Sentences with 'undermines'
Example sentences and phrases with the word undermines and other words derived from it.
• « Many studies indicate that the pessimist's sense of helplessness undermines the body's natural defenses, the immune system. »
• « Even when German factories were crippled by Allied bombs, the war machine was held together by its enormous reliance on slavery. In short, it was not mere "slave labour" (a phrase that undermines the horror of the institution) that drove the Third Reich, it was slavery enforced through lethal violence. »
• « The emergence of de facto governments and authoritarian political movements undermines the basis on which a democratic system is founded: the freedom and dignity of human beings. »
• « Anderson, a devout Christian, recognised and explained in his account that one of the evils of slavery is the way it undermines the family. Anderson was not the only critic of slavery to make this point. »