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Unfortunately, our position as the world leader in infrastructure has begun to erode after years of misdirected federal priorities.

With the end of the war, the times are changing, and as much as Don Vito seems in control at the wedding, his power is beginning to erode.

Where the marriage culture begins to erode, social pathologies of every sort quickly manifest themselves.

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The company, which is restructuring, has lost around $7 billion so far this year as its share of the American market continues to erode.

Mr. Obama says, taken together, the agreements on energy and health care are signs that divisions in Washington are beginning to erode.

Yet the utility of those arrangements began to erode when the cold war ended and China began its rise to the powerhouse it is today.

But Clinton warned that mounting government debt is beginning to erode U. S. power abroad.

The Emperor's succession plans began to erode when Ahmanson turned ten and his beloved mother served his father with divorce papers.

But like so many here, he complains that inflation is beginning to erode those gains.

We've seen hints of it before, but as they begin to pile up, will his female fan base begin to erode?

As the Cold War wore on, the key elements in this consensus began to erode.

And that will cause the brand gap between the top VCs and the super-angels gradually to erode.

But the ruling means that DB's near-monopoly of regional traffic (its share is estimated to be 88%) is likely to erode more quickly.

In so far as it reflects a tough stance on immigration, the crisis on Lampedusa is unlikely to erode support for the government.

Now, geologists say the trapped water's massive weight has begun to erode the Yangtze's steep shores at several spots.

But a series of shifts in the sector could start to erode that dominance, leading to big changes in the commercial aircraft industry.

The preference schemes appear also to erode the interest of their beneficiaries in promoting general trade liberalization.

Rigid stability can result in stagnation, allowing the changing business environment to erode the organization's business position.

Forces of competition are the challenges of others, in the pursuit of profit, to erode a firm's competitive advantage.

But growing competition has recently begun to erode Taobao's market share.

But ICBC says it expects market-oriented reforms of interest rates to erode the margin this year, hitting profits.

They have the ability to erode through adjacent bones, including the base of the skull to result in intracranial extension.

China's export dominance, especially in labor-intensive areas, is likely to erode over time.

The first spills in early 1922 (Fig. 4) began to erode the foundation at the downstream toe.

New proposals would begin to erode the last bastion of press freedom in the country.

Soon, though, Mountain Pass and Australia's Mount Weld together should begin to erode China's near total monopoly.

Medicare reform: Republicans are determined to erode Obama's health care reform bill.

A stringent regulatory environment ought to erode profits.

Regional elections in November are likely to erode his near-monopoly of power.

And rivals are likely to continue to erode its share of the market.

Put social projects in head-to-head competition for funding, and those values start to erode.

Even domestic investors might reflect on the potential for inflation to erode the real value of their holdings.

As borrowers defaulted, the banks' losses started to erode their own thin layers of capital.

Climate change has the potential to erode progress in universal primary education.

OF THE many unpleasant legacies left by the economic crisis the mountain of sovereign debt may prove hardest to erode.

This force causes inflation to erode wage purchasing power, shifting it to the government.

And deep roots helped form sticky clays, which are harder to erode.

Rising seas threaten to erode the coastline and spoil thegroundwater.

Meanwhile, support for Moammar Gadhafi continues to erode.

To erode or be eroded by abrasion.

These kinds of thought patterns tend to erode self-esteem