Sentence examples for fear of eroding from inspiring English sources

But the fear of eroding banks' margins seems to stand in the way of what would be a potent inflation-fighting tool.

There is also an unspoken fear of eroding the claim of Abbas's Palestinian Authority to be the sole representative of the Palestinians.

Mr. Shehadeh preferred not to tread on the fields, as they were freshly plowed, or scale up the retaining walls, for fear of eroding them.

No instead, the real fear of eroding the substance of our democratic will is the loss of power to an expanding dominion of the judiciary, which, ironically, exists to check the power of government itself.

They fear that his relatively extreme interpretation of Islam could have the effect of eroding the rights of women in Afghanistan.

Living in constant fear of eviction erodes whatever resources a family has.

The reason is that China has always operated to some degree on fear, and that fear is now eroding.

"Investigations of any community that are not based upon indications of crime create fear, and erode the confidence of a community in the power of a legal system to protect it," said Paul Chevigny, a professor of law at New York University and one of five attorneys on the case.

Officials said they feared that eroding dams would cause the Musconetcong River to overflow.

"While these warnings have been acknowledged, growing fiscal pressures on both sides of the Atlantic, I fear, have eroded the political will to do something about them".

The enemies of civility are humiliation and fear, which erode and then undermine this critical civic foundation.