With a looming election in Germany, few wish to undermine Chancellor Angela Merkel s likely victory.

That amounted to a major economic jolt and was likely to undermine their efforts to achieve sustainable development.

For this reason, the US is likely to press India not to contemplate forceful retaliation that could undermine America s objectives in Afghanistan.

Both sides should renew their efforts to implement the commitments made at Sharm el Sheikh and avoid any action likely to undermine mutual confidence.

Should the elections be postponed for any length of time, a major crisis of confidence is likely to arise and further undermine the country's stability.

How to Undermine an Alliance

Nuclear Steps Undermine Peace

Current economic trends threaten to undermine any progress made.

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

If not, these forces will work to undermine the state.

It plays the same game in Transdniestria to undermine Moldova.

Such a scheme would likely be met with some resistance, with mobile phone producers arguing that, by increasing the cost of their products, the deposit system could undermine demand, especially from poorer customers purchasing cheap phones.

Moreover, containment would undermine India s energy interests.

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

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

The euro s rapid appreciation against the dollar threatens to undermine this foundation.

The proposed text of draft article 3 seemed to undermine that approach.

Insufficient attention to rural development continues to undermine poverty reduction efforts in the subregion.

Whatever actions are taken to confront Hamas will undermine the Palestinian national project.

Adolf Hitler used the principle to undermine fragile states in the 1930 s.

Failure to share resources and coordinate policy would seriously undermine Europe s security interests.

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

This in turn can undermine public confidence and trust.

As fiscal metrics become increasingly intricate, monitoring efforts will become ever easier to undermine.

The first factor to undermine the pursuit of growth was concern about its sustainability.

Poor 2012 corporate financial results will further undermine credit ratings.

Hard and soft power can reinforce or undermine each other.

Clearly, a self determination movement could also undermine territorial integrity.

Such situations invariably undermine the objective of promoting sustainable security.

Imposing further restrictions on AHD would undermine their military utilities.

Yet there is much more that EU leaders can do to undermine the regime economically.

To ignore those commitments would undermine the credibility and reliability of the international negotiating process.

This is likely to continue.

That seems likely to continue.

China s leaders, unwilling to compromise on any issue that might undermine their domestic goals, continue to resist.

They allow the White House to argue that it means to undermine Iran s leadership, not its people.

But this logic failed to account for the political ramifications, which threaten to undermine European unity further.

The European Union portrayed mercenaries seeking to undermine Cuba's right to self determination, as human rights defenders.

Illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing continues to seriously undermine the contribution of responsible fisheries to sustainable development.

Vector control programmes continue to face significant resource constraints, which tend to undermine the quality of interventions.

I also appeal to Ethiopia to lift all such restrictions, as they undermine the Mission's operational capability.

Arms exporting States had a responsibility to ensure that their exports were not misused to undermine security.

Children born poor are likely to remain poor children born into affluence are likely to be affluent adults.

They are also less likely to be self employed and half as likely as men to be employers.

Regulation without redistribution could undermine the EU's legitimacy among the newcomers.