The appeal to religious based opposition is an attempt to undercut the traditional clan based system.

Fourthly, the creation of six new permanent seats would also seriously undercut the effectiveness of the Security Council.

No country was immune from transnational crime, which undercut any prospects for stable and economically viable societies and also jeopardized peace and security, human rights and the rule of law.

In short, specific terrorist threats should be fought through narrowly targeted counter terrorist operations, while moderates should undercut extremism through the politics of compromise rather than the false and dangerous delusions of military victory.

Don t the farm subsidies and other forms of support in the United States and European Union undercut the livelihood of millions of poor farmers? Wouldn t phasing them out make a big dent in world poverty?

Although some persons directly involved in the illicit treatment of these detainees have been prosecuted as required by the Geneva Conventions, their actions have undercut years of efforts to establish effective international safeguards on the treatment of wartime detainees.

One of the earliest forms of cooperation between sovereign States in law enforcement involved efforts to control piracy on the high seas, but those measures were often undercut in some countries by the practice of chartering freelance privateers to harass their rivals.3.

British officials found the peer reviewed estimate completely meaningless, and, along with Belgium, Norway, Japan, and the US, wanted it rewritten or stricken. One academic speculated that governments possibly felt a little embarrassed that their previous exaggerated claims would be undercut by the UN.

The benefits to the host countries are easy to see Economic migrants often work harder for less money than locals. This is not in everyone s interest, to be sure Pointing out the benefits of cheap labor will not persuade people whose wages might be undercut.

The same is true of cosmopolitanism versus insularity. We may admire leaders who make efforts to increase their followers sense of moral duties beyond borders but it does little good to hold leaders to an impossible standard that would undercut their capacity to remain leaders.

Emmerson s report drew on figures supplied by Pakistan s foreign ministry, but it was promptly undercut by the country s defense ministry, which issued its own figures indicating that only 67 of the 2,227 people killed by drone attacks since 2008 were civilians. That low number surprised many observers.

With the first two requirements dependent on Italy s turbulent domestic politics, investors are increasingly unwilling to bet on the relatively favorable scenario, which means that Italy does not have time. Rising yields could undercut the fiscal stabilization and economic growth program before it can be fully implemented.

Peru s recent actions have severely undercut its ability to act as a global climate leader, to everyone s detriment. Only with a new strategy based on economic diversification and investment in renewable energy can Peru achieve stable, inclusive, long term prosperity and make a real contribution to mitigating climate change.

Suspending the ICC s work in this way would undermine its potential for deterrence, one of the purposes for which it was established. Postponing the case against al Bashir would seriously undercut the important principle which has gradually been taking root worldwide that no one is above the law.

President Barack Obama s recent speech on the Middle East is a further display of America s declining influence in the region. The speech drew the most attention for calling on Israel to return to its 1967 borders, but the effect was undercut when Israel flatly rejected the US position.

Suspending the ICC s work in this way would undermine its potential for deterrence, one of the purposes for which it was established. Postponing the case against al Bashir would seriously undercut the important principle which has gradually been taking root worldwide that no one is above the law.

The efficiency of the initial American military invasion of Iraq in 2003 created admiration in the eyes of some foreigners. But this soft power was undercut by the inefficiency of the occupation, the mistreatment of prisoners at Abu Ghraib, and the policy initiated by Rumsfeld of detainment without hearings at Guantánamo.

With global demand weak, the eurozone as a whole cannot rely on exports to grow out of its debts. For struggling southern European economies whose traditional exports have been undercut by Chinese and Turkish competition, the solution is to invest in moving up the value chain by producing new and better products.

Another development is the increasing tendency of military generals to speak out of turn on strategic issues and undercut diplomatic strategy. The simple truth is that the foreign ministry is the Chinese government s weakest branch, often overruled or simply ignored by the security establishment, which is ever ready to upstage even the Party.

So President George W. Bush could quietly tell Abe that we welcome good relations between Japan and China, and that prime ministerial visits to the Yasukuni Shrine undercut Japan s own interests in East Asia. It reminds Asians of the repulsive Japan of the 1930 s rather than the attractive Japan of today.

Another development is the increasing tendency of military generals to speak out of turn on strategic issues and undercut diplomatic strategy. The simple truth is that the foreign ministry is the Chinese government s weakest branch, often overruled or simply ignored by the security establishment, which is ever ready to upstage even the Party. nbsp

Sometimes leaders need to stretch the boundaries of realism to inspire their followers and call forth extra effort, as Winston Churchill did in Great Britain in 1940. But, without a degree of prudence based upon comprehension of the context, visions turn from grand to grandiose and undercut the values that they seek to promote.

Only one remains at all credible the need to transform the Middle East through democratization and thereby undercut support for terrorists. But does this argument really have any more basis in reality than the administration s previous claims of an imminent threat from weapons of mass destruction or Saddam Hussein s alleged support for al Qaeda?

Indeed, the domestic crackdown on human rights activists undercut the soft power gains of the 2008 Beijing Olympics. And the benefits of the 2009 Shanghai Expo were rapidly undermined by the jailing of Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo and the television screens around the world broadcasting scenes of an empty chair at the Oslo ceremonies.

Those who advocate leaving globalization exclusively in the hands of the private sector may resent the idea of vesting tax raising authority in a global agency. But they cannot fail to notice that the processes they support undercut their own position by rendering the wealth gap more obvious and the fairness of the actual global distribution more questionable.

But getting to 2030 without a major confrontation will be a major achievement. While the US is likely to maintain the upper hand in terms of military power for at least another 15 20 years, asymmetric warfare could undercut America s advantage should China engage in cyber attacks on US electronic and satellite systems, along with attacks on infrastructure.

Authoritarian regimes and many developing countries believe that their approach to sovereignty, security, and development would benefit from the multilateral processes that the ITU employs. But democratic governments fear that these processes are too cumbersome, and would undercut the flexibility of the multi stakeholder approach, which stresses the involvement of the private and non profit sectors, as well as governments.

To be sure, America s presence in Afghanistan has spawned important regional linkages unfortunately, they are not the kind that support economic renewal. The last decade of war and lawlessness has facilitated the Taliban s proliferation across Pakistan and Afghanistan, leading the Taliban to consider itself an indefatigable force a belief that could lead its leaders to undercut any progress toward stability.

There is, however, a final risk factor. The type of determined intervention designed to prevent the run up in bond yields may not be forthcoming, owing to a concern within the eurozone core, led by Germany, that unconditional, aggressive action by a lender of last resort would undercut the incentive and hence the political will to undertake the required reforms.

For example, the UK and the US may be adopting approaches that differ with respect to protecting commercial banks from more speculative, proprietary trading, but the policy concerns are broadly similar and may not be so pressing elsewhere, where banking traditions are different and trading is more restrained. But other jurisdictions should not act to undercut the restrictions imposed by home authorities.

The problem is that unless there is a viable opposition, the only check on the AKP will be its own conscience and a crackdown by the still secular oriented armed forces. But, as part of its seemingly endless effort to get into the European Union an aspiration that seems all but doomed at present Turkey implemented reforms that undercut the military s political role.

According to Rice, anything less than a residual force of 10,000 American troops will send the message that the US is not serious about helping to stabilize Afghanistan a message that would embolden Russian President Vladimir Putin further. What she does not seem to recognize is that America s deteriorating ties with Russia a key conduit for US military supplies to Afghanistan could undercut its basing strategy.

Thus, with supply side factors no longer driving global growth, we must reassess our expectations of what monetary and fiscal policies can achieve. If actual growth is already close to potential growth, then continuing the current fiscal and monetary stimulus will only create more bubbles, exacerbate sovereign debt problems, and, by reducing the pool of global savings available to finance private investment, undercut long term growth prospects.

And we know how to do that accommodative monetary policy fiscal adjustment in all advanced economies that includes concrete and realistic plans to reduce debt over the medium term, but does not undercut short term growth completing the banking sector cleanup and reforms to boost productivity and growth potential. All of this should be complemented by a rebalancing of global demand toward dynamic markets, including emerging economies.

Despite a long history of alliance dating back to the American Revolution and including two world wars, France has always had a somewhat ambivalent attitude toward the US, and the Iraq War was not the first time that a controversial security policy undercut America s attractiveness in France. Polls show similar reactions after the Suez Crisis of 1956, the Vietnam War in the late 1960 s and early 1970 s, and the deployment of intermediate range missiles in Europe in the early 1980 s.