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Example sentences for: erode

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If approved, the hold-the-line request for LSC means its budget would erode with inflation for another year, but it could be worse for the organization: Many conservatives fought for years to do away with the LSC altogether, saying legal services attorneys were spending too much time fighting for liberal causes or pursuing politically charged cases against the government instead of representing the needy.
It has taken 25 years since the first big push toward austerity and deregulation in the '70s to seriously erode the liberal welfare state, and there is still major resistance to the privatization of Social Security, significant erosion of Medicare, and so on.
So these new drugs erode accepted distinctions between worrisome abnormalities and the normal variations of human life.
The United States cannot see its competitiveness and prosperity erode for the benefit of developing nations that, for whatever reason, will not be required to abide by the strict impositions of a global-climate treaty.
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.