Sentence examples for steep erosion from inspiring English sources

That decision cost hundreds of lives and led to a steep erosion of civil liberties.

So tough that Mr. Hoyer defines victory in 2010 as including a steep erosion in Democratic strength.

YouGov BrandIndex, a market research firm that tracks consumer attitudes, says it has noticed a steady, albeit not steep, erosion over the last 18 months in how consumers perceive not just drug brands like Tylenol but also J.& J.

ILLNESS forced Herbert von Karajan out of the Berlin Philharmonic tour, but the sound he has nurtured and husbanded in three decades of leadership - three decades that have seen the steep erosion of identifiable, distinctive sounds in other orchestras - came to the Metropolitan Opera House without him yesterday afternoon.

"In recent years, the company's senior management has overseen a steep erosion of revenue growth, earnings, operating performance, financial capacity and shareholder returns".

A Brown advisor, speaking on condition that he not be identified, said a "steep erosion in confidence" in the authority has led to concerns about the project.

Such landslides have resulted in significant soil loss from extensively grazed, steep, erosion-prone pastoral hill country over the past five decades and have been most widespread in regions where the geology consists of young, late Tertiary-aged sedimentary bedrock (Mazengarb and Speden 2000).

In recent years, major rainstorm events in the North Island's East Coast, Bay of Plenty, Wairarapa and Manawatu regions have caused soil loss over extensive areas of steep erosion-prone pasture land, contributing to sedimentation of river systems and widespread flood damage to public and private assets (Davis et al. [2009]).

For lack of sufficient field advisors many of the strips were off-grade, and others were on land which is too steep for erosion to be halted by this method, as shown in Photo 4.22, but erosion in Swaziland would be very much worse if these strips had not been left.

Time Warner's TNT has suffered steep viewer erosion; Comcast's NBC network remains in the ratings basement; ratings at Viacom's Nickelodeon have recently plunged 20 percent.

Because of the high level of rainfall, attaining more than 5000 mm in the wetter parts of the island, and because of the prevailing steep mountains erosion control is of crucial importance in Fiji.