The unions, which had vowed to resist this latest erosion of their influence, buckled under a barrage of cajoling and threatening calls from the prime minister.
Berezovsky was by then Russia's richest man but the 1998 rouble crisis – which saw banks collapse and Russians lose their savings – began the erosion of his influence.
The main opponents of privatization have been civil servants in Islamabad who have objected to the erosion of their influence and have been very slow in administering the sales of enterprises.
By Dave Zirin February 28 , 2011After a thirty-year erosion of power, influence, and numerical strength, a period of reckoning has arrived for organized labor, and the terms of the debate couldn't be starker.
The committee is concerned there will be a steady erosion of World Service influence within the BBC, in part because it will not be represented on the corporation's top boards.
After a hard decade, in which its relative power has declined, that distinction (Mexican border walls notwithstanding) is probably the best single reason to believe that the erosion of U.S. influence in the 21st century will not be inexorable.
After a thirty-year erosion of power, influence, and numerical strength, a period of reckoning has arrived for organized labor, and the terms of the debate couldn't be starker.
Russia itself, though wary of China's steady erosion of its influence in the former Soviet states of the region, is now too dependent on Chinese goodwill to do other than cheer.
In January the Foreign Affairs Committee warned that "a steady erosion" of its influence within the BBC could starve it of resources, damaging Britain's interests in foreign lands.Cheap at the priceThat would be a mistake.
As a result, a noisy confrontation is building between a left-of-center government that says it has a public mandate for change and a church hierarchy that sees a further erosion of the influence and power its has enjoyed here for centuries.
