Rather than directly confronting or challenging an authority, he attempts to appear consistently cooperative and compliant, while utilizing subterfuge to undermine Spanish authority.
The entire world is trying to either undermine your authority or render you obsolete.
Conversely, a Supreme Court decision invalidating the mandate would not seriously undermine congressional authority.
Mr Warcup said there had been "persistent attempts" to undermine his authority as Acting Chief Officer of Police.
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Former CIA chief Robert Gates recalls Rice's accosting a Treasury Department official who tried to undermine her authority.
The first course would undermine his authority further and leave the top of the cabinet looking much the same as it did before.
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This, I believe, is damaging to Iraq's prospects, will continue to undermine the authority of the UN and directly affects my work and responsibilities.
Mrs Kumaratunga has another worry that could undermine her authority.
Emperor Napolon III and his ministers have the idea that France's foremost illusionist could undermine the authority of Algeria's foremost holyman, thereby preventing him from proclaiming a jihad against the aggressive French.
What started with rows over access to the team and withheld payments became almost open warfare when the 65-year-old was given cause to believe the ABAE was trying to undermine his authority by leaking a damaging story about the team to the national press.
Such techniques "undermine our moral authority and do not make us safer, " he said Thursday, when the White House released the memos.
If the court had handed down such a ruling in 1880, it probably would have accomplished nothing more than to undermine its own authority.
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They want to undermine the Palestinian Authority" and it "seems to me that when Sharon hits back, he's responding by undermining the Palestinian Authority.
They also undermine the moral authority of those institutions' leaders.
Giving evidence to the committee scrutinising the LCO on 3 December 2009, Rex Phillips from the NASUWT said that they were concerned the new powers could, at best, undermine the local authority control of schools in Wales and, at worst, lead to the privatisation of services to schools.
President Karzai has become increasingly frustrated by what he sees as American attempts to undermine Afghanistan's authority, the BBC's Quentin Sommerville reports from the capital, Kabul.
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The biggest victims of such policies are frequently, not incompetents and illiterates, but those who teach their pupils to question authority and undermine the official ideology of the corporate state.
His aim in calling the referendum was to undermine Mr Maskhadov's authority and thus to end calls in the West for Moscow to negotiate with him.
Klaus argued that a directly elected president would have greater popular authority and that this could undermine the Czech Republic's parliamentary system of government.
McClellan attempted to sabotage Lincoln's war policy in 1862 has the leadership of the U.S. military so blatantly attempted to undermine a president in the pursuit of his constitutional authority.
The Scottish Qualifications Authority has urged teachers to take account of mistakes which can undermine pupils.
Finally, the frequent use of referendums can actually undermine democracy by encouraging elected legislators to sidestep difficult issues, thus damaging the prestige and authority of representative institutions, which must continue to perform most of the business of government even if referendums are used frequently.
If the ownership is confirmed, it could undermine Mr Sharon's claim that Mr Arafat personally ordered the arms shipment and that the Palestinian Authority was "a major player in the networks of world terrorism spearheaded by Iran".
There are fears that Hungary's new data protection authority will come under Fidesz influence and that a plan to make 274 judges retire early will undermine the judiciary's independence by enabling new pro-Fidesz appointees to replace them.
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