Sentence examples for before devolving from inspiring English sources

In his defence, Alan Milburn, the health secretary, argued last week that Labour's strategy has been to establish national standards in its first term, before devolving power in its second.

"Make the World Go Round" begins as a clever enough celebration of flash — "I need faces mad with frowns/ when I'm around/ or I'm wasting fabric" — before devolving into laziness: "Lately, I burn so much trees, I keep environmentalists angry".

These days, Alex and Allyson host regular full-moon bashes and celestial celebrations that begin with earnest spiritual ceremonies before devolving into late-night raves with touring DJs from the Burning Man-end of the dance music spectrum. .

Without going into details, the film gives us a perfectly moving and thoughtful finale before devolving into a brief montage that seems to exist only so we won't leave the theater in a funk.

We Can't Stop by Extreme Animals PHOTOS: Concerts by The Times _ Signals, which features former members of longtime Smell mainstays the Mae Shi, begin within a Kraftwerk-suggestive rhythm before devolving into a synth-voiced, hard-beated breakdown that would throw Hollywood velvet-rope types into fits of tantrums.

PHOTOS: Concerts by The Times On "Bird Call," a gem of a rhythm built by Clams Casino, features a beat that spins with an undercurrent of psychedelia while Miller relays the tale of a night spent on weed and thinking about the future: "I used to care... about success/Now I just want to see Mila Kunis undress," he rhymes before devolving into X-rated lyrics detailing the experience.

The exchange seems to start off earnestly, before quickly devolving into titles like "The Summer of Sneakers and Genies," "Taco Meat Drips on Nipples 2" and about two dozen other non-sequitur and NSFW suggestions.

Then there is Niagara Falls, before it devolved into a honeymoon destination.

Decades before "performance" devolved into a buzzword, the Whitney was hosting radical live art of all stripes in its former Marcel Breuer-designed quarters uptown, from Ornette Coleman on saxophone to Trisha Brown scaling the walls.

It's some of the best stuff she's done since the 2008 RNC (before she devolved into speeches composed of a miscellany of punchlines and red-meat-for-the-rubes bumper stickering).

(The climax of "Antitrust," before it devolves into old-fashioned chasing and shooting, is essentially a speed-typing contest between Milo and Winston.) The director, Peter Howitt, has hit on a strategy of wild overcompensation, feverishly cross-cutting between Milo's frenzied keystrokes and various bad guys lumbering down darkened corridors.