Veteran soldiers may be able to sustain themselves against the material damage and prolonged psychological strain, but it will erode the level of popular support for Isis in areas it controls.
"The point is that the federal minimum wage has eroded to the level of irrelevance," said Paul Sonn, associate counsel at the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law.
The Facebook IPO, with very public discussion of the pressures on Facebook's management team to "monetize" the information flow in Facebook, can only serve to further erode what precariously level of trust that now exists between users and the company that controls all that information.
Editorial writers, members of civic groups and experts in government say the ham-handed instances of official dishonesty in cases like these are eroding the once high level of faith of ordinary people in public institutions.
One has to wonder whether this massive questioning of the voting results on the local and national level is eroding the confidence of the citizens in our election process.
Barrier islands are generally eroding, because of higher sea levels and more severe storms.
Upon entering a still body of water, a stream's velocity is checked and thus it loses its eroding power; hence, the approximate level of the surface of the still water body is the stream's baselevel.
However, brown trout are under pressure from habitat destruction, pollution, over-exploitation and stocking with non-native fish, i.e. local factors that may erode the high levels of genetic variation observed and cause the extinction of unique varieties and loss of unique traits (Ferguson 1989).
In eroded Wairarapa hill country in the southern North Island of New Zealand, maximum production recovery occurred within 20 years but only to a level of 80% of the pre-eroded level (Rosser and Ross [2011]; Lambert et al. [1984], [1993]).
But, he said, "the level of complacency is eroding.
