Sentence examples for eroded state from inspiring English sources
Meanwhile, Mr. Saleh's pervasive patronage system, still in place, eroded state institutions as corrupt officials ignored laws and regulations to enrich themselves.
The prospect of expanding Medicaid, though, comes as most states are struggling to pay for people already eligible for the program, because the economy has eroded state budgets and caused many more Americans to become poor enough to qualify.
Such cutbacks, in response to the recession that has eroded state finances even while swelling Medicaid ranks, is the reason Washington's Democratic governor, Christine Gregoire, is among governors from both parties who fear the implications of the health care overhaul now being devised in Washington, D.C.
Warned SIGAR: "Corruption has eroded state legitimacy, weakening the government's ability to enlist popular support against the insurgency, discouraging foreign investment and economic growth, as well as seriously diminishing Afghan military capability". Nine of ten Afghans say corruption is a daily problem; six of ten say it is a major problem.
But Johnson also spoke of the eroded state of American civil discourse and the ways in which voices can be used to stoke bias and promote injustice.
Important revenue sources are being eroded: states are losing billions of sales tax dollars to Internet sales and to an economy in which much consumer spending has shifted from buying goods to buying lightly taxed services.
From their perspective, German unification has brought easterners diminished factories, eroded state-run industries such as coal mining and, perhaps more important, eradicated a sense of national identity.
They said it would "erode state oversight of health insurance plans and eliminate consumer protections".
Critics elsewhere have suggested that national standards will erode state and local control of schools.
The lawyers, who have not disclosed other details of the planned strike, warn that an overhaul could erode state legal aid's reach and efficiency.
Walter M. Urban Jr., the mayor of Medford, in Burlington County, said that more than a decade of eroding state support of schools had caused local property taxes to soar.
