However, they did give David Cameron a sizeable majority, which he now lacks, and those of us with long memories will remember how that slender win in 1992 played out for John Major, whose war of attrition with a rump of rightwing MPs became emblematic of his demise.
The statute's likely effects on Hispanics in Arizona that emerged in questioning were considerably more frightening — in keeping with a law whose explicit purpose is "attrition through enforcement".
At oral argument, Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. focused on the doctrine of pre-emption, and brushed aside some effects of the law, whose explicit purpose is "attrition through enforcement" by making life so harsh for undocumented immigrants that they would be driven from the state.
Meanwhile, Mr. Bush's aides and Pentagon officials describe what is going on as a war of attrition, against enemies whose resources are being depleted, suggesting they will eventually run out of steam.
The total layoffs associated with those moves were around 1,000 jobs, but another 3,700 jobs were trimmed through attrition, or as employees whose positions were affected took jobs elsewhere in the company.
Fiat now has its fifth chief executive in two years and, in Mr Montezemolo, its third chairman—a sapping rate of management attrition for a group whose finances have been haemorrhaging since 2000.
To the supporters of Arizona's law, the questioning requirement was the most salient part of the statute, whose stated purpose was to make attrition through enforcement the state's immigration policy.
The hazard of attrition was lower among adults whose CD4+ count at ART initiation was 200 cells/μL or greater, aHR 0.8 [95% CI: 0.6-1.0], compared to those who initiated ART with CD4+ counts below 200 cells/μL.
Compared to an experimental known, failure in Nobles Pond endscrapers is characterized by attrition, thus fits a Weibull model whose shape parameter β > 1.
Critics have argued that task shifting has become a "bandwagon" that is uncritically championed at the expense of existing health cadres, whose low pay and poor working conditions drive high attrition [ 13].
