Sentence examples for dramatic erosion from inspiring English sources

Dramatic erosion occurred as the Alpine chains were rising, filling the furrow that now constitutes the Alpine Foreland.

The financial meltdown has accelerated the dramatic erosion of middle-class opportunity that was once the trademark of the American Dream.

The scary thing is a dramatic erosion of American position in the world — its economic, military position, as well as America's influence.

Where this has been cleared (and often in the past overgrazed), the thin skeletal soils have been subjected to dramatic erosion and gullying.

"Lucent's undergoing a dramatic erosion of its market dominance," said Michael Neiberg, an analyst covering telecommunications infrastructure companies at Chase H & Q. "There's the perception that they need to react a lot more quickly to recoup these losses".

"The dramatic erosion of her health and the cruelty displayed against her, all duly documented, left me greatly worried about her physical and psychological well-being, as well as about her personal safety," he wrote.

The solar and LED businesses already struggle with oversupply, meaning Samsung may get walloped by the same dramatic price erosion as it has seen in liquid-crystal flat panels.

The most likely explanation for this dramatic increase in erosion rates, which likely occurred shortly before 1.2 Ma, is an increase in the effectiveness of periglacial weathering processes at high elevations related to a cooler and wetter climate during the Pleistocene, providing support for the hypothesis that changes in late Cenozoic climate are responsible for increased continental erosion.

In the United States, Pare Lorentz made dramatic documentaries about soil erosion and the Dust Bowl, such as The Plow That Broke the Plains (1936) and The River (1937), during the era of the Great Depression, and, during World War II, Frank Capra, who had been an outstanding director of Hollywood comedies, made a series of documentaries under the title Why We Fight.

Through construction and agriculture, humans have caused a dramatic increase in global erosion and the denudation of continents.

Clearly, this change in thickness, essentially in the absence of erosion, implies dramatic changes in bulk density of fresh tephra.