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And ultimately this creates steadily eroding trust among voters for not just politics but the institutions of government.

But from there we had Watergate, stagflation, oil embargos, eroding American power in the world, growing income inequality, etc.

With its industrial base eroding, Chicago is no longer a strategic hub for any key industry.

Living vicariously through his teammates was better than being home, preoccupied each day with his eroding strength.

Recession and inflation are eroding the money of millions more.

These materials, driven along by the stream, become eroding tools of very considerable energy.

It is now known that cirques are produced primarily by the eroding action of the ice masses embedded in them.

At the falls the river has several times changed its course in eroding first one soft spot, then another.

On this incline the water became a powerful eroding agent, and finally cut its channel to its present depth.

It is a kind of clay on which the eroding power of water has little effect.