Sentence examples for cycle of debasement from inspiring English sources

In order to ensure that all taxes were paid in full, and to halt the cycle of debasement and inflation, he completely reformed the coinage, issuing a new gold hyperpyron (highly refined) coin for the purpose.

And why is it that our imaginations thrill to stories of debasement and physical threat?

After a period of debasement, blank verse was restored to its former grandeur by John Milton in Paradise Lost (1667).

Mr. Browder sees the emergence in developed countries of "debasement inflation" - or rising prices with no growth.

The atmosphere of debasement and indignity in the White House, it appears, is contagious.

Do we still have a shred of our decency intact in the face of debasement?

A hideous town, pointed up by the insulting gardens of its rich, full of the human spirit at a new low of debasement".

"The burqa is not a religious sign," Mr Sarkozy said last year, but rather a "sign of subservience, a sign of debasement" of women.

The sense was that art making should be an act of debasement and destruction: a breaking down, rather than a building up.

Inherent Vice has a dazzling and often entertaining atmosphere of debasement, like a smiley face rotting from the inside.

You cannot preach from a place of debasement.