But these little bits of blind chance or Fate take out individuals rather than eroding the ties of the hermetic village. |
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Rather than eroding barriers between communities, a Berlin wall of suspicion, mistrust and hatred has been erected. |
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While stock and bond prices are attaining new record quotations and prices, the productive basis of an economy may be eroding and vice versa. |
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Cinder block dissipaters outside irrigation gates prevent floodwaters from eroding the floor. |
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Haitians have chopped down so many trees that the soil is eroding, making it harder to farm. |
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They accused the chancellor of isolating Germany internationally and eroding the country's diplomatic room for manoeuvre. |
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Practically all of them are mixed up in some kind of criminal dodginess anyway, so it's hardly eroding their morals. |
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However, eroding the basic civil rights of any Americans is simply un-American. |
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Weber saw routinization and mechanization as ultimately destructive, that is, as eroding the spirit and capacity for spontaneous action. |
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In a perfect world, this sand would build up the beach and keep shoreside cliffs from eroding further. |
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Trees and forests had been cut down to provide fuel and even the most fertile soils were eroding at an alarming rate. |
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And then you turn off the main road, and are in another, private world of gated compounds ringed by eroding mud-brick walls. |
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He also often bears a scythe or sickle in his arms, reflecting that Time's eroding force cuts down everything. |
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She insists that the British consensus around publicly funded healthcare is not eroding. |
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Concerns about falling victim to phishing scams are eroding US consumer confidence in online banking and e-commerce. |
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And to make things worse, coffee prices have been on a nose dive since the split, eroding farmers' confidence in coffee. |
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But the subculture has many serious negative effects, eroding morale and confidence in the church. |
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At the moment we don't have a neat solution to the problem and it really is stretching staff and eroding morale. |
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Worst of all expansion is eroding the precious and time-honored values of community with neighbors and communion with nature. |
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All we hear is how our nuptials will lead to the downfall of western civilization by eroding heterosexual marriage. |
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And so, if he ends up eroding some of his domestic support to do this, this ends up being a photo op. |
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Town leaders are calling for a crusade against television programmes they claim are eroding moral values. |
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With the party's countrywide base eroding, Gandhi campaigned tirelessly and showed political maturity. |
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The coastal region of the Humber estuary is low-lying and gradually eroding inland. |
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It's a race against time to stabilize their government before public support, which is alarmingly eroding, starts to hemorrhage away altogether. |
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Like so many other women caught in war zones, these women are victims of a violently eroding patriarchal system. |
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The oldest fossils of parrotfishes, including one eroding species, are all of Miocene age. |
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Trial by jury is the most fundamental of our civil liberties and eroding it is wholly unjustified. |
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At that time, Rehnquist said the high number of vacancies was eroding the quality of justice associated with federal courts. |
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Cranial magnetic resonance imaging showed a giant intracranial parasagittal frontal tumour eroding through the top of the skull. |
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The badlands are significant due to the plethora of fossils and dinosaur bones that have been recovered in the slowly eroding hoodoos, narrow valleys and bone-dry coulees. |
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For years now, human remains have become exposed in the eroding sand-dunes and it was not unusual to encounter a grinning skull when walking along a particular stretch. |
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Longshore drift transported sediment from this eroding rocky coastline to these embayments following the culmination of the post-glacial marine transgression some 7 ka ago. |
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Clear contrasts that once separated the two lands are eroding, blurring. |
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As well as eroding land on visible sites, high winds are blowing off topsoil and sands which expose undiscovered sites which are then quickly washed away, said Dawson. |
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As Michael Lewis explains so well, exploitative Wall Street behavior has run amuck, eroding trust and investor confidence. |
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In the treeless badlands, bluebirds nest in cracks and crevices of steep eroding hillsides. |
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It is dismaying how the lack of political will on the part of some is eroding the entire NPT regime. |
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For us, the weaknesses that are eroding the efficacy and legitimacy of the Security Council strike home with particular urgency. |
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Impact, grinding and abrading within the crusher simulates the action of nature, eroding the particles to a cubical shape. |
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Organizations that drift away from their mission run the risk of eroding their base of legitimacy and credibility. |
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It's possible, in fact, that the crisis, instead of eroding the reputational advantages of the big banks, ended up bolstering them. |
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Continual physical force events or processes, such as abrasion, can contribute to eroding or detaching object labels. |
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The loss of your roles and of your body image may be eroding your sense of self-worth. |
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The impact on human capital is grave, with virus-induced incapacity and death eroding the labor force and reducing productivity. |
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From time to time, they try to negotiate more agreements and rules, eroding even further protectionist barriers to trade. |
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Soil loss and declining fertility are eroding the viability of agricultural land. |
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It sometimes even makes us feel tempted to create security legislation which comes very close to eroding the values of our civilisation. |
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The concept of rotating another country in ends up eroding a lot of the very positive work that the one country's military has done. |
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In order to reduce the eroding effect of inflation on one's purchasing power, it is important to include investments with growth potential. |
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Another strategy would be to use cynicism as equally eroding every possibility for multiple interpretations. |
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Position the larger stones along the toe of the original bank to prevent water from eroding under the structure. |
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Like all of his shows, this one is challenging and timely, but it only glancingly addresses how the computer is eroding the hard-won humanistic qualities of modernism. |
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Living vicariously through his teammates was better than being home, preoccupied each day with his eroding strength. |
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It could be that the action was minor but sustained over a long period of time, thereby eroding good faith and confidence in collective bargaining. |
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His oftentimes messy and disorganized decision-making process has been widely publicized, further eroding any appearance of strong decisive leadership. |
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Thousands of walkers were not only eroding and abrading the fragile soils at a record rate but also were rapidly creating tracks and pads in previously untracked areas. |
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A supine Congress like the present one is rapidly eroding the American founding fathers' vision of a legislature keeping the executive branch on a tight leash. |
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But from there we had Watergate, stagflation, oil embargos, eroding American power in the world, growing income inequality, etc. |
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Traditional privacy rights are eroding at a time when the Pentagon is experimenting with riffling through databases in search of patterns of terrorist activity. |
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But in each of these cases, the moves were defensive and wimpy, aimed at preserving eroding positions and not getting hurt. |
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This social neglect to take care of our elderly is seriously eroding the international image of the nation as the world's 12 th largest economic power. |
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The core value of constitutionalism, enshrined in the conception of a limited government, is to limit the State power, to prevent it from eroding civil liberty. |
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These zones cause erosion along their edges, further eroding the marsh into open water until the whole marsh disintegrates. |
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For example, a rehabilitated road with proper drainage may pose fewer long-run environmental impacts than a deteriorating road that is eroding away. |
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Needless to say, these setbacks and the eroding social conditions of our members will be front and center in the review of Canada's report under the Covenant. |
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The freshwater Lake Orcadie existed on the edges of these eroding mountains, stretching from Shetland to the southern Moray Firth. |
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However, the strength in commodity markets appears to be eroding, in my opinion correcting rather than necessarily topping, which has helped the currency weaken as of late. |
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The Montreal area market has been generally chugging along since the spurt of activity during 2003-2004, with sales and prices moving softly higher and affordability gradually eroding. |
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Moreover, the government's refusal to clarify its European policy setting out a coherent prospectus for EU membership is further eroding business confidence. |
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Further exploration of middle ear and mastoid cavity revealed cholesteatoma eroding all ossicles and involving mastoid bone. |
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We have lost, and are still losing, or at least eroding, values such as work, discipline, self-reliance, that is to say all those values which go towards creating a good citizen when these people reach adulthood. |
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Wamwangu Aisat cursed them for eroding her topsoil. |
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Secondly, eroding or even abolishing the intervention system will leave farmers at the mercy of traders, who buy from producers at derisory prices and then often resell at substantially higher prices. |
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Attempts at the partnership model which are not approached with these principles in mind would tend to erase the distinction between the judiciary and the government, thus eroding the important independence of each. |
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The very nature of STDs and some of the legal aspects of treating STDs in minors may give the impression of eroding the principle of confidentiality. |
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For pouring, be sure the crucibles or ladles aren't spalling, eroding, deteriorating or developing too much buildup. |
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An accidental discovery ranges from noting the presence of archaeological objects on the ground or the seabed to discoveries made on eroding banks after a flood. |
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Two strong tides, one of prudery and the other of political correctness, are eroding a verbal landscape created by centuries of cartography and local usage. |
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The mass diffusion of popular media is rapidly eroding the foundations of many reserves' ability to sustain their traditional values and original languages. |
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At some locations, homes fortuitously located near the edge of the eroding terraces, were damaged or destroyed by undermining associated with the bank erosion. |
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Preventing the river banks from eroding should stop the river over-topping its sides so easily in case of heavy rain and flooding. |
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This occurs by sand eroding from the coast and filling out the seabed just off the beach. |
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America's working middle class has been eroding for a generation, and it may be about to wash away completely. |
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To make any progress, however, the concerns of current and future host countries would have to be identified and assuaged without eroding the protections offered to United Nations and associated personnel. |
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The eroding cliffs often reveal previously hidden remains, particularly along the Back of the Wight. |
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In fact, the souring of economic conditions, eroding consumer confidence and, in some instances, past excesses are creating a downdraft that the majority of Canada's housing markets will be hard-pressed to resist. |
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Bill C-38 constitutes, purely and simply, a rejection of the conjugal meaning of marriage, a phenomenon more pronounced over the past two generations which is progressively eroding the institution of matrimony. |
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Why the re-entrant eroding of the external corners, which makes the form less clear than it might have been? |
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A culture of litigation is growing around the world that is adversely affecting the practice of medicine and eroding the availability and quality of health care services. |
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Throughout the 1st century BC, the power and legitimacy of the Roman constitution was progressively eroding. |
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They both overran much of Henry's remaining continental lands, further eroding the Angevins' power on the continent. |
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Conversely, the last third of the twentieth century was a time of growing inequality and eroding social capital. |
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Their eroding effects have left the Finnish landscape mostly flat with few hills and fewer mountains. |
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Blue Hone has very low water absorption, which prevents the action of repeatedly freezing water from eroding the stone. |
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Floodplains are made by a meander eroding sideways as it travels downstream. |
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For conservation reasons there is a strict speed limit enforced on all vessels, to reduce waves eroding the riverbanks. |
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The eastern edge of the bay is formed from soft red and orange cretaceous rocks that are rapidly eroding. |
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How much a beach is eroding or prograding in any given location is due to some combination of these factors, which vary from place to place. |
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Organizations that drift away from their mission or find themselves unable to adapt to the changing social, economic and political environment risk eroding their base of legitimacy and credibility. |
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Europe's marine industries are on the verge of collapse, and the high cost of fuel oil is eroding the narrow economic margins available to fishermen. |
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The Fao a·s to preserve free access to phytogenetic resources, access to genetic diversity being of prime importance in order to limit the risk of eroding agricultural produ·ion and to ensure the development of seeds. |
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The low, curving barrier beach in the photo retreats 8 metres annually, and will soon become detached from the eroding drumlin remnant in the foreground, exposing a sheltered inlet to Atlantic storm waves. |
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This effectively ends their traditional right and customary practice of saving, exchanging and using seeds and selling produce within the traditional market place, thus eroding a traditional way of life. |
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An abusive man undermines a mother's efforts to parent, whether by contradicting her, sapping her confidence as a parent, or eroding the children's view of her as a person worthy of respect. |
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Among those who take a dimmer view of globalization one concern is that the increased influence of international financial markets is eroding the ability of national governments to set their own macroeconomic policies. |
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As with all coastlines, this rise in water levels are predicted to negatively affect salt marshes, by flooding and eroding them. |
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Timber and mineral resources become currency for the purchase of arms, which are then used to foment civil conflict, eroding the rule of law, sound governance, and social capital. |
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The propensity to mathematize was eroding the Virginia tradition. |
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Nourishment is not the only technique used to address eroding beaches. |
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The Mountain Breeze Site was identified by a portion of the articular end of a proboscidean long bone eroding out of an arroyo wall near Nogal, New Mexico. |
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The sheeting of water keeps the edges of the rock wet without eroding the soil, but in this precarious location no tree or large shrub can maintain a roothold. |
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The coast is largely an eroding landscape and management of the site aims to allow the natural processes of erosion to continue while protecting people and property. |
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Aside from the human cost, the outbreak was severely eroding the economy. |
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Brain herniation and space-occupying lesions eroding the tegmen tympani. |
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While legal encyclopedias like CJS were at one time heavily used by the courts, the growth of statutory and regulatory governance has had the effect of eroding this reliance. |
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Sand dunes on the beach, which have long protected the golf course, are themselves in danger of eroding away, and are the subject of a restoration project. |
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A piece of birch wood which had been gnawed by a beaver was found sticking out of the eroding bankside of the Scaup burn at Kielder Forest in Northumberland. |
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The new bond issue now appears to be on the bubble, with support eroding. |
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Since most of their work involves applied and action research, which demands more data-based study than rigorous deskwork, the culture of library use is eroding. |
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By 6,000 years ago, the sea level was high enough to start eroding the glacial deposits that the vanished continental ice sheet had left on Cape Cod. |
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