The benefits of a more disciplined government budget could easily be vitiated by more spendthrift citizens.

ECONOMIST: The sorry state of saving

The Telecommunicatons Act of two years ago has been vitiated by hyperenergetic regulators and court decisions.

FORBES: Fact and Comment

President Reagan repudiated Protocol 1 in 1987 because it vitiated the distinction between lawful and unlawful enemy combatants.

WSJ: Review & Outlook: Obama Ratifies Bush

Any benefits from extra water supplies will be short-term, and vitiated by floods.

ECONOMIST: Bursting cities, bust infrastructure

Not just work "vitiated by errors, " but a decision-making process patently unfair to businesses, was the court's reading of Monti's department.

FORBES: Two-card Monti

The cleverness is somewhat vitiated by ponderous direction and a bit too much fine acting, but the Spierigs deliver the conceptual delight of a retro fifties-style classic.

NEWYORKER: Daybreakers