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erosion

Erosion is the loss of land because of water and wind. Farming increases soil erosion by breaking up soil structure, and reducing the number of plants. Footpath erosion is a significant problem in all the UK's national parks. Erosion is a slow loss of something. The new plan should stop the erosion of support for the idea. An erosion is a shallow lesion that is usually found on the skin or in tissue of the epithelium.

erosion

(= wearing) (geology) the mechanical process of wearing or grinding something down (as by particles washing over it) a gradual decline of something after the accounting scandal there was an erosion of confidence in the auditors condition in which the earth's surface is worn away by the action of water and wind erosion by chemical action

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  • What words refer to soil being washed away by rain?

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I'm preparing a report on soil erosion at the moment.
But James Morton and Mr. Leffingwell felt that communism. would come as a result of the erosion of our form of government.
I've never seen erosion in such an advanced stage.
And the evidence seems pretty conclusive that.. ithasn'tbeencovered by erosion or other forces.
In the normal course of erosion. this skeleton will be exposed on the surface. in approximately 3000 years.
Seventy-two centimeters, allowing for salt water erosion and subsequent small predator tissue attacks.
In other words, the unorthodox tendencies towards ownlife. which constantly threaten the natural erosion of the family unit. will no longer have the biological support of the organism.
It's just erosion.
There's topsoil being washed away. No erosion programs.
Computer, there's an erosion of tissue in the lymphatic system.
I see big problems with beach erosion. and a heavy mortgage.
You- - You're not afraid of beach erosion, right?
Beach erosion?
Erosion.
And then the erosion up north washed down unusually large supplies of calcium to this part.
Consequently the cattle areas are continually being over-grazed and this leads to soil erosion.
And the evidence seems pretty conclusive that it hasn't been covered by erosion or other forces.
Did she know I was breaking up because I loved her too much, because I wanted to save our love by sparing it the slow erosion every relationship goes through?
There are signs of erosion, of imminent deterioration.
In France, be it a dome or shield volcano, volcanos subjected to erosion have over time become structures which are more or less preserved.
Start with the chapter on erosion.
Blind, ruthless cutting on a slope like that, erosion will wash the soil away.
I have seen the erosion of power in my country.
A masterpiece of nature formed by 6 million years of erosion and seismic upheaval.
In other words, the unorthodox tendencies towards ownlife, which threaten the natural erosion of the family unit, will no longer have the biological support of the organism.
Erosion of skills, lack of confidence, depression.
Erosion may have changed the structure of the cliffs.
The forces of erosion, frost and rain, snow and ice, shattered the volcanic rocks into fragments.
The paw has been buried in the sand until recently and protected from erosion.
Slow erosion wipes out information.
On the Earth mountain ranges are destroyed by erosion in maybe tens of millions of years small impact craters in maybe hundreds of thousands of years.
They're produced from bigger rocks through ages of jostling and rubbing, abrasion and erosion. Driven in part by the distant moon and sun.
It's a pity about the erosion.
The process of erosion.

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But US policy choices are responsible for the erosion of America's competitiveness.
One challenge is the need to arrest the erosion of America's relative power, which in turn requires comprehensive domestic renewal, including fiscal consolidation.
If the IMF imposes fiscal contraction or a misguided strategy for restructuring the financial sector (as it did in Indonesia), then the economy will be weakened and this will lead to a further erosion of confidence.
Land conversion for grazing (and construction), together with crop tillage, has also caused soil erosion at 15 times its natural rate.
Indeed, at its current pace, anthropogenic soil erosion would fill the Grand Canyon in 50 years.
Increasingly obsessed at the prospect of its own citizens and practices coming under international scrutiny, America has over the past few years contributed to the general erosion of the UN human rights monitoring system.
The erosion in public support for Bush's Iraq policy is stark.
They are also contributing to a third revolution, the erosion of the sovereignty--and thus the authority--of the nation state.
Now, however, the economic tumult shaking Europe, the erosion of the middle class in the West, and the growing social inequalities worldwide are undermining capitalism's claim to universal triumph.
At the international level, the standing of US-supplied public goods (including the dollar as the global reserve currency) faces gradual erosion.
But the fact is that the advance of democracy historically entailed the erosion of shared values and the rise of individual autonomy.
Even the world's oldest continuous democracy is not immune to the erosion of self-governance.
Hispaniola suffered the worst fate of deforestation, soil erosion, and collapse of agricultural productivity, especially on the Haitian side.
After slavery ended, the once beautiful island could barely sustain the former slave populations because the soils were exhausted by overuse and erosion.
But their main effect may be an erosion of reasoned debate and civil conduct, without which democracy is powerless against the forces of polarization and extremism.
This year's snowmelt caused landslides and flooding - a warning of more soil erosion and destruction of arable land to come; hundreds died and thousands lost their livelihoods.
The erosion is traceable to several factors, including deficiencies in primary and secondary education as well as poor macroeconomic management.
The erosion of support for the government is due to its inefficiency: inflation is triple official forecasts, and basic foodstuffs and fuel are scarce and their supply irregular.
The result is that mounting concerns about the erosion of economic security, social stability, and cultural identity could not be handled through mainstream political channels.
So here, too, the logic points to a vicious circle: Slower growth leads to artificial remedies and further erosion of long-term growth potential.
A process of erosion, catalyzed by British diplomacy, was under way.
To be sure, Iran's alliances are vulnerable to erosion and, in the case of two staunch allies, Syria and Venezuela, to outright collapse.
But many member states reject a common European effort, a stance that threatens to accelerate the erosion of solidarity within the EU and reinforce the current trend toward disintegration.
One consequence is erosion of support for the EU among its member states' electorates.
And the pace of erosion could accelerate in the next two years.
A government that continues to settle the West Bank and refuses to negotiate with the Palestinians will face erosion of its international legitimacy, boycotts, and sanctions.

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