Should the base close, Mr. Carstensen said, it would have a "profoundly corrosive" impact that would spread to other parts of New England.

The corrosive impact of poverty and crime on urban youth is not a new problem.

This lack of proper role model in addition to the "corrosive impact on an indigenous social order" led to the atrocious murder of the dog.

Mr. Tinawi and I then swapped impressions about the corrosive impact such security restrictions were having on foreigners' perceptions of America.

David Cameron has repeatedly warned of the corrosive impact that health and safety laws were having on some areas of British life.

The blend can't be pumped through petroleum pipelines because of the corrosive impact of its alcohol content, for example.

Executive pay has risen exponentially over the past three decades and the High Pay Commission today argues that it has had a "corrosive" impact on society.

Most of all, we have an obligation to insure that the corrosive impact of foreign corruption is blocked from our shores.

And most firms, still smarting from the corrosive impact that rising interest rates had on their bond inventories last year, have been careful to hedge their bets.

New York City's chief lawyer, Peter Zimroth, has come up with a bold way to reduce the corrosive impact of big money on political campaigns.