Sentences with phrase «by the erosion of»

If they experience themselves always as losers, they may become wearied by the erosions of adversity.

But if we compare these gains with the permanent loss to those peoples of the services performed by the forests, the damage to the rivers and to the agricultural lands by the erosion of the mountainsides, the loss of fisheries, and so forth, one can hardly judge that the lot of the people has been improved.

Unlike the devitalized, there is no sense of «barren gullies in their lives left by the erosion of earlier satisfactions.»

Modern culture, which coincides in Habermas's view with the period since the Reformation, is typified chiefly by an erosion of confidence in the validity of higher - order principles.

The signers of the statement «are particularly troubled by the erosion of American governmental support for Israel evident» in the U.S. decision to include the U.S.S.R. in planning for the Geneva talks.

And since any erosion of user confidence in you is likely to be accompanied by erosion of user confidence in us, we care deeply about making sure that the information you supply is accurate and that, in all respects, you treat other users of GrapeConnect fairly and honorably.

Last May, a Siberian reindeer herder named Yuri Khudi chanced upon the world's most intact mammoth remains, unearthed by erosion of a riverbank, and promptly turned them over to the natural history museum in the Russian town of Salekhard.

Antelope Canyon is a slot canyon formed by the erosion of the soft ever present Navajo sandstone.

Although not a typical crater formed by volcanic activity, the gigantic Haleakala Crater was created by erosion of the entire volcanic mountain top and is one of the most famous features of the park.

Access to justice has been seriously curtailed by the erosion of legal aid and the underfunding of our judicial institutions.

Not exact matches

Prices for gold bullion and other precious metals have climbed over the past decade to new heights as investors sought protection against the erosion of incomes and wealth by inflation.

From the book: «Within the banks of the deepest lake in South America is a marble «cathedral» formed by natural erosions.

While of course income helps, in reality, the main determinant of wealth (or erosion of) is dictated by your spending habits, and many people fall into the habit of spending more as they earn more.

Meanwhile, U.S. net imports of crude oil fell last week by 1.6 million bpd to 4.98 million bpd, the lowest level since the EIA started recording the data in 2001, reflecting further erosion in a market OPEC has been relying on for decades.

She questioned whether a single revelation could have persuaded some voters not to vote for Trump, saying «there's been a huge erosion of trust» as media outlets had allowed themselves to «become discredited» by partisans and politicians seeking to engage in a battle of disinformation.

However, there would be a decline in imports by Canada from the United States, resulting from erosion of U.S.'s NAFTA preferences in the Canadian market,» the analysis says.

And recent research suggests that for many people, spending in retirement declines enough to balance out the erosion of savings by inflation.

After being initially dazzled by the promise of the disruptive new model, regulators around the world have wisened up quickly to its negative side - effects — traffic congestion, public safety, and erosion of the tax base — and are now much more sensitive to the complaints of incumbents.

The move is aimed squarely at making Macy's more nimble as it looks to halt the erosion of its business by rivals like Amazon.com (amzn) TJX Cos's (tjx) T.J. Maxx, and Ulta Beauty (ulta).

These risks and uncertainties include: Gilead's ability to achieve its anticipated full year 2018 financial results; Gilead's ability to sustain growth in revenues for its antiviral and other programs; the risk that private and public payers may be reluctant to provide, or continue to provide, coverage or reimbursement for new products, including Vosevi, Yescarta, Epclusa, Harvoni, Genvoya, Odefsey, Descovy, Biktarvy and Vemlidy ®; austerity measures in European countries that may increase the amount of discount required on Gilead's products; an increase in discounts, chargebacks and rebates due to ongoing contracts and future negotiations with commercial and government payers; a larger than anticipated shift in payer mix to more highly discounted payer segments and geographic regions and decreases in treatment duration; availability of funding for state AIDS Drug Assistance Programs (ADAPs); continued fluctuations in ADAP purchases driven by federal and state grant cycles which may not mirror patient demand and may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; market share and price erosion caused by the introduction of generic versions of Viread and Truvada, an uncertain global macroeconomic environment; and potential amendments to the Affordable Care Act or other government action that could have the effect of lowering prices or reducing the number of insured patients; the possibility of unfavorable results from clinical trials involving investigational compounds; Gilead's ability to initiate clinical trials in its currently anticipated timeframes; the levels of inventory held by wholesalers and retailers which may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; Kite's ability to develop and commercialize cell therapies utilizing the zinc finger nuclease technology platform and realize the benefits of the Sangamo partnership; Gilead's ability to submit new drug applications for new product candidates in the timelines currently anticipated; Gilead's ability to receive regulatory approvals in a timely manner or at all, for new and current products, including Biktarvy; Gilead's ability to successfully commercialize its products, including Biktarvy; the risk that physicians and patients may not see advantages of these products over other therapies and may therefore be reluctant to prescribe the products; Gilead's ability to successfully develop its hematology / oncology and inflammation / respiratory programs; safety and efficacy data from clinical studies may not warrant further development of Gilead's product candidates, including GS - 9620 and Yescarta in combination with Pfizer's utomilumab; Gilead's ability to pay dividends or complete its share repurchase program due to changes in its stock price, corporate or other market conditions; fluctuations in the foreign exchange rate of the U.S. dollar that may cause an unfavorable foreign currency exchange impact on Gilead's future revenues and pre-tax earnings; and other risks identified from time to time in Gilead's reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC).

We seek to offset the erosion of financial assets by inflation, to realize appreciation so that the real value of assets is maintained.

In this study, the effects of sea level rise (assumed to continue at present, at the time of the study, rates, which the authors noted was likely conservative), wave fetch, wind speed and direction were examined and the resultant erosion rate was estimated for the Western and Eastern shore of Uppands, Port Isobel and Tangier Island by selecting 10 points along the western and eastern shoreline of all the islands.

The discussion draft is part of the process in responding to the OECD «Action Plan on Base Erosion and Profit Shifting» (BEPS), a tax transparency initiative which is aimed to be implemented by the end of 2015.

Further gains were mitigated, however, by continued fallout in the company's top - grossing PREVNAR vaccine franchise -LRB--8 %), overseas generic erosion on ENBREL -LRB--20 %), and weak domestic sales of fading blockbuster VIAGRA -LRB--17 %).

The report follows the endorsement by the G20 of the OECD «Action Plan on Base Erosion and Profit Shifting» (BEPS), the outcomes of which are aimed to be implemented by the end of 2015.

The governor said he issued an executive order Friday to halt the erosion of the bank's dwindling liquidity by allowing withdrawals only to fund necessary costs for health, public safety and education services.

This first one, on the warp speed of norm erosion in the Trump era, has the interesting feature that its shelf life was vastly shortened by the Mooch getting the bootch later in the very day I posted.

An added headwind is the seemingly steady trend towards more onerous conditions set by host countries for extractive industries in general, and the seemingly steady erosion of the rule of law in locales once thought to be safe for new investment.

Regulation Management In October the OECD's Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) project released a report outlining its progress on a series of steps it was taking to combat tactics — often legal but ethically questionable — used by many multinational companies to reduce or eliminate tax liabilities across their operations.

In its view, the company's repeated strategy shifts, missed expectations and what it characterizes as «undue optimism» have resulted in an erosion of management credibility, and by extension, shareholder value at the storied Wall Street firm.

Most of the ocean's salts were derived from gradual processes such the breaking up of the cooled igneous rocks of the Earth's crust by weathering and erosion, the wearing down of mountains, and the dissolving action of rains and streams which transported their mineral washings to the sea.

They're made of elements and impacted by all kinds of environmental changes: humidity, erosion, heat, physical stress, tectonic shifts.

Roughly by the year 250 BCE., the clearing of forests and the over-cultivation of Mayan agricultural lands had caused a great deal of soil erosion (see Deevey, et al.).

Over the course of a few years, there would be an erosion of the Church's public presence, as Catholic institutions find themselves burdened by fines and unable to offer health coverage.

In South America, in what is now Peru, the subjects of the Incan Empire had developed terrace cultivation, by which they obtained better harvests and also avoided soil erosion.

Until now free speech claims have been safe against such erosions, by a virtual consensus of our legal culture that political speech needs most protection precisely when it offends.

But in its neoliberal form it becomes a nightmare lived by the victims of unemployment, young people traumatized by the future, workers shut out of the productive system and nations subjected to structural adjustment, labour deregulation, the erosion of social security systems and the elimination of networks serving the poor.

The erosion by stealth of a common language defining the innate dignity of human sexuality has been clear for those with eyes to see.

One way of viewing the religious crisis of our time is to see it not in the first instance as a challenge to the intellectual cogency of Christianity, Buddhism, Islam, or other traditions, but as the gradual erosion, in an ever more complex and technological society, of the feeling of reciprocity with nature, organic interrelatedness with the human community, and sensitive attention to the processes of lived experience where the realities designated by religious symbols and assertions are actually to be found, if they are found at all.

The erosion of the soil in areas that have been abused for their mineral wealth, the pollution of the air where poor people live, are not just facts of nature; what we have is an ethical judgement on the exploitation of natural resources by the rich at the expense of the poor.

The Philippine organizers of the Global March mention following: widespread poverty and social inequality resulting in the erosion of the family's capacity to nurture and protect children, the rise of informal economy requiring simple skills and technologies, globalization of capitalism where underdeveloped nations provide the rich with cheap labor, disrupted family patterns due to migration, AIDS, etc. and inadequate basic services from government, including education, due to cut of the state budget of non-profit sectors to follow structural adjustment programme dictated by the IMF and the World Bank.

Edwards, on the other hand, traces a direct line between the erosion of public sector capacity and the imposition of one - size - fits - all policies of structural adjustment driven by international finance agencies during the Reagan - Thatcher years.

In one meeting, he learned that parts of Alaska are «already being destroyed by erosion, flooding and other forces».

Mainline Protestant losses are especially severe, a fact that has inspired several recent studies, including those contained in Beyond Establishment, edited by Roof and Jackson Carroll, which focuses on the erosion of denominational culture and identity.

The danger for preaching that lies in open sensitivity to the experiences of others is not in an erosion of authority by overexposure but in the overwhelming of the preacher's imagination.

In the fifth century before Christ are to be found both the climax of this culture and its erosion by the Sophists and Euripides as well as the rise of Socratic existence.

That erosion has been hastened by — among other things — two world wars and the unleashing of the atomic bomb.

One chapter in particular, «The Little Foxes», demonstrates how Dom Hugh can identify and articulate the very real temptation faced by all Christians to allow the erosion of prayer by what are seemingly «good» distractions... «lose prayer and you've lost.

Historically, this defeat was occasioned by the gradual erosion of the Newtonian understanding of the world, which both had accepted.

Pueblo people of the ancient American Southwest contributed to the region's aridity and its erosion cycle by destroying forests to fuel their kilns.