Just as Britain has devolved ever-greater powers to Scotland, so Spain has devolved power to Catalans and Basques.
What's now accepted as "discourse" has devolved horribly to fall below the least common denominator.
As consumers we have devolved our meter reading to the energy companies.
So far, Mr. Morsi has barely blinked, as the crisis had devolved into a deep social schism marked by episodes of deadly street violence, fisticuffs in union halls and an increasingly poisonous public debate.
As the season has devolved around him, Mangini has often invoked his connection to his estranged mentor, New England Patriots Coach Bill Belichick: Mangini sees many similarities between the Browns this season and the Patriots of 2000, and how Belichick's practice schedule is like Mangini's.
Some versions, as in France and Great Britain, have devolved into two-tier public and private systems.
(I am omitting the obvious racism, the letters from people that use slurs such as "chink," which have devolved on the internet into anonymous gibberish).
And thus it appears to be with these debt ceiling events, as this one has devolved into one more media extravaganza.
Mr. Obama's pitch has devolved just as drastically.
Faris would be calling back many of the period's memorable female roles — a bittersweet exercise, as women's roles have devolved, and she's had a hard time finding a part as spiky as Sigourney Weaver's in "Working Girl," let alone one as nuanced as Melanie Griffith's.
