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Since then, however, Nielsen will report Thursday, the trade has seen «a slow erosion in both ebook and print unit sales.»

Slower price growth could also offset the impact of rising interest rates and slow the erosion in affordability.

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The second is the risk of slow, long - run erosion in real value (or failure to gain real value) in the portfolio due to overweighting low - return holdings.

While the rate of margin erosion could improve from negative 250 basis points in the past two years as the company slows down its investments and initiatives.

He may grab another man's sermon and handle it well, except for a hollow ring here and there and the subterranean sounds of his own soul crumbling in slow erosion.

Clinton also slowed the erosion of Democratic support among Catholic traditionalists, some three - fifths of whom backed other candidates in 1992 and 1996, and voted Republican in 1994.

It says something that in a list of weird disappointments, the slow erosion of the 2003 World Series team doesn't rate.

In my years as a commissioner, I witnessed the slow erosion of their positions of authority as well as respect for their individual constituencies.

Walk on trails to experience varieties in terrain, observe erosion and discover two methods used to slow erosion; play an active game that simulates water flowing downhill and how plant cover reduces erosion; and work as a team to create a model that maps the shapes and types of landforms and bodies of water at Moose Hill.

«Over the years there has been a slow, and sustained, erosion of legitimate adult authority in this country,» he said.

John McDonnell said that the slowdown in growth in the last quarter from the previous quarter showed a «slow erosion» of the British economy.

The manifestos are mixed on this issue: while the Conservatives show no inclination to slow down their erosion of the powers of local government when it comes to school places, and UKIP make little mention of it in relation to education, Labour want to return power to local authorities along with The Greens.

Other larger scale techniques like beach nourishment may have better track records, at least in terms of slowing or delaying beach erosion, but are expensive enough as to warrant massive taxpayer expenditures.

They found that high rates of carbon accumulation in lake sediments were stimulated by several factors, including «thermokarst erosion and deposition of terrestrial organic matter, -LSB-...] nutrient release from thawing permafrost that stimulated lake productivity, and by slow decomposition in cold, anoxic lake bottoms.»

In the new study, the researchers found that a fractured arm bone in newborn mice rapidly realigned through substantial movement of bone fragments rather than through bone remodeling — a slower process involving the simultaneous formation of new bone on one side and erosion of existing bone on the opposite sidIn the new study, the researchers found that a fractured arm bone in newborn mice rapidly realigned through substantial movement of bone fragments rather than through bone remodeling — a slower process involving the simultaneous formation of new bone on one side and erosion of existing bone on the opposite sidin newborn mice rapidly realigned through substantial movement of bone fragments rather than through bone remodeling — a slower process involving the simultaneous formation of new bone on one side and erosion of existing bone on the opposite side.

This chemical weathering process is too slow to damp out shorter - term fluctuations, and there are some complexities — glaciation can enhance the mechanical erosion that provides surface area for chemical weathering (some of which may be realized after a time delay — ie when the subsequent warming occurs — dramatically snow in a Snowball Earth scenario, where the frigid conditions essentially shut down all chemical weathering, allowing CO2 to build up to the point where it thaws the equatorial region, at which point runaway albedo feedback drives the Earth into a carbonic acid sauna, which ends via rapid carbonate rock formation), while lower sea level may increase the oxidation of organic C in sediments but also provide more land surface for erosion... etc..

In addition, higher prices for just one publisher's e-books would not change consumer perceptions enough to slow the erosion of consumer - perceived value of books that all the Publisher Defendants feared would result from Amazon's $ 9.99 pricing policy.

Coastal property owners typically seek to develop bulkheads in an attempt to slow large landslide erosion caused by wave action.

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Dr Yves Godderis said that the formation of these mountains meant that the rock weathering, which was threatening to slow to a walk through much of the supercontinent, was able to continue and the steep slopes of these Hercynian Mountains produced physical erosion occurring in a humid equatorial environment, this physical erosion promoted rock weathering and removing CO2 from the atmosphere.

With the cost of wind - generated electricity now competitive with that generated from fossil fuels, constructing rows of wind turbines in strategic areas to slow the wind could greatly reduce the erosion of soil.

Scientists studying naturally high carbon dioxide coral reefs in Papua New Guinea found that erosion of essential habitat is accelerated in these highly acidified waters, even as coral growth continues to slow.

1) tectonics — earthquakes and slow seismic events 2) erosion / sedimentation 3) isostatic rebound — response to a change in surface load (such as the removal of an ice sheet or deposition or removal of sediment)

Although scholars perceive an erosion of that doctrine (cf. D.A.J. Goldfine, K.M. Vorrasi, «The Fall of the Kodak Aftermarket Doctrine: Dying a Slow Death in the Lower Courts», Antitrust Law Journal 2004, p. 209 and D.T. Hibner, «Aftermarket Monopolization Claims Dismissed as Afterthought», Antitrust Law Blog 11 July 2011).

Making light of inflation could lead to slow but steady erosion of savings, making one land up in a financial chafe.

In Love Sense, Sue Johnson explores how and why relationships fail, by describing two types of «Unraveling Bonds» — those relationship bonds which fail through «slow erosion» and those which fail due to a «sudden snap.»

«The erosion in Canada's housing affordability was largely attributed to slower growth in household income compared to the rest of the year.