Indeed, stirring in the back rooms and on the back lots of this city, a creeping capitalism is slowly undermining one of the last strongholds of socialism in Africa.

The regime of guaranteed survival is slowly undermining the belief that power is necessary (2).

What he discovers in Mark slowly undermines even his own sense of being.

If anything, that admission had only served to slowly undermine his own certainties.

Munro suffered from ill health, and was struck down by a lung disease which slowly undermined his constitution.

During an ice age, a glacier slowly undermined the crag, opening up cracks in the rock and causing this chasm to form.

All these discoveries were characterized by a pragmatic, scientific spirit that slowly undermined the old conservative, mythical ethos and made an increasing number of people receptive to new ideas about God, religion, the state, the individual, and society.

She elaborated that Esther is "the voice of reason" and she wanted to explore "what happens when the popular kid at school, slowly but surely undermines Esther's sense of self".

For more than two decades he had delayed his revenge, contenting himself with slowly undermining and reducing this woman to her present state, waiting for exactly the right moment to extract the final retribution.

It may be that instead of simply killing cells directly, like other viruses do, H.I.V. has evolved to use several devices to slowly undermine the immune system.