In captivity, boredom could be more corrosive than hunger, he found.
I cannot imagine a policy that would be more corrosive to community relations, more obstructive to integration, or more pernicious in its effects on vulnerable individuals.
Indeed, building on work by Jerry Mashaw, this article suggests that using the canon of avoidance rather than judicial review to enforce the nondelegation doctrine may, if anything, be more corrosive of congressional prerogatives.
He doesn't want you walking on his metal plates in stiletto heels, or in cleated boots that have snow on them, or with bare feet, whose oils can be more corrosive than rock salt, but he knows that these and other harmful actions will take place.
Dr. Stansbury said in his report that the proposed pipeline would have more frequent spills in part because "the crude oil that will be transported through the Keystone XL pipeline will be more corrosive than the conventional crude oil transported in existing pipelines".
The emotions they feel, while seemingly more benign than those of the perpetrator, may in the long run be more corrosive: humiliation, embarrassment, a sense of having been naïve or blind, alienation from those who knew the truth all along and, worst of all, bitterness.
