The notion that Liu might be capable of subverting the immense power of the Communist Party of China is patently absurd.

Yet the Commission's capacity to perform its tasks has been increasingly undermined by its declining credibility and professionalism.

Rapid environmental change associated with insecurity and losses of livelihoods undermine the resilience of societies and increase their vulnerability.

Those inept comments fatally undercut the government s summoning of the Chinese ambassador to demand a return to the status quo ante.

The spread of information means that informal networks are undercutting the monopoly of traditional bureaucracy, with all governments less able to control their agendas.

The recent downturn in France s industrial output has created large trade deficits, and is undermining the competitiveness of small and medium size enterprises.

Such political dysfunction has undermined the responsiveness of other policymaking entities, including those that possess better tools than central banks.

At the very least, the combination of higher interest rates in the shadow banking sector and weaker nominal GDP growth undermines borrowers debt repayment capacity.

This approach contributes to climate change, interrupts hydrological cycles, and causes soil degradation, all of which undermine our planet s ability to produce food in the long term.

However, the remaining potential of MRC to undermine tangible progress in stabilizing Ituri remains of concern, particularly given the Transitional Government's incapacity so far to bring armed group leaders to justice and to prevent their movement into and from Uganda.

Tension, and at times open confrontation, between a modernizing elite and ordinary people regarding the nature, function, and design of the state undermined the very capacity to govern.

Since 2001, unit labor costs have been growing faster than real GDP and employment, undermining the economy s competitiveness vis à vis developing countries.

In recent years, the central government has tightened its control over the banking sector, undermining the financial system s development, not least by impeding banks ability to assess credit risk.

In other words, the boundaries of government action have narrowed tremendously in the face of strong financial markets, with their power to destabilize any government act deemed inconvenient.

Not only does this severely undermine the ability of small firms to compete, but it also contributes to systemic instability of the type that we experienced in 2008, thus increasing the likelihood that taxpayers will have to step in.

In an era of globalization, actors outside the realm of the State had entered the stage of politics and undermined the State's capacity to comply with its due diligence obligation, while creating a vacuum in legislation for the protection of women.

The problem undermining society in her view is feminized men .

The notion that Liu might be capable of subverting the immense power of the Communist Party of China is patently absurd. And yet the authorities clearly believe that they had to make an example of him, to prevent others from expressing similar views.

But it should also worry about meltdown risk about the danger that its own failure to act, by leading to a deep recession, will undermine political leaders ability to take the steps needed to put their economies on a sound footing.

This undermined Khatami s authority even further.

Yet he was jailed for inciting subversion of state power.

But Griesa s ruling undercuts prospects for cooperation.

The bomb was trying to undermine the stability of the Syrian government it must be the Americans

This in turn can undermine public confidence and trust.

(e) To ensure that the conditions of pre trial detention do not undermine the fairness of the trial

(e) To ensure that the conditions of pre trial detention do not undermine the fairness of the trial

The failure to supply reports will only serve to undermine the Committee's efforts.

Of course, a common EU security strategy is not meant to undermine the rights of individual member states to choose their internal energy policies. But collective energy security requires increasing the EU s ability to face and face down external energy challenges.

Even today, Europe s military weakness is working to undermine the transatlantic relationship.

With that, Hezbollah threw away its political position in Lebanon.

The politics of greed and grievance replace more far sighted policymaking.

Such situations invariably undermine the objective of promoting sustainable security.

The danger of undermining the NPT regime also exists outside the framework.

The whole exclusion simply undermines the multilateral trading system.

But foreign aid also undermines the development of local state capacity.

Meanwhile, high domestic borrowing costs are undermining private investment.

Yet there remains a danger that this positive progress can still be undermined.

Taylor has undermined a string of peacekeeping interventions in the region.

All of them can undermine States as the basic unit of the international system.

The scale and proliferation of these activities undermine development, the rule of law and effective governance.

Terrorism seeks to destroy our way of life and to undermine freedom, democracy and the rule of law.

Worldwide broadcasts of the beating and killing of protesters have undermined the regime s religious credentials.

To Hamas, however, they appear to undermine its very raison d'etre.

Hard and soft power can reinforce or undermine each other.

Those weapons have helped to prolong conflicts and to undermine stability, social peace and security.