Awkwardly for environmentalists, Nature put corrosive bitumen in the dirt.

Not all prisons succumb to these corrosive and polarizing dynamics.

Such rent creating corruption is quite expensive and corrosive of growth.

Growing institutional disaffection has become a corrosive reality almost everywhere in Europe.

The Convention covers toxic and eco toxic, poisonous, explosive, corrosive, flammable, and infectious wastes.

That is, in addition to an appropriate acute toxicity symbol, a corrosivity symbol (used for skin and eye corrosivity) may be added along with a corrosivity hazard statement such as corrosive or corrosive to the respiratory tract. .

The tar sands are hundreds of square kilometers of bitumen, a viscous and corrosive tarlike deposit.

Pursue work on classification criteria for substances which, in contact with water, release toxic corrosive gases

Noting the corrosive effect that corruption has on democracy, development, the rule of law and economic activity,

Better Governance African governments often boast when they simply stop the corrosive effects of corruption and irrational business regulation.

Solid substances (powders) may become corrosive or irritant when moistened or in contact with moist skin or mucous membranes. .

It will have corrosive effects on the quality of policymaking, as well as undermine Turkey s claim to global economic standing.

This is why former President Dmitri Medvedev s rise and fall, staged like a soap opera, has played a socially corrosive role.

Spillover effects are inevitable, and once a corrosive increase in inflationary expectations sets in, it becomes all the more painful to unwind.

Schools have the power to be little more than enclaves from the corrosive strength of social influences on how the mind works.

The Office of the Attorney General of Colombia said 190 attacks involving acid or a corrosive substances have been recorded since 2012.

While corrosive immobility is a trademark of the Syrian regime, these challenges threaten to reinforce each other and marginalize Syria internationally even more so than today.

Money has become a corrosive agent that is eroding and redefining the democratic process, with the mobilization of personal energies giving way to the enlargement of campaign budgets.

I'm telling you this story because Archie Cochrane, all his life, fought against a terrible affliction, and he realized it was debilitating to individuals and it was corrosive to societies.

In the long run, of course, both types of corruption are corrosive of the respect and trust that good governance requires, which can undermine economic performance in its own right.

But here, I only want to make the point that the elegance of Darwinism is corrosive to religion precisely because it is so elegant, so parsimonious, so powerful, so economically powerful.

Many more suffer from the meager growth and barely rising incomes that result from the toxic combination of government overspending, burdensome regulations, and corrosive taxation. Much of Europe fits this category of economic stagnation.

This turn towards authoritarianism bodes ill for the Turkish economy, despite its strong fundamentals. It will have corrosive effects on the quality of policymaking, as well as undermine Turkey s claim to global economic standing.

A drawback is that gallium compounds are corrosive and so if the plutonium is recovered from dismantled weapons for conversion to plutonium dioxide for power reactors, there is the difficulty of removing the gallium.

But that does not mean that the European Union is safe from divisive forces. On the contrary, the return of nationalism, even (and especially) in the countries that constituted the EU s founding core more than 60 years ago, represents a less spectacular but potentially more corrosive threat to European unity.

Such rent creating corruption is quite expensive and corrosive of growth. By contrast, in China, the corruption has largely been of the profit sharing variety, whereby family members are given a stake in the enterprise so that their earnings increase as profits increase a type of corruption that promotes growth.