It's harshly worn, as if eroded over millennia, yet it retains strength and grace.
Sir James said: "It is vital that public confidence in the family justice system is maintained or, if eroded, restored.
I reconfigured the pattern, and developed designs in which elements of the pattern appear and disappear as if eroded by time.
It's inexpensive and easy – if slightly eroding to paternal confidence – to fix a small messaging blunder like this one.
On other issues, the poll found fairly strong, if slightly eroding, support for the police commissioner, Raymond W. Kelly, despite a number of recent black eyes for the department.
Jihadists, who are heavily influenced by Salafi ideas but equally influenced by political Islam, started polarising the Salafi landscape and steadily, if slowly, eroding traditional Salafism.
"Meaningful work" is still something of a privileged pursuit: The same Silicon Valley startups that are offering Ivy League dreamers the chance to make some extra cash — your Ubers, your TaskRabbits, your Airbnbs — also are "disrupting" (if not eroding) middle-class livelihoods.
If inflation is eroding the real value of existing debt, then the government may borrow to an adjusted, or revised, level before its actions actually reduce public assets.
Those daily economic and political struggles against the state meant the legitimacy of Mubarak's regime was rapidly eroding, if it ever really existed.
This gathering, ceremony and learning institution is eroding, if not already disappeared: "In the Ol Manyatta, it is our university of Maasai…old men come from all the tribes…the young generation settles here, and they are told stories.
