Incentives are given to projects that would not proceed otherwise, Tokumbo Shobowale, the chief of staff to the deputy mayor for economic development, told the Council last week, and the living wage requirements would erode their value — meaning that the developments would not get built.
Netanyahu's comments were sharply criticised by President Obama over the weekend, who told the Huffington Post that rhetoric such as that used by the Israeli PM "starts to erode the meaning of democracy in the country".
The president also said Netanyahu's actions "erode the meaning of democracy," and give "ammunition to folks who don't believe in a Jewish state".
If that is lost, then I think that not only does it give ammunition to folks who don't believe in a Jewish state, but it also I think starts to erode the meaning of democracy in the country.
For example, Senator Bill Frist of Tennessee, the majority leader, said in a statement that the Massachusetts decision was wrong and eroded the traditional meaning of marriage as the union of a man and a woman.
Many cash transactions are for small amounts and are of an ad hoc nature, and this value will be eroded by any cashless system, meaning less value to consumers and small businesses.
Lucier's 1969 experimental album had the composer repeatedly re-recording his voice as it plays back in a room, until all meaning is eroded and it becomes room tone, a space's aural signature.
It's faced "cash flat" budget settlements in recent years, meaning that inflation has eroded actual spending power year on year.
But as the term has come into wide use, its meaning has gradually eroded, leaving open the question of who entrepreneurs really are and what distinguishes their ventures from conventional ones.
The very fact that we know such abuse of bylines to be commonplace erodes the meaning of bylines themselves: the copy may have been written by anyone, and so no one is publicly responsible for it, with the possible exception of the editor.
