Though still the world's tenth-largest population and third-largest economy as of 2013 in terms of nominal GDP, Japan has faced an ongoing period of weak growth since the Lost Decade of the 1990s, and has been suffering from an aging population since the early 2000s, eroding its potential as a superpower.
Such clinically motivated testing may already have identified many people with disease or elevated risk factors, thus eroding the potential for a benefit from systematic screening.
It will shutter some small businesses, but the low wage pressure environment that allowed them to limp along will continue to erode their potential anyway.
"At its core, asylum is an instrument to preserve the right to life," Cardinal DiNardo said at the assembly in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, urging "courts and policymakers to respect and enhance, not erode, the potential of our asylum system to preserve and protect the right to life".
The risks of transport may consequently erode the potential benefits of regionalization in areas in which transport durations are long.
Most raw materials needed for local manufacture are imported and subject to duties, taxes and tariffs, which erode the potential cost advantage that local manufacturing can provide.
In contrast, movement of mosquitoes between contiguous populations should erode any potential genetic divergence, resulting in homogenized gene pools (Hartl and Clark 2006).
The same principles, antitrust experts say, should apply to new kinds of software in markets that have the potential of eroding the grip that Microsoft's operating system monopoly exerts on computing.
This is not a particularly attractive solution, as it implies a very long slump in which incomes are lower than they need to be, unemployment is higher, and the economy's potential is eroding.
While he declares his contempt for feminism and his conviction that women will never get the vote (views urged partly by a broken heart), Gardner stands her ground, writing approvingly about suffrage and the Great War's potential for eroding England's class system.
Most of these SHI schemes are however facing challenges such as low enrolment coverages, poor quality of healthcare services, inefficient provider payment mechanisms, high claims bill, moral hazard and adverse selection which have the potential of eroding the gains made [2, 3].
