Hamas's position is that Israel is still to blame for the debasement of Gaza.
"One of the worst legacies of the Giuliani era is the mayor's repeated debasement of the process for revising the city's basic constitution, its charter," he said.
Sports, which once stood for valor and courage, sank to the debasement of violence and brutality for fun and game.
Furthermore, this approach, by placing the emphasis on the economic arguments, which did not seem to provide a very robust argumentation, was contributing to debasement of the public support for education.
Gold is used in worship, godly wisdom is compared to gold and the Hebrew prophets used the debasement of metals as a metaphor for immorality.
LESLIE WIESENFELDER and his wife, Phyllis, are not what you would call big donors to political campaigns -- certainly not the kind of fat cats singled out by reformers for contributing to a debasement of the democratic process.
It's not about settlement building or the daily debasement of human dignity under occupation, for both the occupiers and occupied.
If we have a culture that allows for persistent dehumanization and debasement of ourselves and others, we're stripping individuals, and communities of their power....what of those feelings of powerlessness and the connection to violence?
What appears like a high price for gold simply reflects the debasement of the dollar and the expectation of more of the same.
When students are in a panic over how to fill their hours, it leads to a debasement of community service that mistakes quantity for quality, these critics say.
