6 sentences with 'undermining'
Example sentences and phrases with the word undermining and other words derived from it.
• « Environmental disaster may therefore have played a key role in undermining the political stability of entire regions at that time. »
• « In turn, the remaining polytheists blamed Christians for undermining the worship of the gods who had presided over the Empire while Rome was great. »
• « The rituals were carefully organised not only to represent deference to Louis XIV, but to emphasise the hierarchy of ranks among the nobles themselves, undermining their unity and forcing them to discuss their favour. »
• « Among almost all these nobles there was considerable contempt for merchants, who were often seen as parasites undermining good Christian morals and the proper order of society. »
• « Likewise, with his armies Napoleon "exported" the Revolution to the rest of Europe, undermining the power of the traditional nobility and instituting a code of laws based on the principle of legal equality. »
• « In short, while the Ottoman Empire suffered its fair share of internal problems, European imperialism played the most important role in undermining its sovereignty and coherence until it finally collapsed in the First World War. »