Looking back on four years of conflict in Syria, the most painful realization is that inaction by the UN Security Council has created specific conditions that have allowed the conflict to expand beyond the country's borders and have seriously eroded well-established norms aimed at protecting civilians during conflict.
"If the value in a company's equity is eroding, well that is the cushion underneath the high-yield market, and high-yield bonds will be next," he said.
Public faith in Venezuela's institutions began eroding well before Mr. Chávez burst on the scene with a failed 1992 coup. Corruption discredited both main parties, and a patronage-fueled bureaucracy devoured the country's abundant oil revenues, leaving many Venezuelans desperately poor.
This is not about eroding well-established asylum policies, or creating some flimsy loophole that will open the floodgates to immigrants who simply seek a better life.
Together with persisting toxicities of therapy such as neuropathy and steroid induced myopathy, these prevent a return to good personal and socio-economic functionality and erode well-being and QOL [ 4- 7].
That commitment may be eroded as well by the increasing sway of "objective list" accounts of well-being, which appear to violate neutrality in specifying what counts as a good life.
Those who want to challenge a US-led global order or see it eroded, as well as those who expect that a new dawn of US isolationism will best serve their interests, are rejoicing.
Where the automobile is a major competitor to mass transportation, the use of transit has declined, reducing revenues available to pay the costs of these systems and services, and in a setting where government subsidies are essential for sustaining mass transit political support has eroded as well.
The unevenness of bedding joints and the tortuosity of karst hoses creates a high retention volume both for fine sediments (these are further deposited and eroded) as well as for the seepage water.
Unfortunately, these protections were gradually eroded with well-intentioned reforms, but the problem of an uninformed, disconnected electorate was never taken into account.
Nearly five thousand active, newly sex-linked protein-coding genes can be used to decipher the very early evolution of sex chromosomes, and should allow us to identify signatures of selective forces of sex chromosome differentiation that have long been eroded on well-studied ancient sex chromosomes [ 2].
