Sentence examples for thus eroding from inspiring English sources

Any central banker raising interest rates is reducing stock market values and thus eroding the bonuses of top bankers and other chief executives.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

On that score at least Mexico's traffic police, the scourge of motorists, are charm itself.For now, the hope is that new bike-hire schemes help raise cyclists' numbers enough to change motorists' behaviour and thus erode the perception of danger that keeps people off their bikes.

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.

Matthew Green, a cryptography professor at Johns Hopkins, flagged the change in a critical blog post at the weekend — entitled Why I'm done with Chrome — arguing that the new "forced login" feature blurs the previously strong barrier between "never logged in" and "signed in", and thus erodes user trust.

As its popularity shrinks, the regime must employ ever greater levels of dissimulation to maintain power, thus further eroding its support among the people.

This budgetary sleight-of-hand could trade partial relief for some seniors' programs by cutting other essential health security programs like Medicare and Medicaid, thus further eroding the tenuous economic situation many older Americans face.