Word: undercutting
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Garcetti will not concede that opening the case on domestic violence may have undercut the impact of later evidence. "I've been analogizing where we are today on domestic violence to where we were 15 years ago on driving under the influence of alcohol. That behavior was tolerated back then just as domestic violence is too often tolerated today. I don't think we were too far out ahead of the curve on this issue. It was relevant.'' Garcetti acknowledges the criticism, about the vast resources poured into the Simpson case. "How can you justify 13 full-time prosecutors...
...whole, racial redistricting has undercut aggregate support for policies favored by Blacks on the floor of the House by concentrating voting strength in a few majority-Black districts. Moreover, the replacement of moderate Democrats by conservative Republicans and the shift to the right of other Democrats representing districts with white majorities has also decreased support for Black political goals...
...Kennedy School to prohibit all signs in the ARCO Forum. He announced, "I'll take the responsibility," and observed that there were no "advertisements for gas stations" hung on the wall, either. However, in overlooking the distinction between speech pertinent to political discourse and that which is not, Carnesale undercut the very dialogue that the Institute of Politics attempts to create...
...assertions that liberals are so quick to reject. First, they argue, the skeptics assume the New Testament was written long after the Crucifixion occurred, and so reflects the agenda and faith of the second generation of Christians, not events as experienced by the original apostles. That whole approach is undercut by the purported discovery announced in January of what would be the oldest manuscript of a Gospel, which dates to A.D. 70, when many eyewitnesses would have been around to protest any inaccuracies...
...State Department,TIME Miami bureau chief Cathy Boothreports. "It's Defense acting as a renegade department," a senior State official said after getting a phone call from a "livid" White House this morning. Booth says U.S. officials fear the release of such lists, compiled with dubious information, only undercut U.S. efforts in Haiti. Besides, she adds, such "hit lists" already abound in Haiti: "We're not going down these lists and warning people," a U.S. diplomat in Port-au-Prince told TIME today. "There are a lot of lists. Lists of 100. Lists of 30. Supposed lists. Real lists. Left...