Sentence examples for slow attrition from inspiring English sources

"Slow attrition of mistaken commitment" for example.

It will lead to the slow attrition of regional theatre, and the creation of cultural deserts across great swaths of the country.

Eventually, the failures announce themselves anyway in a series of suicide bombings, a slow attrition of Iraqi confidence, a sudden insurrection.

When Rome resumed the offensive against the invading Carthaginian army of Hannibal, Fabius waged a war of slow attrition, avoiding direct engagement whenever possible.

He came in as the underdog, but used his fantastic defensive skills to hold games that another player might have lost, managing to make games of slow attrition into thrilling theatre.

It is the decay that scares most, tending as it does to either the wet or the dry: flesh blowing up like a pig's bladder, fat, pasty, as if it might split open — pulp for worms — or the slow attrition of desiccation and shriveling.

Historians these days tend to attribute the eventual achievement of women's suffrage to the significant role they played in the war economy, and to the longer, slower attrition of the constitutional suffragists, who didn't engage in direct action.

This is because our empiric estimates of the distribution of time to discard indicates that 100% "failure" occurs on the order of 50 to 60 days, while assays of oxytocin API have generally demonstrated much slower attrition of API under similar temperatures.

And that, they say, might just slow the attrition on the high streets too.

It is more similar to the drab, amoral universe of John Le Carre, with its lack of heroes, and atmosphere of slow, psychological attrition.

This year, groups focused primarily on tenants' issues, including those supporting the coalition's platform, have centered their own campaigns on strengthening rent regulations to slow the attrition of low-priced units.