The debt burden destroyed consumer confidence and undermined the banking system, crippling the economy.

On both counts, confidence is undermined, and a downward spiral is set in motion.

Specifically, problems in the US housing sector have, since summer, undermined confidence in securitized assets.

Indeed, trust and confidence in scientific research have not been seriously undermined by reports of misconduct.

It has raised questions of confidence and trust and could have seriously undermined the peace process.

And across the continent, the persistence of poverty and widespread unemployment have undermined social confidence and social stability, fuelling conflict and unrest.

Arab and international governments would have reacted negatively, and investor confidence in Lebanon would have been undermined, jeopardizing Lebanon s political and economic relations.

Indeed, by striking hotels favored by foreign businessmen and visitors, they undermined the confidence of those whom India needs to sustain its success story.

However, confidence in putative distributions has been undermined by recent discoveries triggered by the use of new technology, such as DNA or genetic investigation.12

Whose authority I undermined...?

The downgrade has undermined that hope.

This undermined Khatami s authority even further.

Family support mechanisms have been seriously undermined.

At the same time, monetary injections cannot resolve the generalized uncertainty of a financial system in which globalization and securitization have led to a lack of transparency that has undermined trust and confidence.

Progress in health and literacy is being undermined.

Respect for fundamental rights has been severely undermined.

Nothing undermined dignity more than poverty and hunger.

This has undermined the core objective of the NPT to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons and has decreased confidence in the nonproliferation regime and put at risk the security benefits of the Treaty.

He undermined the minimum of threshold in our country.

Terrorism has seriously undermined our socio economic development efforts.

Country specific resolutions undermined the promotion of human rights.

Terrorism threatened development and undermined global stability and prosperity.

Africa is being undermined by areas of disturbing destruction.

Success breeds confidence, and confidence brings progress.

And, most recently, the disturbing willingness of some members of the US Congress to pursue a strategy that would cause the Treasury to default on legal obligations has undermined global confidence in the dollar s privileged status.

But those policies almost always reduced aggregate demand, pushed the economy into a deeper slump, and further undermined confidence most recently when the International Monetary Fund insisted on them in East Asia in the 1990 s.

Confidence

Confidence?

Confidence?

They threatened property and undermined political order from the outset.

Meanwhile, the credibility of Draghi s atomic weapon is being undermined.

Its role should therefore be expanded and centralized, not undermined.

The Organization suffers the consequences, and its credibility is undermined.

Remaining silent on that question undermined the cause of peace.

Sure, gives you more confidence. Wrong kind of confidence.

But Al Qaeda as a global threat has been severely undermined.

Taylor has undermined a string of peacekeeping interventions in the region.

When they are weakened, our collective resolve to act is undermined.

The many years of extolling individualism have not undermined our families.

Confidence! Devotion!

Self confidence.

A Confidence.

The speakers emphasized that such crimes not only had an adverse effect on the economic climate and business confidence, but also undermined the tax base, interfered with competition and had a negative long term impact on democracy and good governance.

Summing up the impact of those killings, the Secretary General wrote quot Be that as it may, those murders have had a nefarious impact on the political climate and have undermined confidence in the peace process quot (S 26790, para. 87).

This outcome undermined those in Turkey who had promoted human rights reforms.