By the time the second world war broke out, he was seriously unwell, suffering from a degenerating heart condition, yet he didn't spare himself in the fight for Britain's economic survival.
On the other hand, I have gout, acid reflux, a degenerating tendon in my right foot, tinnitus — the result of some ill-advised scuba lessons in the Caribbean a couple of winters ago — and tendinitis in my left elbow, which kept me from straightening my arm for a good part of last year.
In contrast, a degenerating research programme is characterized by theories being fabricated only in order to accommodate known facts.
What the Zimbabwe Defence Forces is actually doing is to pacify a degenerating political, social and economic situation in our country, which if not addressed may result in a violent conflict.
I could go on to include the threat of global water shortages, inflation, a weakened dollar, ballooning interest payments on our national debt, a degenerating infrastructure, increased job losses, raw material shortages, the housing crisis, failing healthcare and educational systems, global population growth, plummeting fish populations, deforestation, pollution, terrorism, etc., etc.
As a consequence, a degenerating transcriptional profile that produces novel molecular species, and at the same time reduces those which we can not measure with a particular technology, would look increasingly more ordered.
