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Example sentences for: erode

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Regulators, bureaucrats, and a "New Class" of mandarins are using their authority to erode individual liberty.
Telephony . The Telecommunications Act is intended to erode the local-phone-service monopoly enjoyed by the seven regional "Baby Bells " (and by AT&T for most of a century before that).
The federal government worries that the Internet could become a global haven for money launderers and tax evaders . States and localities worry that increasing use of the Internet will erode their tax bases as consumers and businesses shop and do business outside of their taxing jurisdictions.
For this reason, releasing the Windows source code might not instantly erode Microsoft's dominance in PC operating systems unless a great number of software engineers applied themselves to the effort.
The sidewalk, they counseled, caused the sea to erode, rather than build, the important dune that, with its beach grass and surrounding "berm colonizers," protects the beach and the north end of the island.