Sentences with phrase «serious erosion»

Early last week, unexpected winter floods tore away part of the diversion dam, causing serious erosion of the riverbanks.

Under these conditions the continued passivity of courts in the face of a rapidly expanding international regulatory apparatus raises constitutionally - related concerns about excessive executive power and risks serious erosion in the effective scope of judicial review.

Although a majority of the public continues to support the standards set by CCSSI, and supporters outnumber opponents by a two - to - one margin, trend lines show serious erosion in support.

In an essay on «Baptists and Church - State Issues in the Twentieth Century,» in the December 1987 American Baptist an issue he coedited, he gave fellow Baptists a well - deserved scolding for having forgotten their own contributions to separation of church and state and for the «serious erosion of ecclesiology which afflicts them....

Finally, at least partly as a function of these new forces, there has been serious erosion in the quantity and quality of effective mentoring in its traditional dyadic, «mentor mentee» format.

It is evident that there is a serious erosion or slippage in the language of theology today.

My concern was that Wilson could not establish the moral ground of his position; that he ran the risk then of fostering confusion among his own allies about the ground of their opposition to abortion; and that the allies who made themselves suggestible to his arguments were risking a serious erosion in the conviction that they summoned to this issue.

«There has been a serious erosion of government support for housing at the federal and state levels since the 1990s,» he said.

Perhaps a tacit acceptance of the fact that the world is more obsessed with Android right now while Windows is suffering from a serious erosion of its user base given the phenomenal increase in usage of smartphones and tablet device which itself has given rise to an entire set of accessories centered around them.

I'm pleased to announce that because of that land reclamation initiative, the serious erosion that has happened and plagued this park has been halted.

«When they are global problems that can only be addressed through multilateralism... this represents a serious erosion of humanity's institutional capability to deal with problems we have put before ourselves.»

This demotion due to his disability created a serious erosion of the working relationship... [more]

This demotion due to his disability created a serious erosion of the working relationship.