Vitiates

And as in a mathematical demonstration an error in the original number disturbs the whole calculation which follows, this fundamental uncertainty about the word vitiates all the applications of it. ❋ Unknown (2006)

The overuse of bold to modify Godwin’s word vitiates its potency. ❋ William Safire (2004)

Global warming precisely vitiates market fundamentalism. ❋ Unknown (2009)

And that, of course, completely vitiates whatever virtues his methods may have had. ❋ Unknown (2009)

We also have illegal drug and weapons problems associated with tens of thousands of deaths in Mexico, hollowed-out manufacturing that further threatens America's security and impedes and vitiates the value of high-tech R&D our potential economic future, and our unwillingness to address global warming. ❋ Unknown (2011)

A permitted use is a noninfringing use, and if available vitiates the need for the exemption. ❋ Rebecca Tushnet (2009)

The is no plan to end the CIA's longstanding collaboration with corrupt, unpopular warlords (including the Mafia style, illiterate boss of Oruzgan province) whose dominance vitiates the scheme to work around Karzai's inept central government. ❋ Michael Brenner (2010)

The Local Courts Bill, to be introduced next week, reads: "Any person who vitiates the atmosphere in any place so as to make it noxious to the public to the health of persons in general dwelling or carrying on business in the neighbourhood or passing along a public way shall be guilty of a misdemeanor." ❋ Curtis M. Wong (2011)

In fact, since you said that unfair pressure somehow vitiates consent (4: 11), the girl is doing him a great service by relieving that pressure and thus allowing him to truly decide for himself. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Please re-read the last sentence, and if necessary look up “completely” and “vitiates” in a dictionary. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The poet Karl Shapiro, the one Bollingen judge to vote against the award to Pound, noted that "the poet's political and moral philosophy ultimately vitiates his poetry and lowers its standard as a literary work." ❋ Unknown (2010)