The Clinton-Gore administration, which was constitutionally obligated to look after our national security, actively undermined our intelligence-gathering capabilities and demoralized our intelligence community.

Instead he would actively undermine the institutions charged with protecting our national security.

During his trial, he actively undermined his own defense, and in particular protested his lawyer's requests for a psychiatric evaluation, but managed to avoid the death penalty by pleading guilty.

But the governors of two southern provinces admitted in interviews that former Taliban, who were granted an amnesty by President Karzai, have been actively undermining the government.

Labor sources later indicated that Rudd and Gillard had not themselves actively undermined Beazley, but had been effectively drafted.

Now, I see parents actively undermining their children's belief in schooling, discouraging any idea that further education might be something to aspire to and work hard towards.

It's also possible to astroturf issues, and use them to bludgeon parliament to actively undermine the public interest.

McLay lasted two years in the role, with Muldoon and others actively undermining his leadership.

"The housing department and the benefits department are pursuing policies which don't just cut across, but actively undermine, each other," she said.

Cyclops denounces the Avengers as having always seen the mutants as 'ugly stepchildren' and will now seek to actively undermine them after they acquired a "messiah."