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attrition
1. “That is insane! It would lead to extinction through attrition
2. You might also consider another vote on the attrition
3. “In the air this equates with a high rate of attrition, i
4. I pointed out that I had only been an arban commander because I had seen through the rebel ruse in Anahuac and had only been further promoted because of the great attrition in the Maya tumen
5. The Court’s insurgency had become a judicial war of attrition against democratic principles of the Constitution, and the Court was winning
6. David Gelernter, editor and a national fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, sees the killing of Terri Schiavo as part of a concerted war of attrition against Judeo-Christian morality
7. There was an attrition issue (staff leaving the company) but
8. ‘Instead, we just let attrition take its effect
9. The year-cycles of the war of attrition before the Lost One returned to them had, in themselves, been marked with pain and loss, but had taken place over a period of moons, not all at once as in this most recent war
10. Rotation to the land of the Big PX combined with shoot-downs had caused attrition within the 531st
11. Others argue that it was not a single battle, but the gradual attrition of the hssswwx by the human forces
12. "So it's a war of attrition," said Calvin
13. Even with some attrition that can be expected from the training, we have more than enough women to fill our immediate needs
14. I have opened up a mountain for the Tolteca to safely rest, this impregnable stronghold is in the mountains to the west and will henceforth be called Bo-elon, after this meeting, you will collect everything you need and leave Tollan and go to Bo-elon, you have only two days before the collectors arrive, so make haste, from our stronghold we will wage a war of attrition, hit hard and run, we cannot meet them on the field yet, but I promise that day will come, we can expect no quarter and we will give no quarter, any Tolteca slaves will rejoin us, the rest will not be harmed or taken, they will be sent back to Teotihuacan or where-ever they want to go, there will be no heroics, no one on one encounters, we cannot afford any losses and be warned I will not tolerate anybody playing stupid games with the enemy, we will fight from a distance, using the weapons of surprise and fear, we will not give them an enemy to fight, at Bo-elon our warriors have been training in these tactics, the best bowmen have been formed into a regiment, The Toxon, to begin our campaign it will be these warriors that exact our revenge on the Teoti and his forces, never again will any tyrant grind the proud Tolteca under his heel, now go and pack your belongings, there will be a guide in the main square to escort you to Bo-elon where you will find the rest of the Toltec nation, because of that treacherous priest, Tollan is the last settlement to leave, remember the gods fight with you, if you remain true to them you cannot lose, now go quickly
15. The Teoti had no answer to these new tactics of attrition introduced by Coatl and kept sending out the tax collectors even though very few ever returned to Teotihuacan
16. Industry faces a high cost in attrition as analytics is a combination of complex skills that are hard to find and
17. job satisfaction and high attrition rate
18. This resulted in a decisive aerial battle of attrition that became immortalised as the Battle of Britain, and it officially opened on August 13th 1940, “Eagle Day”
19. Germany could not match those numbers, and a sustained battle of attrition strongly favoured Russia
20. The Bombing offensive is above all, a tale of courage and it is unfortunate that so many fine young men died because their commander was stalemated into a battle of attrition
21. This resulted in a steady attrition of Italian shipping that had a marked effect on their supplies to North Africa
22. The entry of the United States into the war, plus the resurgence of the RAF's offensive power slowly eroded the Luftwaffe's strength in a war of attrition
23. The army of mighty Alexander that swept through Asia Minor, Mesopotamia and Iran had enough; having quit after seven long years of attrition
24. In that war of attrition, after having nearly collapsed in the early months, it was the Soviets that eventually turned the tide and gained a lasting advantage as German armament production and personnel couldn’t keep pace with the massive losses abroad, damage from Allied bombing raids at home, and shortages of oil and other fital foreign materials
25. wall-and-see-who-sticks” mentality that is largely responsible for the attrition rate in
26. So our passions were locked in a painful stalemate that night; her man’s arrival the next day barred my further moves to checkmate her on our love-board of attrition
27. A more experienced craftsman might have done a better job but for me it was a game of attrition
28. She was aware that the attrition of time would overtake her
29. realised that in this battle of attrition, it was a
30. conducted a war of attrition, denying Richard the quick
31. A certain amount of list attrition is natural and with
32. The logical solution is to reduce government size by attrition
33. The previous batch of heretics had lost too many to attrition en route from Gorath to Zion, and Zhaspahr Clyntahn wanted as many candidates for the Punishment as he could get
34. In general, options shorts do have the wind at their back in that they have daily attrition working in their favor
35. Five years later, with the attrition rate of buy-and-holders approaching 100%, the DR was dramatically higher
36. You win through a war of attrition
37. It is known that this rock wears away rapidly under the attrition of water; and the supposition does not appear improbable, that, in the lapse of ages, so large a creek as that which flows below the bridge, may have worn as deep a ravine as that which now strikes us with so much surprise, In short, may not a cave have been originally formed where the ravine is now, and the pending portion of it have fallen in at every place except that which now forms this celebrated natural curiosity?
38. The writer believes that the Scioto, from its source to the Ohio river, does not descend more than one hundred feet, and that the present surface of Lake Erie is about on a level with the Ohio in a freshet; that before the channel of Niagara river was deepened, as it evidently has been, by the attrition of that mighty stream; and before the hills adjacent to the Ohio were worn down by the waters of the Scioto, the whole country north of Chillicothe, where these hills commence, to Lake Erie inclusive, was covered with water, except the very highest hills in the counties of Greene, &c
39. Apparently, in a great measure, unaware of the nature of the preparation, he had placed it, unmixed with any thing, on an earthen plate, which stood on a table; his wife and children being around, he sat down to distribute the powder upon several papers which he had prepared for the purpose; sand and shot are mixed with the powder in the papers for the purpose of giving momentum, and of producing attrition when the torpedo is thrown, in order to ensure its explosion
40. on which the materials being minutely divided by attrition, are in a better state for the sun to act freely on, and will consequently yield greater products than equal areas of undisturbed surface, under like circumstances of heat
41. The smallest rivulet often has a trench ten feet deep; and the earth over which it passes, is continually yielding to its gentle attrition
42. maintains, that the channel of the Niagara river has been worn down "several hundred feet" by the attrition of its waters
43. When composed of a single layer only, it much resembles a Flustra, or a Cellapore of which the convex surfaces have been removed by attrition
44. It is very irregular, and to the very top bears marks of the attrition of waves
45. I exhibit a quartzite pebble taken from the Triassic sandstone at Stanlow Point, which, as can be easily seen, was at one time worn perfectly smooth by attrition and long-continued wear, for the quartzite is very hard