On the other hand, the practice of communism was gradually undermined.

Propaganda can gradually undermine prejudices and images in order to weaken them.

However, we constantly fear that international agreements serve to gradually undermine us, because the others, our opponents so to speak, are clever.

Many others, after a time, contract coal-miners asthma and consumption, which gradually undermine their health.

He did not try to deliver a "hit" or a knock-out impact, but to gradually undermine his opponents' credibility.

According to Fine, it gradually undermined Radoslav and cost him the loyalty of his people.

Synthesis of transuranics gradually undermined this point of view.

Otherwise, under the pretence of fighting corruption, democracy itself will be gradually undermined, and, frankly, I consider that equally, if not more, damaging.

Although this policy met with initial success, it gradually undermined the relative effectiveness of imperial bureaucracy by placing family connections over merit.

In the intervening years I allowed myself to be gradually undermined and finally succeeded in losing most outward traces of my cultural identity.