The United States has led the attacks on such governments and continues to do so even as the United States republican base is being steadily undermined.
Public colleges and universities, which grant more than three-quarters of this country's degrees, have been steadily undermined by state budget cuts and a mood of legislative indifference.
The sheer ubiquity of moving images has steadily undermined the standards people once had both for cinema as art and for cinema as popular entertainment.
The most recent trends in British capital suggest that the economic basis for cultural unity within the upper class is being steadily undermined.
But the worst traits of the system have steadily undermined its educational purpose.
The privileges of the boyars, it is true, were steadily undermined.
Kirtivarman was steadily undermined by the activities of Rashtrakuta Dantidurga who was establishing the Rashtrakuta Empire.
The dictator still may hold the externalities of power, but he is steadily undermined.
The freedom of information law has been steadily undermined, to the point where agencies are blithely ducking their lawful responsibility and taking years to answer legitimate requests.
However, his government was steadily undermined by his inability to control the excesses from certain quarters within the state.