![]() ![]() People have had concerns about the justice system at least since the O.J. To do that would undermine an element of the rule of law, which is that we treat like cases alike without regard to the subject matter.īroad brush allegations of voter fraud and illegal voting serve only to undermine the public’s trust and confidence in the elections process and run the risk of further deflating voter participation. This is going to undermine confidence in the FBI and other intelligence agencies, there is collateral damage from these attacks that isn't even being taken into account. He should be warn’d who are like to undermine him, and who to serve him. The undermining smile becomes habitual and the drift of his plausible conversation, is only to flatter one, that he may betray another. Making the king’s sword strike whom they hated, the king’s purse reward whom they loved and, which is worst of all, making the royal countenance serve to undermine the royal sovereignty.Īgainst whate’er may tempt, whate’er seduce,Īllure or terrify, or undermine. To excavate under.Ī vast rock undermin’d from one end to the other, and a highway running through it, as long and as broad as the mall. The church was undermin’d and then betray’d.Īn injudicious endeavour to exalt Virgil, is much the same, as if one should think to raise the superstructure by undermining the foundation.Īlexander Pope, Iliad. Though the foundation on a rock were laid, To dig cavities under any thing, so that it may fall, or be blown up to sap. Samuel Johnson's Dictionary Rate this definition: 0.0 / 0 votesĮtymology: under and mine.
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