Interests in light and space notwithstanding, Mr. Downes is also documenting the structures, both eroding and robust, with which man presumes to mark the earth.
Increasingly frequent reports of drug use, however, coupled with the stories of bribery of I.O.C. delegates by cities, have both eroded the credibility of that response and sent the committee scrambling to rehabilitate its image.
Selling some of it, especially to fill part of the gaping hole in the public finances, would both erode that wealth and damage the central bank's fiercely guarded independence.
I think that Americans are eager for a serious American energy policy that could both erode the economics of this pipeline and marginalize the "drill baby drill" crowd as childish and irresponsible.
Is Snowden's massive theft justified by the degree of governmental intrusion he unveiled; the importance of the public discussion he provoked; the systemic shortcomings, if not outright failures, that both eroded adequate oversight and short-circuited the possibility of public debate absent his intervention?
Correlation based methods have been applied widely in sequence analysis, are attractive since they operate directly on the symbolic sequence, are equally spaced in period (referred to here as 'linear-period') and are relatively tolerant of both eroded perfect and approximate periodicity.
Neither step would be cataclysmic; both would erode the hope of reaching everyone, a process that BBC3's demise has begun.
(Farsi speakers also noted that Obama means "He is with us").But the bitter mistrust that divides Iran and America, and the domestic considerations of leaders on both sides, eroded that initial optimism.
The social and economic trends that went along with that prosperity tended both to erode many traditional institutions — the patriarchal family, the church, the geographical community — and to create more personal freedom.
