Translation examples
verb
Se saattaisi jopa horjuttaa yhteiskunnan perustuksia, ajateltiin.
So it might undermine some of the spirit of people.
Tämän tarkoitus on horjuttaa hänen uskottavuuttaan ja vaikeuttaa rahoitustaan.
Doing so would undermine its generality, and therefore damage its legitimacy.
Vaikka Viipurin katoamismysteerin ratkeaminen horjutti teloitushuhun uskottavuutta, sai se runsaasti tukea erilaisista silminnäkijäkertomuksista.
Although the regime had been successful in ending the student protests, the violent reaction nonetheless undermined its support among the broader population and created a symbolic focal point for later student protests in the following decades.
verb
Ja huomatessani, että tämä totuus — ajattelen, siis olen olemassa — oli niin luja ja varma, etteivät skeptikkojen yltiöpäisimmätkään olettamukset voineet sitä horjuttaa, päätin voivani epäröimättä ottaa sen ensimmäiseksi periaatteeksi etsimälleni filosofialle.
But immediately upon this I observed that, whilst I thus wished to think that all was false, it was absolutely necessary that I, who thus thought, should be something; And as I observed that this truth, I think, therefore I am, was so certain and of such evidence that no ground of doubt, however extravagant, could be alleged by the Sceptics capable of shaking it, I concluded that I might, without scruple, accept it as the first principle of the philosophy of which I was in search.
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