In northern minds, destabilising the south and mucking up the referendum would undermine the legitimacy of any putative new country.

在北方人眼里，动摇南方的根基并搅乱民意投票能够削弱任何公认新国家的合法性。

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Japan is in transition, not decline, and the changes underway in the country will tend to reinforce rather than undermine the foundations of the bilateral alliance.

日本社会正处于一个过渡期，并不是衰退期，过渡过程中的这种变化不仅不会破坏美日双方的双边联盟关系，反而对这种关系有一种巩固作用。

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Member States that a country or small group of countries unilaterally and without restriction to deploy anti-missile system could undermine strategic stability and international security.

成员国认为，某一国家或少数国家集团单方面和不受限制地部署反导系统有可能破坏战略稳定和国际安全。

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U.S.Senator John Kerry, one of the authors of the aid package, is expected to arrive in Pakistan early next week to reassure Pakistani leaders that the United States does not intend to undermine their country's sovereignty.

VOA: standard.2009.10.16

In an open letter to Mr.Sanha and Mr.Yala before Sunday's vote, the Canadian International Institute of Applied Negotiation and the International Crisis Group called on the losing candidate to "refrain from taking any form of violent actions that could further undermine the fragile stability in the country."

VOA: standard.2009.07.26

HIV widespread poverty, poor educational and job prospects, crumbling health services undermine the country's prospects even without the disease.

ECONOMIST: AIDS in Kenya

The Cuban government described him as an agent of the US who was working to undermine the country's revolution.

BBC: Cuban dissident blogger Yoani Sanchez arrested

The Arab League move is being portrayed in Damascus as part of a Western-inspired conspiracy to undermine the country because of its traditional resistance to Israel, says the BBC's Jim Muir in neighbouring Lebanon.

BBC: Syria unrest: Arab League adopts sanctions in Cairo