinders the spread of literacy, deprives the masses of much needed knowledge, discriminates against the poor, and, ultimately, undermines democracy - believes Hart.

If you dispose of the threat, you save the community, resolidify your leadership position, and undermine your detractors.

The evil genius, Sacripant, may be the first, as Iago is the greatest, of that school of villains whose treachery finds expression in the deliberate undermining of true love by forged proofs of infidelity.

Woolf at drinks parties as a drugs trafficker, to blacken his name and undermine any little campaign he might want to get going.

I witnessed the depths of turpitude in those who seek power and understood that, once the principle of birth is undermined, the disinterest that alone can assure good government is fatally compromised.

Hundreds of archaeological findings from the first century have been unearthed, and I was curious: did they undermine or undergird the eyewitness stories about Jesus?

I was curious: did they undermine or undergird the eyewitness stories about Jesus?

Rosicrucians, Cabalists, Hussites, Giordanistiheretics who for years had been undermining the power not only of the Habsburgs but of the Pope as wellset the tocsins ringing all over Europe.

It is true that Harry is often at odds with some of his teachers, but these particular teachers are not exactly admirable figures: they themselves are often at odds with the wise, benevolent, and powerful Headmaster, Albus Dumbledore, whom they sometimes attempt to undermine or outflank.

Once in the Bastile, he saw a good opportunity for working at the ruin of the monarchy, which he had been trying to undermine for so many years.