Vast wealth has temptations which fatally and surely undermine the moral structure of persons not habituated to its possession.
Raising a major issue like the final status of the settlements, which is arguably the most difficult of the issues to be resolved, would surely undermine this gradual process.
This surely undermines Plato's ideal of government by knowledge and wisdom.
But the merest suggestion that I have been anything but the good and faithful servant he believes me to be, will surely undermine my position.
One aspect of Britain's opting out of the social charter is that it must surely undermine the single market.
An Internet of chaos may meet a utopian vision but surely undermines the societal values of safe and secure families and job and revenue-creating commerce.
But that now surely undermines your overall point that the "sources cited by Ruth Lea are entirely mainstream"?!
To do so would surely undermine his complex position of counselor with them.
The political nature of the project will also surely undermine the position of the Central Bank and make democratic accountability harder to achieve.
A hostile American policy toward China would surely undermine the constructive forces now at work in the People's Republic.