Sentences with phrase «to undermine one's credibility»

These actions have seriously undermined the credibility of the Chinese government and shaken the confidence of investors and business executives.

If you don't step up you'll diminish leadership support and further undermine your credibility.

In attempting to assess the impact of these cuts, a number of other questions arise, which seriously undermines their credibility.

But they do undermine the credibility and authority of the report as long as they're there.

When you're in the wrong you don't admit to it and that completely undermines your credibility.

Doing bad while claiming your group does more good undermines your credibility fairly thoroughly.

And it is this need which ultimately undermines the credibility of the science.

It is inconsistent with past practices, not to mention undermining the credibility of the budget and the spending cuts.

The nostalgia for those grand, encompassing stories is high in our day, and yet nearly everything in our culture undermines their credibility.

While these concerns have been acknowledged since the beginning of the charter movement, shortcomings related to educating students with disabilities are increasingly undermining the credibility of the sector overall.

Doing something (anything) different when a volatility event occurs undermines the credibility of the message that there's nothing new about it and nothing to do as a result.

To round off such mathematical precision with a huge assumption necessarily undermines the credibility of the formula.

The mention of her job and children came initially during trial, as the defence attempted to undermine her credibility in cross examination.

Here are a few easy - to - make mistakes that can seriously undermine your credibility.

This evidence proved to be very compelling in undermining the credibility of the complainant.

The Exec Dir immediately started undermining my credibility with colleagues and with my new interim director.

Shop around too frequently and you risk undermining your credibility as a prospective long - term customer; too seldom and you risk paying more for insurance coverage than you would if you'd just looked a little harder.

Not doing so undermines credibility and trustworthiness with the public (even if it may infuriate partisans).

Critics of Muller, particularly Joe Romm, have been so focused on undermining the credibility of Muller's effort by focusing on one of his funding sources (the Charles G. Koch Foundation) that it'll be interesting to see how they play his confirmation of temperature trends.

However, to be fair, monthly results were not a good indicator of the final results for 2012 - 13, thereby undermining the credibility of the Fiscal Monitor itself.

«Since Zuckerberg allowed millions of Russian trolls to undermine our democracy, I assume he won't mind if one Russian troll undermines his credibility.»

To undermine his credibility even further, the TD bank issued a report that said, that at a price of oil at $ 40 a barrel, the government's contingency reserves would be depleted and the government would be in deficit in 2015 - 16.

They did, and still do, marvelous work and gathered support, but were marginalized early when a very small donation from an oil company undermined their credibility.

Let me say it again: illiteracy undermines your credibility.

While its search rivals Google (NSDQ: GOOG) and Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) have gone full - force into extending R&D efforts into mobile — and becoming dominant players in the process in areas like mobile operating systems, extending their online products into smartphone controllers — Yahoo has started and stopped (mostly stopped) a number of initiatives that has if anything undermined its credibility in the sector.

Critics have pointed to Massey's lavish spending as a potentially undermining his credibility as a business - minded expert who can better manage the city's sprawling bureaucracy.

They understood that excluding a prudence reserve would not only undermine the credibility of their budgets but also seriously their own fiscal credibility.

A finding in the civil case that the defendant probably committed the criminal act of which he or she was acquitted does not undermine the credibility of a system that found there was a reasonable doubt.

Cuomo complained the Lopez scandal undermines the credibility of state government.

The governor undermines any credibility he might have on the severity of New York's budget situation when he dismisses meaningful ideas about cost savings.

«Her inability and unwillingness to own up to her own professional writings as her own undermined her credibility,» Morrison said.»

Stating that the budgetary will balanced over the medium term and then continuously revising the medium term undermines the credibility of the commitment.

His use of the Conservative surplus forecasts undermines the credibility of the NDP budget plan.

This delink between the discussion and the recommendations undermines the credibility and usefulness of the report.

Ex-FED Chairman Paul Volcker delivered a speech on May 29, which served as a «shofar» blast, warning the FED and its governors to be cautious in possibly undermining the credibility that all central bankers strive to maintain.

Also, doing so in an insulting fashion does nothing to strengthen your position - rather, it severely undermines your credibility.

In the view of many thoughtful Catholics, the failure to address effectively the scandal of Catholic politicians who publicly reject the Church's teaching on the gospel of life is gravely undermining the credibility of episcopal authority.

To deny or dismiss such insights in the way we present Catholicism to the modern world undermines the credibility of the Church and the message she preaches.

Running Roman through all that just to lose undermines the credibility of everyone else.

stating simply that ozil is just not good enough undermines your credibility, sir.