31.   But that is the risk you run when a legacy of hate undermines every effort at goodwill.

32.   But the delays in test results, doctors say, are undermining efforts to provide better care for the infants.

33.   But the latter would place Hariri in conflict with UNESCO, undermining his efforts to secure international backing for reconstruction.

34.   But the U.S. attempt to accelerate the cutoff of market preferences, they argue, undermines such efforts.

35.   But the unwillingness of other teams to move undermined their effort.

36.   But their efforts were always undermined by the fact that the European Union is a trading giant and a military midget.

37.   But there are potentially large issues of channel conflict, aptly enough, that threaten to undermine the effort.

38.   But the strife was undermining efforts to get the program back on track, and no one was doing anything to fix it.

39.   Critics said that the rejection of this report is the latest example of the Bush administration undermining international efforts to combat emissions of greenhouse gases.

40.   Cummings said that Maryland had made strides in race relations and he feared that state sanction of the Confederate emblem would undermine the efforts.