11.   But an emotional response only undermines your position.

12.   Competition from newly arrived immigrants further undermined the position of former slaves.

13.   Conversely, if you ground your children, but allow them to attend team sporting events, he is not allowed to undermine your position.

14.   Paradoxically, it was the collapse of communism that began to undermine the position of Czech intellectuals.

15.   Republican lawmakers will be reluctant to undermine the position of their candidate, she said.

16.   Shapiro has accused Bailey of waging a campaign of press leaks to undermine his position with Simpson and enhance his own.

17.   They said this could be a difficult operation, should local armed groups decide that the improvements undermine their positions.

18.   What if, for example, you have an arch rival who seems bent on undermining your position?

19.   When the conference was planned last year, the IOC was alone in the field, but the bribery scandals have undermined its position.

20.   Why, you may ask, are we so against the owners in this fight and looking to undermine their position?