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If that happened, the bank would be forced to put up billions in extra collateral, eating into its liquidity.

With industrialisation eating into the countryside, he said the government would halt plans to restore arable land to nature.

Based on this data, Bing seems to be eating into Yahoo's market share, but isn't growing at Google's expense.

Erode : To cause to diminish , deteriorate, or disappear as if by eating into or wearing away.

It has since spread in concentric circles each year and is now eating into maize crops in Germany and Italy.

But dumping assets would risk setting off another downward spiral in prices, eating into the amount of capital in the system.

The rise of Bebo also undermined MySpace's dominance, while Twitter is among the latest novelties eating into users' attention spans.

Airbus's A320, a single-aisle aircraft, was eating into Boeing's market share, and the board had decided to take on Airbus in a price war.

Anecdotal evidence and empirical research that showed tablets were eating into the netbook market much more than dedicated e-readers.

the tight supplies have led to sharp price increases , bumping up companies ' costs and eating into profit margins.

For the most part, analysts say, netbooks enlarged the computer market rather than eating into sales of conventional notebooks.

During Mr Obama's 11-state winning streak it looked as though he was eating into Mrs Clinton's core support in the white working class.

While technology is eating into the work that some college graduates do, their general skills show little sign of losing value.

It is now turning many of its pay-per-view customers into regular subscribers, eating into Sky's business.

"It just keeps eating into people's income, " said James Corbin, a former union official who works for the local utility in Tucson.

Mizutani people are eating into the stomach, so stomach Valley to the sea water.

Contango kicks in when funds must replace expiring futures with longer-term contracts at higher prices, eating into returns.

The latter currently make up more than 50% of the global TV market, but LCD prices have fallen sharply, eating into margins.

However, putting separate eating into practice in a long run after the SARS epidemic means cost multiplying.

Prices are up for steel and other materials needed to build cars, eating into profits.

When this began eating into lenders' profits, they reacted by pushing subprime rates back up.

These losses are eating into banks' capital and shrinking their capacity to add assets.

A drill that ate away at the rock; exorbitant expenses that were eating into profits.

The surge in oil prices is eating into disposable income and being felt in consumer spending.

EJ : Charles, have Americans turned eating into a feeding? Something to get over with?

Early in the century, private enterprise had started eating into the government-guaranteed mortgage market.

The Japanese is to keep food fresh, just put raw fish eating into rice bag.

Sales were hard hit by high interest rates eating into disposable income.

He believed he could do this by super-charging the conservative base and eating into "Democratic" groups such as Hispanics and young voters.

Apparel retailers say the shift is eating into their sales, too.

You can see now that with 128MB, I am already eating into swap, and I haven't actually started doing anything yet.

Maybe there's something clearly eating into your work time.

Now that a stronger yen and dearer oil are eating into profit margins, the situation may not improve soon.

EATING INTO "THE CHINA PRICE"

The new routine quickly became a source of conflict in the family, with Ms. Gude complaining that technology was eating into family time.

In the modern world, there are more ways than ever to waste time, and all kinds of distractions are eating into our precious time.

even if it means teaching themselves new skills and eating into their savings;

I suggest you ride the former to ensure adequate sleep, eating into the 78 should eat, eat greasy food;

5 minutes before eating into the beef, spinach segment, to pick peppercorns, boil;