It seems obvious that it would multiply the number of rules and standards, thus rendering transactions more complicated, and would erode privileges gained under other agreements.
If the Doha round ever succeeds, it might erode those privileges by extending them more widely.
It would mean eroding the privileges that make prisoners' lives bearable and prepare them for life on the outside.
Companies under the central government, such as PetroChina, the country's biggest oil producer, were believed to be strong enough to resist the changes that would erode their privileges.
As minister for economic development in the last centre-left government from 2006 to 2008, Bersani masterminded successive rounds of liberalisation aimed at increasing competition and eroding the privileges of some of Italy's many hidden cartels.
Ignoring demographic trends because they erode your privileges (which is different from being oppressive) does not make them go away.
It served as a powerful backdrop, a reminder of the endemic corruption of the regime, which not only enriched the President's family but a powerful strata of the Tunisian establishment that is reluctant to see its privilege eroded by the transitional-justice law.
What about all those other instances of privileges being eroded, of newcomers displacing the old guard and stirring up anger?
So, what happens with municipal privileges, towns that had municipal privileges, these are eroded and then virtually eliminated by powerful potentates.
"They simply decide it isn't a life they want to live .There are ways of reducing deaths among long-term prisoners, but unfortunately, they tend to mean eroding the few privileges that make their lives bearable.
While the Declaration elicited some thanks from Catholics and dissenters, it left the Established Church, the traditional ally of the monarchy, in the difficult position of being forced to erode its own privileges.
