Sentence examples for by eroding the value from inspiring English sources

High inflation also taxes wealth, rewarding borrowers at the expense of lenders by eroding the value of fixed payments.

Steep drops in the Japanese stock market compounded the situation for the banks by eroding the value of their stock portfolios.

Meanwhile, a stubbornly strong yen has weighed on Toyota's bottom line by making production in Japan more costly and by eroding the value of its overseas profits.

A strong yen has also weighed on Sony's profit by eroding the value of its overseas earnings when they are repatriated into yen.

A strong yen hurts Japanese exporters by making their goods more expensive overseas and by eroding the value of their repatriated earnings.

The recent slump in stock prices hurts banks another way, by eroding the value of their investment portfolios, a portion of which they are allowed to count as capital to back loans.

A burst of inflation would speed up this process by eroding the real value of mortgages.

Modest inflation would, however, reduce that overhang — by eroding the real value of that debt — and help promote the private-sector recovery we need.

On the eve of the Labour conference, calculations provided to The Observer have convinced pensions experts and charities for the elderly that the government's means-tested pension system, designed by Gordon Brown, is eroding the value of saving for retirement.

A strong yen hurts Japanese exporters by making their goods more expensive overseas and eroding the value of their overseas revenue.

Europe and Japan are eroding the value of China's dollar portfolio by failing to do what they ought to be doing.