Sentence examples for mass attrition from inspiring English sources

Mr. Buchanan's entrance into the Reform Party, he said, has caused "mass attrition," and there is a "grass-roots brushfire waiting to happen".

The N.A.A.C.P. criticized the census change, fearing that since so few in the black community are of fully African descent, mass attrition to a mixed-race option could threaten political clout and Federal financing.

The mass of attrition products was proportional to γm where γ is the shear strain and m is an index related to the mode of breakdown, a form used previously by Gwyn.

If there is a mass staff attrition, what we will do?" We had all those concerns.

(The first generation was clashing columns of manpower; the second was the industrial-age war of attrition, masses of artillery hammering each other; the third was the warfare of maneuver pioneered by the Germans).

In a powerful concurring opinion, Judge John Noonan paid particular attention to the section of the law that enshrines the mass expulsion of illegal immigrants — "attrition through enforcement" — as Arizona's official state policy.

A shift some people attribute to attrition.

Pain is inevitable, Guardian says, though he hopes to avoid mass layoffs in City Hall through attrition.

Judge Bolton rightly noted that the first section of the Arizona law declares "attrition through enforcement" — the mass expulsion of undocumented immigrants through wide-ranging crackdowns — to be the official policy of state and local government in Arizona.

The chronic inflammation has important nutritional consequences such as the increased secretion of cortisol (Sapolsky et al 1986 , 1987 and thus an attrition of the muscular mass.

Now, Hood continued, the battle over New York City's mass transit woes has been one of attrition, where officials must choose between what are essentially all bad outcomes to keep this age-old system afloat.