A distinguished American, who is a consistent friend of England,[377] in a review article affirmed that the proposed League of Nations is slowly undermining the Anglo-American Entente.
It suggests how some blight has been at work in our Foreign Office for years steadily undermining our mastery of the sea.
They formed, in all probability, in the days of the old coast line, a white shelly beach, under such a precipitous front of the dark clay as argillaceous deposits almost always present to the underminingwear of the waves.
She well remembered my master, and another Cromarty man who had been grievously injured, when undermining an old building, by the sudden fall of the erection; but she could bethink her of no third Cromarty man whatever.
However, she sent to Balfour a civil message, and bade him go on undermining Morton, in which he succeeded, in the following year.
The 'undermining and' are words added by Lennox himself to the MS.
No explosion had been arranged, though some of the earlier indictments drawn up by Lennox for the prosecution declare that this was the case: 'The place was already prepared with [undermining and] trains of powder therein.
With these formidable implements they beset the house, at that time occupied only by Margaret Paston and twelve other persons; and having broken open the outer gates, they set to work undermining the very chamber in which Margaret was.
If you see table and balls idle, deceitful comrades are undermining you{.
To dream that your corns hurt your feet, denotes that some enemies are undermining you, and you will have much distress; but if you succeed in clearing your feet of corns, you will inherit a large estate from some unknown source.
To dream of seeing a lynx, enemies are undermining your business and disrupting your home affairs.
If you hear groans in your dream, decide quickly on your course, for enemies are undermining your business.
Maklakoff, the Home Minister, for his persistent disregard of the representative institutions of the Empire, thereby "undermining the welfare and safety of the State.
This evil was rapidly undermining the whole ecclesiastical edifice, and it required a hero of prodigious genius, energy, and influence to reform it.
It appealed to the highest form of self-sacrifice; it arrayed itself against a vice which was undermining society.
His hostility to Abelard was direful, since he looked upon him as undermining Christianity and extinguishing faith in the world.
Hildebrand saw and lamented the countless evils of the day, especially those which were loosening the bands of clerical obedience, and undermining the absolutism which had become the great necessity of his age.
It was not only undermining his throne, but was secularizing the Church and destroying the real power of the clergy.
They have now succeeded in undermining the friendship between Uncle Sam and the Deutsche Michel.
In submarine warfare the Germans may be superior to the British, but in undermining the latter are superior to the former.
The distress of heart that he felt in beholding the afflicting change in a companion so justly dear to him, conspiring with his constitutional melancholy, was gradually undermining the exquisite faculties of his mind.
The unbalanced condition of Joanna, upon whom rested all her hopes, was undermining her health.
At the opening of 1644 Charles had devised a scheme for undermining the authority of the Parliament, namely, by issuing a proclamation for its extinction.
The only traces of deterioration are in the statues at the base of the column, which has been produced by the humidity undermining the parts most in relief, or nearest to the ground.
In the next place, it will be necessary to explain the origin of error, which is ever opposing science, often imperceptibly deluding or undermining and destroying our convictions.
By such arbitrary and violent proceedings, however, he is himself underminingthe very foundation of his own power.
Sometimes they used them for underminingthe walls.
The firm sea-bed is levelled by small rubble for receiving the large blocks, whose outer toe is protected from undermining by a layer of big blocks of stone extending out for a width of 50 ft.
Loss of sleep, soroche, and lack of appetite were rapidly undermining our endurance.
The builders wanted the wall to seem to be built entirely of adobe, yet, had the great clay wall rested on the ground, floods and erosion might have succeeded in undermining it.
I have already caught two or three of these dark undermining Vermin, and intend to make a String of them, in order to hang them up in one of my Papers, as an Example to all such voluntary Moles.
Many a child grows thin and wan and continues to waste away, the parents little dreaming that the slow consumption of the red corpuscles of the blood is the cause which is undermining the health.
Statistics show that it is very prevalent, undermining the health of women and corrupting the morals of society.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "undermining" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
