He could taste the familiar tang of museum air - an arid, deionized essence that carried a faint hint of carbon - the product of industrial, coal-filter dehumidifiers that ran around the clock to counteract the corrosive carbon dioxide exhaled by visitors.
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This bill is replete with gimmicks, ... It hides 45 billion in budgetary sleight of hand. This would be laughable if it wasn't so corrosive to the public's perception of what we are doing.
If the strain is not relieved, it will have highly corrosive and long-term effects on the military.
A vote for real campaign finance reform will end the corrosive influence of special interest money, and level the playing field so that all Americans can participate and be heard,
Man cannot produce a single work without the assistance of the slow, assiduous, corrosive worm of thought.
There are signs that the long-term drivers of prosperity are weakening. The loss of our competitive edge is a continuing corrosive process, which threatens our economic well-being in the long term.
Negro poverty is not white poverty, ... Many of its causes and many of its cures are the same. But there are differences - deep, corrosive, obstinate differences, radiating painful roots into the community and into the family and the nature of the individual. These differences are not racial differences. They are solely and simply the consequence of ancient brutality, past injustice and present prejudice. They are anguishing to observe. For the negro they are a constant reminder of oppression.
A very Faustian choice is upon us: whether to accept our corrosive and risky behavior as the unavoidable price of population and economic growth, or to take stock of ourselves and search for a new environmental ethic.
That creates the appearance of government for sale. It feeds a growing public suspicion that campaign donors are treated differently, that they're given favors in state government. Of course that has an enormous corrosive effect on public confidence in our state government.
Evil is always devising more corrosive misery through man's restless need to exact revenge out of his hate.
With pipelines coming back on line and increased imports arriving from foreign sources, there appears to be plenty of crude oil, Knight said. The problem is not having the capacity to run it, ... Some may be down because they don't have power, and some may be more serious because of flooding, corrosive damage. We don't have accurate information.
The water will be softened and less corrosive. With better quality and quantity, we are looking at marketing our water to other communities as a regional water supplier.
They are made out of very corrosive materials. Yet the charge from the government is that this warhead -- which is made of these materials which are not happy with each other -- should remain perfectly safe and reliable indefinitely.
I fought for McCain-Feingold because I believed it was not just consistent with the Constitution, it was necessary to preserve its basic promise of one person, one vote and stop the corrosive influence of big money on our political system,