Word: undercutting
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...front-runner Kerry, who holds a narrow lead in the polls, a lead due largely to the fact that just two years ago he ran a statewide campaign for lieutenant governor. Kerry, whose main political asset at this point is his high recognition, has persistently attempted, often unfairly, to undercut Shannon's record and has continued to reach for the moral high ground, a spot for which he is not well suited...
...front-runner Kerry, who holds a narrow lead in the polls, a lead due largely to the fact that just two years ago he ran a statewide campaign for lieutenant governor. Kerry, whose main political asset at this point is his high recognition, has persistently attempted, often unfairly, to undercut Shannon's record and has continued to reach for the moral high ground, a spot for which he is not well suited...
...revolutionary society will be a just one, while itself creating new forms of oppression. Those who aid such revolutions, it says, "betray the very poor they mean to help." The Vatican warns that radical theologians, by building Christian teaching around Marxist ideas like class struggle, distort the Bible, undercut morality and create divisions within the church...
...universally admired, to be sure. A modified "flat tax" on personal income, endorsed by the platform as "a most promising approach," would eliminate loopholes that allow many of the rich to evade taxes, and it would set a single rate of approximately 15% for all taxpayers. But it would undercut the premise of a progressive tax system, namely that citizens should pay taxes according to their ability to afford them...
...from his investigation and had accepted and passed to his superiors false information from Hoffman that De Lorean had a prior history of drug involvements. The prosecution conceded that Hoffman was a paid informer and an admitted perjurer. His claim that he had been approached by De Lorean was undercut by testimony that he had boasted to the Feds as early as 1982, "I'm going to get John De Lorean for you guys ... The problems he's got, I can get him to do anything I want...