Since its adoption in1973, the spirit and, we now know, the legal mandate of the Act has been consciously challenged, undermined, dismissed, dodged or violated in an on-going erosion of Congress' constitutional authority.
"I think there is more than one thing going on, and in particular I think there is an interplay between erosion and deposition," Cramer says.
"It shows the encroachment and erosion of the constitution that's going on from nationalist Christian forces.
Going outside causes erosion, despoliation and creates unnecessary marks on other vegetation nearby.
Also you damage the soil and cause erosion by going off the trail.
I don't understand why we have to go through this erosion one way or another".
"But we tend to ignore the erosion that's going on beneath the sheets".
If DeVos's nomination is approved, she will speed along the erosion of public education, which has been going on for some time.
There is, in fact, an inexorable erosion of the credibility of free trade going on in the academy, not that you'd know it from watching the economists who show up on TV.
I think there's going to be an erosion to the impact".
