Private stores will increasingly attract consumers and squeeze exchanges' margins, thus eroding their critical contributions to service member funds.
Others however, have found greater success by seeking to limit women's access to abortion through state and local laws, thus eroding the national implementation of Roe.
In 1936 internal confessional and political differences led the Lutheran territorial churches to form the Council of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Germany, thus eroding the unity of the Confessing Church.
The team traded away nearly all of its top players a year after spending freely on free agents, thus eroding the novelty of its year-old ballpark.
Any central banker raising interest rates is reducing stock market values and thus eroding the bonuses of top bankers and other chief executives.
In the 1980s and 1990s, Pillsbury, Quaker Oats, and even Procter & Gamble (an innovation powerhouse today) were vulnerable to smaller companies that could quickly roll out new products, thus eroding the giants' market share.
So successful has big business been at achieving this goal and thus eroding the tax bases of both leading economic powers and developing countries that the issue has shot up the agendas of the OECD, the G8 and the G20.
The international community (including the UN) has recognized some states while they were embroiled in a civil war (e.g., the Congo in 1960 and Angola in 1975), thus eroding the effective-government criterion.
But, as Tom Engibous, chief executive of Texas Instruments, the company that provides most of the chips for GSM telephones, argues, too uncompromising an approach to patent enforcement can force potential partners into working around you, thus eroding the value of your intellectual property.
REPEL is made of the same material as PLUG, but instead of being thrown into the water and carried to its destination by the current, it is laid out flat on a levee that is in danger of being overtopped and thus eroded by the river it is supposed to contain.In normal circumstances merely placing a layer of protective material on top of a levee in this way would not do much good.
