But the cuts, which are the biggest in the state's history, threaten to erode the system's stellar reputation.
But as Mr Khodorkovsky said in a recent interview from jail, the tensions between the declining performance of the Russian economy, the expectations of the population and the corruption of the bureaucracy will erode the system, whoever is president.With Mr Putin in power, Russia may suffer deep stagnation, but a collapse of the system would be all the more dramatic.
Des Marchais has warned that "Educational reform demands strong and innovative leadership, because the pressure to revert to tradition is always present and may erode the system even as it is put in place" [ 44].
First, the increasing complexity of systems has eroded the system engineer's ability to predict the outcome of his or her design decisions.
The lives of the individuals involved may be ruined by the invidious actions of some areas of the media; but even more importantly it erodes the system we have in place for protecting our most vulnerable children.
Gradually, between 1805 and 1815, Muḥammad ʿAlī eroded the system of tax farming (iltizām) that had diverted most of the revenues to the Mamlūks and other notables, imposed the direct levy of taxes, expropriated the landholders, and carried out a new tax survey.
With austerity cuts eroding the systems and structures on which we all depend, I've actually seen a hardening in attitudes towards disabled people.
Mr. Rivlin did not mention Mr. Netanyahu by name but accused those in power of working to delegitimize and weaken "the gatekeepers of Israel's democracy," and, crucially for a country that lacks a constitution, erode the justice system and the influence of the courts.
Farbod Raiszadeh, M.D. New York To the Editor: Could many months at a time of keeping "unhealthy schedules, working 27 hours at a stretch, eating out of vending machines and delaying bathroom breaks for hours" — plus investing emotionally in patients — possibly cause enough chronic physical and emotional stress to erode the immune system?
She said many U.S. complaints stem from Chinese actions that "erode the international system, or that slowly eat away at a rules-based order and universal rights, or that give one nation an unfair advantage..."...
She said many U.S. complaints stem from Chinese actions that "erode the international system, or that slowly eat away at a rules-based order and universal rights, or that give one nation an unfair advantage...".. But Rice also challenged critics, including some Republican presidential candidates, who say Obama should not have honored Xi with a state dinner.
