Farmers say that in some places it's so thick, grass won't grow underneath it and the soil erodes. |
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As the seamount sinks or its peak erodes, the seamount will disappear beneath the water leaving the coral ring. |
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I could also mention her gradual realisation that a mother is a group animal and motherhood erodes independence. |
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The weather erodes the carvings but the climbers are just speeding this process up. |
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A political programme that erodes human dignity is an affront to all of us, and deserves condemnation from every pulpit in the land. |
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When the masses contact the government anywhere in this anocracy their belief in the government further erodes fueling anger and defiance. |
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The scourge is not only devastating but it destroys systems and erodes all integrity in the affected society. |
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The larger macropores may extend for long distances, as water erodes and enlarges the segments that run downslopes. |
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This erodes the reliability of the published real output and productivity measures. |
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Likewise one of the things I hate about socialism and statism is that it erodes incentives to respectability. |
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This is the process by which rainwater erodes limestone cliffs and creates limestone caves and sinkholes. |
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If this capitalism goes untamed, it fosters a modernisation that drains and erodes. |
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It literally sandblasts the car every time it goes on track and gradually erodes all the surfaces and the cooling fins on the radiators. |
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She efficiently humiliates the girls, initiating a reign of abuse which gradually erodes their characters. |
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During its passage over land, water erodes vast amounts of continental rock. |
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This smacks of electioneering gone wrong to me, and further erodes the health minister's reputation. |
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As is erodes, it releases the digestive enzymes, amylase, lipase, and cellulase. |
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They readily understood how water erodes rock, and this made Lyell's report all the more believable. |
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When small towns and villages become bedroom communities their economic vitality erodes. |
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Money is a balm that eases people's shame, and a corrosive that erodes the bonds of tribalism. |
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The more time goes by, the more the government's responsibility erodes away, and we hope the bridge will not erode away as well. |
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A fluid together with its entrained load moving over a cohesive bed erodes longitudinal furrows or grooves when the stress exceeds the critical erosion velocity. |
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As the land erodes and changes so do the cultural aspects of the island. |
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It also means considerable extra expense in deliveries plus extra returns and the like. Finally, it erodes confidence in each news agency and this hurts our future. |
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This pressure erodes the nerve's protective covering so that it fires off with little or no provocation. |
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Water erodes mechanically by wearing away the banks and bottoms of rivers, and chemically by dissolving the rock it comes in contact with. |
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Lack of transparency encourages corruption, which erodes the faith of citizens in democratic institutions. |
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The impact of such food erodes even into the budhic plane and drives people to be diabolic. |
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Each rain and flash flood erodes more land, and more people moved away because of the economic loss. |
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Controlled motion of arcing erodes the cathode surface creating a highly ionized plasma. |
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Dislocation from such places erodes the material and spiritual connectedness of peoples. |
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They're right about that: an undervalued currency promotes inflation, erodes the real wages of Chinese workers and squanders Chinese resources. |
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This erodes health care and education, harms the environment, and further impoverishes poor populations. |
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As the caprock erodes, the underlying limestone is exposed to the runoff water that drains from the remaining area of the plateau. |
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Poor investment performance hurts earnings and erodes the capital base upon which insurer ratings depend. |
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This erodes capital even faster, thereby running the real risk of outliving the plan. |
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This formation erodes into ledgy cliffs and slopes and can be seen above Curtis caprock in Cathedral Valley. |
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As this line erodes, the principle of non-intervention must also weaken. |
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If a cavity erodes into a bronchus then the person develops a cough with infected sputum and often blood. |
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Dolomite blocks fall away as water from above infiltrates and rapidly erodes the shale at the falls itself. |
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When the forest is cut away and replaced by farms or ranches, the fragile Amazon soil erodes and eventually becomes exhausted. |
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They have also said that the covert operation to spy erodes free speech and the freedom to protest. |
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This is worrying as it erodes people's confidence in the justice system, and, limits the access to, and quality of justice. |
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This conduct erodes the trust necessary for all sides of the House to work constructively to improve Canada's anti-terrorism laws. |
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The degree to which efficacy erodes to a lesser level of effectiveness is determined principally by coverage. |
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Avoid napping during the day, as this erodes the quality and quantity of night-time sleep. |
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The tablet contains a polymer-based drug delivery system which controls the release of levodopa and carbidopa as it slowly erodes. |
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In addition, their experience erodes their respect for the law, which can lead to future problems. |
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Looking for a job today can be a brutal experience that crushes self-esteem and erodes self-confidence. |
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This exodus often erodes the very aspects that drew people there in the first place. |
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The sea erodes everything, washes it smooth and round-edged. |
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This erodes the city's sense of place, the film-makers argue. |
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It undermines democracy and the rule of law, leads to violations of human rights, distorts markets, erodes the quality of life and allows organized crime, terrorism and other threats to human security to flourish. |
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Behaviour that erodes or destroys a woman's cultural or religious beliefs by ridiculing or penalising them or forcing her to adhere to a different belief system. |
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Children are always the first to suffer from the burden of disease caused by dirty water and poor hygiene, while the wider impact of unhygienic environments drags back economic progress and erodes good governance. |
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Hatred is the poison that erodes the tolerance and open-mindedness that must flourish in a multicultural society committed to the idea of equality. |
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The U. S. experience has shown, that the loss of any element of this capability ultimately erodes the competitiveness of the entire marine-related industry. |
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The inflammation of synovial membranes erodes through the cartilage and surround bone as it expands. |
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It erodes public services and trust in officials. |
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We do not know the price of each day or of each hour, and time, slipping through our fingers, erodes our prints, our sensitivity and our expectations. |
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It's often not the mistake or lapse in judgement itself that erodes trust. |
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The invasive plant outcompetes native species and erodes river banks, increasing the risk of flooding. |
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The services in our health care system are increasingly being financed by private interests, even though experience in related fields indicates that costs rise as the public system erodes. |
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Forcing producers to continue to market their malt and export barley through the Canadian Wheat Board erodes numerous new opportunities for the crop. |
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It erodes client trust and may weaken our reputation within the community. |
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Over time, this erodes the value of his investment. |
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As the granite erodes further, blocks of eroded granite known as clitter are left. |
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Managed retreat moves structures and other infrastructure inland as the shoreline erodes. |
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Appearing as the ground erodes, the fragments and fossil teeth look like flat white pebbles. |
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While wave action erodes the coastline in one place, the littoral drift eventually deposits the sand elsewhere. |
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Areas where the rule of law is weak attract drug traffickers, perpetuating a vicious circle that perverts local economies, deepens corruption and erodes the integrity of public institutions. |
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She observed that corruption is a threat to a peaceful and stable state as it erodes the moral fabric, subverts the rule of law and leads to economic stagnation and under development. |
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The collagen fibres, which provide skin with its firmness, and the elastin fibres that give it its flexibility, are produced up to the age of 15 or 20, after which this precious capital erodes year after year. |
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Public confidence in vaccination erodes because of perceived risks associated with immunisation, and this in turn leads to lower vaccination coverage and loss of herd immunity. |
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As the defining challenge of our generation, climate change inflicts serious damage on the vital socio-economic infrastructure of countries and erodes their progress in development. |
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In fact, relentless multitasking erodes executive function. |
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When the sand erodes, as it almost certainly will, it smothers spawning areas for smallmouth bass and other fish, buries mayflies in their burrows, and covers the vegetation where frogs and toads lay their eggs. |
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Firstly, it is important to emphasise that restaurants are not food factories, so they must not be required to follow the same provisions, since this erodes quality and traditions. |
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As a union, we must be creative in interrupting the changes to the PSMA, an act that erodes our rights and sours the fruits of our labour that we have achieved over the last four decades. |
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But each time an island row flares up, attitudes harden and trust erodes. |
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Hydraulic action and abrasion are what erodes the soft rock and the water to fall down to the river bed. |
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The nematode Skrjabingylus nasicola is particularly serious to stoats, as it erodes the bones of the nasal sinuses and decreases fertility. |
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Ice in the accumulation zone is deep enough to exert a downward force that erodes underlying rock. |
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This protection erodes the Cape's shoreline at the expense of its cliffs, while protecting towns from Fairhaven to Marshfield. |
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Otherwise, the beach is unstable and the replenished sand quickly erodes. |
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To the dismay of IT professionals charged with maintaining productive systems, application performance steadily erodes as they struggle to keep up with network demand. |
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During their evolution over geologic time, the largest seamounts may reach the sea surface where wave action erodes the summit to form a flat surface. |
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The chalk slowly erodes to form characteristic rolling hills and valleys. |
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The uplifted core of the fold causes compression of strata that preferentially erodes to a deeper stratigraphic level relative to the topographically lower flanks. |
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Since the 1980s Bronze Age stone-lined burial pits, called cists, have been exposed lodged in the cliff-side at Low Hauxley on Druridge Bay as the shoreline gradually erodes. |
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From north east of England, the cliffs become lower and are composed of less resistant moraine, which erodes more easily, so that the coasts have more rounded contours. |
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The solubility of limestone in water and weak acid solutions leads to karst landscapes, in which water erodes the limestone over thousands to millions of years. |
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Much of the formation's terrain is covered with wind-sculpted hills called yardangs, a sign that the exposed material erodes easily, says Watters. |
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