Sentence examples for have started to erode from inspiring English sources

Still, the conservative, eclectic and openly populist trends in contemporary composition over the last couple of decades have started to erode listeners' resistance.

Senator Saxby Chambliss, a Georgia Republican who is the committee's vice chairman, also voiced worries that efforts to break down barriers of communication between federal intelligence and law enforcement agencies after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks may have started to erode.

Technology advances in the past 5 years have started to erode these barriers to safely make human 3D data input as precise and easy to obtain as physical 3D object input.

They said that the reservoir had started to erode the Yangzi's banks in many places and that frequent landslides had been triggered by changes in the water level.

The furor over New York Road Runners' handling of its marathon last year has died down, but questions about the group's future persist, including whether its dominance has started to erode because of rival race organizers and disaffected runners.

Recently this stereotype has started to erode with a spate of synth-empowered women who operate in the independent-label underground and have received increasing attention and praise from music magazines during the past year.

"The social compact that you attend an elite law school and get a high-paying job has started to erode," said William D. Henderson, a law professor at Indiana University who studies the legal industry.

Opinion polls suggest that the wiretapping scandal has started to erode support for the former ruling party.

Reich and Lebow considered that American hegemony has started to erode when other nations regained their economic strength and political stability during the postwar decades.

REELING from billions of dollars of loan losses, banks have started to sell assets and rein in lending to keep their capital from eroding.

Rising wages in China and a gradually appreciating currency have also started to erode the country's international competitiveness.