Sentence examples for erosion of terms from inspiring English sources

First reunification, then the privatisation of state-owned utilities (and thus the erosion of terms and conditions for employees at Deutsche Telekom and all the rest) and finally out-and-out deregulation of labour markets have left workers worse and worse off.

"Universities are perceived to be 'rolling in money' in the eyes of students, as their income from tuition fees has tripled, yet the cuts to the teaching grant are not well understood by students and a fixed fee cap means an annual erosion of real terms income".

The last three and a half decades have seen a steady erosion of the terms of this settlement.

The erosion of long-term stability in employment means that people are expected to throw themselves into any job they find.

Ben S. Bernanke, the Fed's chairman, told a conference on Cape Cod Monday night that the Fed "will strongly resist an erosion of longer-term inflation expectations" in light of higher commodity prices, which he said had "added to the upside risks to inflation".

Reiterating a mantra that the Fed's policy makers seem reluctant to abandon, Mr. Bernanke told Congress on July 15: "We must be particularly alert to any indications, such as an erosion of longer-term inflation expectations, that the inflationary impulses from commodity prices are becoming embedded in the domestic wage-and-price setting process".

"This is the thin end of the wedge that could lead to further erosion of pay and terms and conditions for staff," she added.

"The continued erosion of the pilots terms and conditions over the past 10 to 15 years has to be not only stopped but reversed," the letter says.

The empirical record indicates the upper 10% of erosion events (in terms of mass) comprise roughly half of the long-term soil loss sum.

Both these factors could have contributed to the erosion of the long-term resilience of the system.

At millennial time scales, short-term processes such as gullying appear to be the dominant erosion features in the proposed landforms and may produce substantial erosion in terms of size and amount of hillslope material eroded and transported downslope.