1.   That decision was designed to prevent companies from undermining union negotiations by buying off employees.

2.   The death of the bill might also prove politically damaging to Giuliani, since Democrats would try to portray him as having single-handedly undermined the negotiations.

3.   There is always the threat that extremists from both sides will attempt to undermine the negotiations by carrying out terrorist attacks.

4.   They said that Beard violated a part of his union membership agreement that barred him from undermining union negotiations or harming fellow Teamsters.

5.   This bill will not undermine negotiations.

6.   U.S.-Chinese talks aimed at shutting down the pirates collapsed last Saturday in Beijing, with both sides accusing the other of undermining the negotiations.

7.   But Cerpa said the government has gone out of its way to undermine negotiations.

8.   In Jerusalem, Israeli leaders warned that the escalating violence in south Lebanon is undermining peace negotiations between Israel and Syria, the undisputed power in Lebanon.

9.   In the past, such attacks have undermined negotiations.

10.   In the Yugoslav capital, Goran Matic, a government minister who is close to Milosevic, accused NATO of trying to undermine peace negotiations.