The cricket had degenerated into a game of patience and there really is not the time for that now.
It all happened very fast, a chain of events that degenerated very quickly".
Under Abdullah, Saudi Arabia degenerated into multiple fiefdoms with each senior prince striving to exercise authority at the expense of the others.
Relations between father and daughter degenerated into a public spat last week after Le Pen Sr, 86, reiterated his assertion that the Holocaust was a "mere detail" in the history of the second world war, and lauded the Vichy government that collaborated with the Nazis, among other provocative statements.
The match degenerated into a brawl, but Hidegkuti was not involved.
Palestinian sources told the Ma'an news agency that the meeting, which broke up at four in the morning, had degenerated into a "fierce political battle" in which Livni threatened to impose "endless sanctions" on the Palestinians, while Saeb Erekat threatened Palestinians would go the International Criminal Court at the Hague to try Israeli leaders as "war criminals".
Since his 2002 landslide thrust Turkey into a new era that started with great promise and in recent years, by general consensus, has degenerated into whimsy and authoritarianism, Erdoğan has led the AKP to three election victories, increasing its vote every time and securing comfortable absolute majorities in the 550-seat parliament in Ankara.
Instead, preparations for the games have degenerated into some of the ugliest verbal confrontations for years between China and its critics.
Since then, the country has clung to the belief that society has become so universally middle-class that class itself has almost become meaningless.Yet after the boom years of the 1980s degenerated into the lost decade of the 1990s, increasing income inequality, unemployment and social dislocation have begun to tarnish that alluring image.
In an era when politics has degenerated into tawdry glitz, Canada seems to have bucked the trend.
Yet they can only lament that their revolution, launched with such courage and hope, should so soon have degenerated into political farce.
