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Yet for many, it seemed a step too far in government intrusions after a year and counting of a dignity-eroding pandemic.

That started to erode after the two officers were assaulted last week.

Otherwise, we morally erode the environment to be the type that makes interaction with others so difficult in the first place.

It serves as a potent reminder that the cost in lives of one war can erode the will of a people to fight another.

Failure to secure their quick release can erode voter confidence and advertise the impotence of government.

A failure to act “would erode, perhaps obliterate” the taboo against such weapons.

The ages that it had taken this stream to erode such a bed for itself was beyond imagination.

There has not been time to erode them away since the Pleistocene glaciation.

The area up-stream from the culvert will not erode below the level of the top of the box at the inlet end.

It would take a lot of time to erode away that much massive stone.

As a result, there is a substantial defense imbalance that will erode fighting power.