It undermines the foundation of religion and imputes wrong to God.
Maimonides's criticism of the atomic theory of matter and motion just described is that it undermines the bases of geometry.
Gradually the care and attention she shows him undermines the sternness of his vocation.
One of the dangers of the stage is that it unconsciously undermines Christian morality, substituting that of the world: extolling pride as a virtue, looking down on the humble as poor-spirited and the like.
Much of the present civilization leads the average man and woman to a superficiality and inner hastiness which undermines sound mental life much more than the external factors.
The oratory of those who denounce the physiological theories as lacking idealism in reality undermines true moral philosophy.
At Folkstone, the sea undermines the chalk and subjacent strata.
The river then undermines its banks on each side, to supply the deficiency in its bed, and the island is afterwards raised by fresh deposits during every flood.
He who sets fire to his neighbor's house, endangers the existence of his own; he who degrades his neighbor's children, undermines the future of his own.
If this important limitation, which fundamentally undermines the whole value of the commandment, had entered into Christ's meaning, there must have been mention of it somewhere.
While ostensibly widening its realm, one undermines it.
Take, for instance, this sentence, 'Indolence undermines the foundation of virtue.
Take, for instance, the sentence before quoted: 'Indolence undermines the foundation of virtue.
Take, for instance, this sentence: 'Indolence undermines the foundation of virtue.
Knowing the human weakness, the White Slave trader makes capital out of the carelessness and ambition of the parents, and the false modesty of the public, and thereby undermines innocence and steals the purity from the home.
No social problem is too unclean for the people to take hold of when the cause undermines the fairest heritage in life, our homes.
It undermines our national interest both at home and abroad.
But now the refusal to comply with the non-Christian demands of governmentsundermines the power of state to the root, because all the power of the state is based on these non-Christian demands.
And so in our time every profession of true Christianity by a separate individual most materially undermines the power of the government and inevitably leads to the emancipation of all men.
If this important limitation, which radicallyundermines the meaning of the commandment, entered Christ's mind, there ought somewhere to be mention made of it.
The axiom that necessarilyundermines all such courses is obvious enough.
It undermines the imagination by giving it paper things instead of real ones to work on.
Mental pain undermines the Welfare of the Whole Organisms.
The tendency is toward a habit of fault-finding criticism which not only harms the object of the disparaging words, but which injures and undermines the usefulness of the life of the habitually unfair critic.
Under such conditions woman's suffrage kleaves things as they are, except only that it undermines the logical foundations of the law, and still further debases the standard of public efficiency and public morality.
An extension which takes in any women undermines the physical sanction of the laws.
It represents a view of the world and of life which undermines true Christian human life, rendering it ultimately impossible.
Whoever substitutes blood, race and nationality as the creator and source of authority instead of God, undermines the state.
In much the same manner, at a somewhat later period, Kierkegaard undermines Christianity by making an extravagantly ideal demand of the individual Christian.
Although she casts no doubt upon the necessity and indispensability of marriage in our days, she undermines the belief in its eternal continuance.
This kind of stimulus, unless counterbalanced by physical exercise, not only wastes time and energies, but undermines the vigor of the nervous system.
When it is mixed with only a small portion of air, it is a slow poison, which imperceptibly undermines the constitution.
It undermines the will to power, it levels the racial mountains and valleys, it makes man small, cowardly and voluptuous.
The socialist who undermines the workingman's healthy instincts, who takes from him his feeling of contentedness with his existence, who makes him envious, who teaches him revenge.
The Socialist who underminesthe workingman's instincts, who destroys his satisfaction with his insignificant existence, who makes him envious and teaches him revenge.
Neither does secularism for that matter, no less illiterate, and no less subjected to the same expectation of high efficiency whichundermines the core of any religion.
The infinity of choices available in the civilization of illiteracy eradicates any center, and to some extent undermines commonalty, even at the level of the species.
Therefore law loses its credibility because it undermines the notion of the social contract.
We pass on now to review the human nature in its constituent parts, and it will be seen that the heretical formula undermines faith in respect of each several part.
If the foundations be undermined, as monophysitism undermines them, the superstructure crumbles.
Yet the ability to couple the abstract algorithm with the concept of a Turing machine undermines this conception.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "undermines" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
