And just as the biosphere has been severely eroded, so too is the ethnosphere

Remedying the adverse effects of erosion in a wider context

In many areas, the principle of humanitarianism is gradually being eroded.

They were as old as erosions in a fishless desert.

At a deeper level traditions are eroded with their sacred beliefs.

In some SIDS, the topsoils are very thin and susceptible to rapid erosion.

A splinter of glass wounded Gregor in the face, some corrosive medicine or other dripped over him.

The titanium used is 42 percent lighter and three times stronger than steel and is highly corrosion resistant.

Geological resistance is a measure of how well minerals resist erosive factors, and is primarily based on hardness, chemical reactivity and cohesion.

To be sure, Iran s alliances are vulnerable to erosion and, in the case of two staunch allies, Syria and Venezuela, to outright collapse.

The world apos s land surface is eroding from the effects of desertification and people of desert ridden developing countries are living in untold misery.

If mixture (i) is already classified based on the criteria in table 3.10.1, then mixture (ii) can be assigned the same hazard category.

The steepness of our mountains, added to biological and meteorological activities such as the rain, wind and temperature changes that are characteristic of tropical climates, makes our country prone to severe erosion, landslides and flooding.

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.

He warned against the risk of overestimating the magnitude of preference erosion for LDCs and noted that the adverse impact of erosion was being felt equally severely by several non LDCs. The most fundamental problems faced by LDCs did not directly relate to the issue of preference erosion.

For some LDCs, the elimination of quotas for textile products, while involving maintained preferences, may have more severe socio economic consequences than the hypothetical scenario of full erosion of preferences summarized in table 7.

Furthermore, oceans have been characterized as an infinite reservoir of high quality food, anti biofouling and anti corrosion substances, biosensors, biocatalysts, biopolymers and other industrially important compounds.78

So the shareholders chose to cash in on a temporary bonus, taking a risk on the progressive erosion of the firm, and perhaps the end of its policy of focusing on high quality while treating its workers with respect.

To be sure, Iran s alliances are vulnerable to erosion and, in the case of two staunch allies, Syria and Venezuela, to outright collapse. The end of Chavismo would threaten Iran s vast interests in Venezuela and its considerable presence in the Andes, while the fall of the Assad dynasty would be a devastating blow to Iran s regional strategy.