Sentence examples for eroding savings from inspiring English sources

One was the euro, which was widely blamed for pushing up prices and eroding savings.

And they're setting increasingly sophisticated traps to prey on the desperation of the jobless, whose guards are down amid eroding savings, swelling debts and calamities like foreclosure and bankruptcy.

Redundancy payments and other winding-up costs will erode savings even from bodies completely abolished.

Quick action bolstered food supplies and narrowly averted government bankruptcy, but ensuing inflation eroded savings and caused most living standards to plummet.

The sinking stock market was eroding the savings in his 401(k) retirement plan, and he was still making support payments to his first wife.

Domestic support for his "Bolivarian" socialism was being sorely tested by economic recession and inflation soared to 30% eroding the savings of the middle classes.

Children who come back home as adults are called "mammoni", or "mama's boys" in Italy; "parasaito shinguru", or "parasite singles" in Japan; "boomerangs" or "twixters" in the US; "KIPPERS" (short for "kids in parents' pockets eroding retirement savings") in the UK; and "Hotel Mama" in Germany.

Cost-cutting has not kept pace with a tide of new problems that have eroded those savings.

Older people fall for moneymaking offers because they fear inflation will erode their savings or they want to leave a nest egg for their children, experts say.

After all, bank depositors regularly lose more when unexpected inflation erodes their savings' real purchasing power (only the nominal value of those deposits is insured).

Inflation is necessary too, and the example of Japan suggests that ageing societies may prefer to sacrifice the young to a long period of slow growth rather than erode the savings of older voters.