Word: undercutting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
With their aid, Mao created the Red Guards to undercut his opponents...
...Britain's foreign creditors, who have put up more than $3 billion to defend the pound. For if Wilson cannot hold down wage increases in a period when his other taxation and monetary measures are taking hold, all credibility in the value of the pound will be undercut; British export costs, swollen by excessive wage gains, will rise, slowing foreign sales of everything from cars and gin to razor blades and woolens. Particularly because his is a Labor government, Wilson's ability to rein in wage demands is almost the litmus test of his ability...
...spilled out in a stream of consciousness that followed no clearly defined course but swirled into moments of great beauty. What Nureyev's flights of fancy lacked was strong musical accompaniment. Hans Werner Henze's complex score was dense without being deep, an anemic, meandering work that undercut rather than underscored the choreography. Nureyev was forced to keep one foot in the classical past while trying to step into the future with the other. It was enough to make a schizo of a choreographer, let alone a Tancredi...
Thus last week Indonesia's military seized the initiative in ending the costly demiwar with its neighbor. The mission to Malaysia, which had been kept secret in Djakarta, further undercut President Sukarno's already weakened position. Sukarno had apparently hoped to persuade the military to reverse the policy of Foreign Minister Adam Malik, who has been openly demanding an end to konfrontasi. But the fact that the "Crush Malaysia" commanders themselves undertook an independent peace mission seemed to demolish that hope. The military's action, in fact, buttresses Malik's position as he leaves this week...
...Nazi archives, when taken at face value, tend to undercut this rationale. Nazi diplomats kept reporting back home that Pius had "affection" and "respect" for the German people. Shortly before the fall of France, Diego von Bergen, the German Ambassador to the Vatican, wrote to Berlin that high-placed officials of the Holy See had assured him that they wanted the Allies to accept a negotiated peace on the Western front. In August 1943, the new German Ambassador to the Vatican, Baron Ernst von Weizsacker, told Berlin that in Rome, "Bolshevism is the greatest cause of concern." Friedlander is aware...