This extra extension will prevent rainwater from undercutting the slab during heavy storms.

Such cooperation is relatively new for an industry where operators think nothing of brutally undercutting rivals to win subscribers.

They keep undercutting the hills to make more house sites, and the hills keep falling.

No Undercutting Allowed The other example involves the drafting of the budget for the next fiscal year.

These subsidies also depress commodity prices, undercutting the ability of developing nations to compete in world markets and get their nations off the dole.

Awe-inspiringly great ...if you're willing to do the work, make the sacrifices and stop undercutting yourself.

Nothing in Mr. Thomas's book is quite this smooth, as his sardonic irony keeps undercutting the simple readings we might want to impose.

"We have chosen not to establish minimum threshold levels for price concessions because doing so could have the unintended effect of undercutting market competition," it said.

He wrote, "Sherlock is a triumph, witty and knowing, without ever undercutting the flair and dazzle of the original.

Now, however, as it nears the end of its current term, the City Council threatens to weaken the system by undercutting the Campaign Finance Board.

This has led to fears that cheaper, illegal eggs, particularly liquid egg products, from non-compliant states will flood the market undercutting compliant egg producers.

This paradigm of undercutting the spreadsheet market leader would be adopted by Borland's Quattro Pro (which was not released until 1990).

The firm is five years old, and suffered with the rest of the city's management firms from undercutting competition, losing accounts to low bidders who also had sales offices.

The decision was a significant blow to the C.I.A, and Mr. Holder said he would be criticized for undercutting the intelligence agency's work.

Compaq Computer, now part of Hewlett-Packard, left Toshiba and other Japanese manufacturers reeling by severely undercutting them on price.

Just as the savings and loan scandal awakens the public to the costs of fraud, some members of Congress propose undercutting the country's most sweeping civil fraud law.

Moreover, the company, a general producer of software that is based in Cambridge, Mass., is best known in the industry for its tactic of undercutting competitors on pricing.

As cash-desperate airlines crank up promotion after promotion to fill empty seats, they are sometimes "undercutting negotiated corporate rates," including those for international business-class fares, he said.

This section includes the 33 km-long Koralm Tunnel undercutting the Koralpe, an up to 2000 m high mountain range separating Southern Styria and Eastern Carinthia.

To encourage hair to spring from the head and to make it less heavy, Scherbaum employs a technique that is called undercutting, in which a few pieces beneath the uppermost layers are cut quite short.

In a move that is undercutting efforts to stem the spread of arms, Russia is selling missile-guidance technology, rocket engines and other advanced weapons systems to China, its onetime adversary, American officials say.

Britain's unpredictable climate cannot take all the blame - Blacks has been under unrelenting pressure over the past few years, with internet traders, supermarkets and rivals such as Sports Direct all undercutting it.

After decades of opposition toward immigrants, the A.F.L.-C.I.O. now backs a legalization plan as a way to recruit new members and to prevent illegal immigrants from undercutting American wages.

When Time accused Mr. Davies of undercutting Gen. Douglas MacArthur by warning of Chinese intervention in Korea, Mr. Kennan wrote an angry rebuttal.

"Is the secretary going to be undercut for having been right?"

You did a good job of undercutting her just now.

It was decided not to do anything further to undercut him just then.

And some in Congress are trying to undercut the operation.

For years, the newspapers have tried to undercut each other.

Neither man should want to undercut the system in this way.

"To do that would be to undercut my ability to work through this."

And if so, will they undercut other values more important than truth?

In the first place, it undercut the power of the rich.

"I would not in any way undercut her personal experience, because she's obviously had a bad time," she said.

But defense lawyers said there were ways to undercut its value.

"But the essay undercut those who wanted such a result."

By undercutting his prices, I could put him out of business.

It can undercut the action or deliver home a key moment.

Where I'm being betrayed or undercut by my own people?

As good business practice you should never undercut your retailer.

"There will always be someone willing to come around and undercut you," he said.

Though perhaps she could use the power of her tool to undercut it.

If they just look for the logo, it could undercut public policy.

They warned us at the time that this would undercut them.

And as a result, a person might have made the move to get treatment, but someone around them is undercutting their efforts.

But it has undercut both through its growing involvement with the military.

At times, he has been undercut by others in the executive branch.

But investment banks love nothing more than to undercut one another.

"In the minds of our students, it undercut what we were trying to say."