Sentence examples for be to erode from inspiring English sources

Particularly when their very purpose appears to be to erode basic standards of living from people who are already disadvantaged.

While there was some discussion about remaining in the race through the primary here on Saturday, Mr. Huntsman decided he did not want to carry on any longer, given that his only possible accomplishment would be to erode Mr. Romney's natural base of support and help Rick Santorum or Newt Gingrich.

"Too often the instinct of authority seems to be to erode them for the sake of 'security,' forgetting that those ideas are the ones that forge stable, tolerant, open and peaceful societies in the first place".

The best it can hope for at this stage is to erode his authority.

If the ceasefire were to erode, so too could public support.

The effect is to erode an initial cost advantage and to ease the burden of adjustment in other countries.

One is to restructure (in other words, default on) its public debt; the other is to erode the debt's real value through renewed inflation.

Since that reform also indexes pensions to inflation rather than wages, the result, say the unions is to erode pensioners' purchasing power and so their standard of living.

The idea here is to erode the purchasing power of money, inducing holders of yen to spend them before they melt in their hands.

The effect has been to erode the world's sense of America and Americans.

The effect is to erode confidence in the value and quality of America's colleges and universities.