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It flies in the face of decades of scientific and clinical evidence, the fact that this lawsuit can undercut something that we know that is extremely safe, extremely effective, and is one of the most accessible ways right now to get an abortion, I think, is absolutely terrifying. – Dana Johnson	Found on CNN 1 year ago
You want to undercut the panic and bring it back down to reasonable proportions. – David Carbonell	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I think to be a presidential candidate you can’t simply say, ‘I support the Constitution.’ You have to say, ‘I would oppose people who would undercut it,’ when you challenge the Constitution itself the way Trump has done, that is un-American. – John Bolton	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
China is willing to give Russia some tacit support politically, diplomatically and to some extent economically, but the bottom line is that it isn't going to go out of its way and undercut its other strategic objectives to support Russia. – Brian Hart	Found on CNN 1 year ago
In electoral terms, there is gain to be had from nationalist and other constituencies who want to see refugees return to Syria, PKK damaged, and the perceived U.S. project in Syria undercut. – Rich Outzen	Found on CNN 1 year ago
In this film, Buzz is the action hero. He's serious and ambitious and funny, but not in a goofy way that would undercut the drama. – Angus MacLane	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
One of our goals has been to limit Russia's ability to do something like this again, as Defense Lloyd Austin said. That's why we are arming the Ukrainians with weapons and equipment to defend themselves from Russian attacks, and it's why we are using sanctions and export controls that are directly targeted at Russia's defense industry to undercut Russia's economic and military power to threaten and attack its neighbors. – Lloyd Austin	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Keystone would have absolutely made a difference because it would have lowered the cost of Canadian crude to get to the markets that it needs to get to in order to be refined and shipped to be utilized here in the United States, and so by canceling Keystone, it artificially raises the price of Canadian oil and allows for the Russians to undercut that. – Jason Modglin	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
We have to proceed all of us, including Russia, based on the rules, based on norms, based on the commitments that we’ve each made and also avoid statements that undercut those. – Antony Blinken	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
They will have a lower cost than Verizon and so will be able to undercut on price. – Jonathan Chaplin	Found on Reuters 3 years ago
Turkey has not really gained all that much from this, as I said, but in the process has scrambled the entire northeast, undercut our efforts against ISIS and brought in the Russians and the Syrian regime forces in a way that is really tragic for everybody involved. – The US	Found on CNN 4 years ago
The point is the good economic news does help an incumbent, but other problems, policies and challenges can undercut that advantage, whereas in 1968 it was a war in Southeast Asia, today it is a political war over the meaning of this presidency. – Julian Zelizer	Found on CNN 4 years ago
He aims to diminish the appeal of the Western democratic model and attempts to undermine America's moral authority. His actions are designed not to challenge our arms at this point but to undercut and compromise our belief in our ideals. – James Mattis	Found on CNN 5 years ago
For the first time since World War II, Russia has been the nation that has redrawn international borders by force in Georgia and Ukraine while pursuing veto authority over their neighbors' diplomatic, economic and security decisions, president Putin seeks to shatter NATO. President Putin aims to diminish the appeal of the Western democratic model and attempts to undermine America's moral authority, President Putin actions are designed not to challenge our arms at this point but to undercut and compromise our belief in our ideals. – James Mattis	Found on CNN 5 years ago
He aims to diminish the appeal of the western democratic model and attempts to undermine America's moral authority, his actions are designed not to challenge our arms at this point but to undercut and compromise our belief in our ideals. – Defense James Mattis	Found on CNN 5 years ago
I think all of us want to know what a better deal looks like, what's the end game with the White House, what's John Cornyn plan, how do we get there ? i don't want to undercut his position, but I would like to know how this movie ends. – Lindsay Graham	Found on CNN 5 years ago
The Trump administration has taken some incredibly positive steps for the American economy, but tariffs will undercut that progress and needlessly hamstring our full economic potential. There are better ways to negotiate trade deals than by punishing American consumers and businesses with higher cost. – Tim Phillips	Found on CNN 5 years ago
The Trump administration has taken some incredibly positive steps for the American economy, but tariffs will undercut that progress and needlessly hamstring our full economic potential. – Tim Phillips	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
The agreement from the summit doesn't have binding authority over what the people do or don't do, and it can't undercut the universal value of human rights. – Kim Tae-hoon	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
This idea that you’re going to get money from the federal government but then try to undercut federal law and federal law enforcement – that just doesn’t sit well with American taxpayers but it’s also not good policy. – The Republican lawmaker	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
People should be troubled by any attempt by members of Congress to silence or undercut basic investigatory authority by a state attorney general's office, our office will not be intimidated by oil industry-backed members of the U.S. House of Representatives. – Cyndi Roy Gonzalez	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
I'm not sure it's going to happen because there are some unfortunately deliberate, or not deliberate, attempts to undercut the Vienna documents and we don't want to see that. – Russian Ambassador Vitaly Churkin	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
(Obama) does not support law enforcement. Simply doesn't. And he's going to come today to New Jersey in a place where, under my tenure, we have reduced crime 20 percent and reduced the prison population 10 percent, it's a disgrace that he's coming to New Jersey today to take credit for this stuff when he's been someone who's undercut it. – Chris Christie	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Stop-and-frisk would be back in about five minutes and we would empower the police, not undercut them. – New Jersey	Found on CNN 8 years ago

It flies in the face of decades of scientific and clinical evidence, the fact that this lawsuit can undercut something that we know that is extremely safe, extremely effective, and is one of the most accessible ways right now to get an abortion, I think, is absolutely terrifying.

– Dana Johnson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

You want to undercut the panic and bring it back down to reasonable proportions.

– David Carbonell

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I think to be a presidential candidate you can’t simply say, ‘I support the Constitution.’ You have to say, ‘I would oppose people who would undercut it,’ when you challenge the Constitution itself the way Trump has done, that is un-American.

– John Bolton

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

China is willing to give Russia some tacit support politically, diplomatically and to some extent economically, but the bottom line is that it isn't going to go out of its way and undercut its other strategic objectives to support Russia.

– Brian Hart

Found on CNN
1 year ago

In electoral terms, there is gain to be had from nationalist and other constituencies who want to see refugees return to Syria, PKK damaged, and the perceived U.S. project in Syria undercut.

– Rich Outzen

Found on CNN
1 year ago

In this film, Buzz is the action hero. He's serious and ambitious and funny, but not in a goofy way that would undercut the drama.

– Angus MacLane

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

One of our goals has been to limit Russia's ability to do something like this again, as Defense Lloyd Austin said. That's why we are arming the Ukrainians with weapons and equipment to defend themselves from Russian attacks, and it's why we are using sanctions and export controls that are directly targeted at Russia's defense industry to undercut Russia's economic and military power to threaten and attack its neighbors.

– Lloyd Austin

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Keystone would have absolutely made a difference because it would have lowered the cost of Canadian crude to get to the markets that it needs to get to in order to be refined and shipped to be utilized here in the United States, and so by canceling Keystone, it artificially raises the price of Canadian oil and allows for the Russians to undercut that.

– Jason Modglin

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We have to proceed all of us, including Russia, based on the rules, based on norms, based on the commitments that we’ve each made and also avoid statements that undercut those.

– Antony Blinken

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

They will have a lower cost than Verizon and so will be able to undercut on price.

– Jonathan Chaplin

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

Turkey has not really gained all that much from this, as I said, but in the process has scrambled the entire northeast, undercut our efforts against ISIS and brought in the Russians and the Syrian regime forces in a way that is really tragic for everybody involved.

– The US

Found on CNN
4 years ago

The point is the good economic news does help an incumbent, but other problems, policies and challenges can undercut that advantage, whereas in 1968 it was a war in Southeast Asia, today it is a political war over the meaning of this presidency.

– Julian Zelizer

Found on CNN
4 years ago

He aims to diminish the appeal of the Western democratic model and attempts to undermine America's moral authority. His actions are designed not to challenge our arms at this point but to undercut and compromise our belief in our ideals.

– James Mattis

Found on CNN
5 years ago

For the first time since World War II, Russia has been the nation that has redrawn international borders by force in Georgia and Ukraine while pursuing veto authority over their neighbors' diplomatic, economic and security decisions, president Putin seeks to shatter NATO. President Putin aims to diminish the appeal of the Western democratic model and attempts to undermine America's moral authority, President Putin actions are designed not to challenge our arms at this point but to undercut and compromise our belief in our ideals.

– James Mattis

Found on CNN
5 years ago

He aims to diminish the appeal of the western democratic model and attempts to undermine America's moral authority, his actions are designed not to challenge our arms at this point but to undercut and compromise our belief in our ideals.

– Defense James Mattis

Found on CNN
5 years ago

I think all of us want to know what a better deal looks like, what's the end game with the White House, what's John Cornyn plan, how do we get there ? i don't want to undercut his position, but I would like to know how this movie ends.

– Lindsay Graham

Found on CNN
5 years ago

The Trump administration has taken some incredibly positive steps for the American economy, but tariffs will undercut that progress and needlessly hamstring our full economic potential. There are better ways to negotiate trade deals than by punishing American consumers and businesses with higher cost.

– Tim Phillips

Found on CNN
5 years ago

The Trump administration has taken some incredibly positive steps for the American economy, but tariffs will undercut that progress and needlessly hamstring our full economic potential.

– Tim Phillips

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

The agreement from the summit doesn't have binding authority over what the people do or don't do, and it can't undercut the universal value of human rights.

– Kim Tae-hoon

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

This idea that you’re going to get money from the federal government but then try to undercut federal law and federal law enforcement – that just doesn’t sit well with American taxpayers but it’s also not good policy.

– The Republican lawmaker

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

People should be troubled by any attempt by members of Congress to silence or undercut basic investigatory authority by a state attorney general's office, our office will not be intimidated by oil industry-backed members of the U.S. House of Representatives.

– Cyndi Roy Gonzalez

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

I'm not sure it's going to happen because there are some unfortunately deliberate, or not deliberate, attempts to undercut the Vienna documents and we don't want to see that.

– Russian Ambassador Vitaly Churkin

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

(Obama) does not support law enforcement. Simply doesn't. And he's going to come today to New Jersey in a place where, under my tenure, we have reduced crime 20 percent and reduced the prison population 10 percent, it's a disgrace that he's coming to New Jersey today to take credit for this stuff when he's been someone who's undercut it.

– Chris Christie

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Stop-and-frisk would be back in about five minutes and we would empower the police, not undercut them.

– New Jersey

Found on CNN
8 years ago

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