But it has also meant a corrosive trend: a gradual increase in state involvement.
Faizullah Zaki Senior adviser to General Dostum Kabul Insuring your moneySIR – Using bank-deposit insurance was a bad example of a "corrosive trend" in the state's involvement in finance ("Leviathan of last resort", April 12th).
And she underscored her belief that the "corrosive trend of winner-take-all politics" won't likely be able to be repaired from within.
It is one of the most important -- and corrosive -- trends in economic development in the former Soviet Union, in the former Yugoslavia and in formerly socialist African countries like Angola.
The corrosive effects of this trend are visible not only on Wall Street.
The ugly trend toward corrosive big money judicial elections is apt to continue in the upcoming midterm elections, when hot judicial fights are forecast in several states, including Alabama, Michigan and Illinois.
Trump didn't start the trend of corrosive nationalism ― Putin and former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi were pioneers ― but he has helped make a punchline out of the title "world leader".
"That kind of skepticism is very corrosive," Professor Van Horn said, "because the trend in the last half decade or more has been company leaders' ratcheting up expectations for their work force to be more productive, work harder and longer.
I'm alarmed that this is not just a passing trend, but something deeply corrosive to the foundation of our society.
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This inward movement seems to have proved corrosive.
