The ruling National Front coalition has been weakened by dissent against Abdullah, who has seen his authority erode rapidly since the March vote.
Komorowski's lacklustre campaign has seen his support erode, and while Duda performed more strongly than some suspected, his support has also dropped in recent weeks.
Too much immigration and too little integration have, they suggest, combined to erode social cohesion, undermine national identity and corrode public trust.
Public mistrust of government is high in Britain, and deference to the political elite has also collapsed as economic woes erode living standards.
"There is no doubt that a decline in remittances will exacerbate the humanitarian crisis and erode the gains Somalia has made in recent years".
They also say that the clandestine manoeuvres to spy on students, environmentalists, anti-fascists and other campaigners erode free speech and the freedom to protest.
Last year I reported for Harper's and Guernica on fever-pitch attempts in Kansas to erode both the funding of public schools and the separation of church and state within them.
He added: "There are some governments that feel [these companies] have stolen a march on tax jurisdictions and are concerned that this will erode their competitive advantage.
He triumphed in the head-on confrontation with Farage over taking a handout from the state (to which the party was perfectly entitled, but which Carswell thought would erode the party's claim to be different) and despite having delivered the most complete non-endorsement of Farage's leadership at the weekend, his status as an MP should be an amulet against lethal attack.
You only have to look at what Obama's administration wants to do – which is to erode inequality in healthcare and so on – and how difficult it is to achieve that, to understand how important this is.
"Because they are the same species they are very vulnerable to losing their pure genetics to domesticated chickens," he says, explaining that could not only hinder our study of the bird's domestication but also erode a useful genepool should the domesticated bird fall foul of disease.
