Sentence examples for eroding power from inspiring English sources

Its eroding power base intensified the jockeying within the union to succeed Mr. Zwickel, its longtime boss.

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.

Officials familiar with Palestinian politics said senior members of Mr. Arafat's Palestinian Authority had been pressing him to take such action, if only to bolster the authority's eroding power.

In recent years at the powerful Writers Guild of America West, an aggressive slate of fresh leaders headed by the union's president, Patric Verrone, ousted an executive director who had been regarded as too sympathetic to the companies, installed new managers with labor union backgrounds and resolved to re- establish what they saw as their guild's eroding power.

Still, for progressives, the eroding power of the churches is a most welcome development: the religions right can no longer claim to be the sole source of morality and virtue, nor can they expect to assert their will in political matters and be obeyed without question.

And, with America being culturally and racially a dominant neo-European nation in its past, many will presume and infer that nationalist ideas will also protect the eroding power of the existing ruling class.

"We've seen clearly an effort to erode power of the legislative branch," he added.

China and other Asian powers will capitalize on further American missteps; eroding the power and influence of the U.S. and its allies in the process.

Most notably, one could argue that the Internet has radically decentralized power and eroded the power of traditional media, and has also given rise to citizen journalism.

"Anything less means they will fall into 'the eroding spending power trap' which has already wiped almost £700 off the spending power of £10,000 in just five years".

Meagre wages and stubborn inflation are eroding spending power (see article).