His equivocations have deeply undermined his reputation among Israelis.

The oil-for-food program scandal has deeply undermined the reputation of Mr. Annan and brought calls from Republican lawmakers in Washington for his resignation.

The long-held assimilationist and non-Zionist view that Jews could live securely as minorities in European societies was deeply undermined, since Germany had been regarded previously as the country in which Jews had been most successfully integrated.

The great films noirs ("Kiss Me Deadly") and revisionist westerns ("The Searchers") suggest a culture deeply undermined by self-doubt.

By the time of Shaddam IV, while they were still formidable, their strength had been sapped by overconfidence, and the sustaining mystique of their warrior religion had been deeply undermined by cynicism.

The implosion of Communism has deeply undermined milder forms of redistributionism, and the stagnation of the social democratic countries in Europe has robbed liberals of any real alternative to Rubinomics.

The credibility of the king was deeply undermined and the abolition of the monarchy and the establishment of a republic became an ever increasing possibility.

But it is an unavoidable fact that the classic restrictions on the killing of women, children and Muslims in jihad have been deeply undermined in the last decade.

Erb, deeply undermined, sacked him and nearly broke with von Putlitz, but instead they agreed that he pass the winter season 1908 as leading lyric tenor for the brand new Theatre at Lübeck.

French group La Quadrature du Net went even further, saying that "the text's good opening principles are deeply undermined by copyright-related provisions calling for Internet actors to participate in an endless 'war on sharing' and granting them private police and justice missions."