Outraged purists have accused him of "degenerating" Islam and fought to block his promotion.
It is the latest instance of an Indian party degenerating into a vehicle for a self-serving family dynasty.
"Western confrontational democracy would not be a good thing in our country because it risks degenerating into regionalism, factionalism and ethnicity .Not everyone in Mali agrees and the notion that adversarial politics means chaos has often been cited as justification for dictators elsewhere on the continent.
The worst risk degenerating into the slums they were meant to replace.But the government's canny decision to set minimum standards and maximum prices and turn the job over to the private sector means MCMV is easy to tweak.
The OFT criticises this blunt approach, which risks degenerating into "a strategic game in which firms attempt to guess the level of forthcoming price cuts" and the health department "attempts to second guess this effect in setting the level of price cuts".The competition authority advocates a root-and-branch reform to the scheme in 2010, when it is next due to be revisited.
Nor is it hard to imagine some conflict between president and Congress degenerating into partisan warfare.So if Mr Bush does win, the immediate post-election period could prove an early and ferocious test of his claim to be "a uniter, not a divider".
Trying sometimes too hard to be clever and degenerating into the literary equivalent of the strange-bedfellows buddy-flick, this cheaper offering does not do much to sponsor the author's talents.The nice thing about his structure is that one can cherry-pick.
As the states weigh the merits of Mr Howard's scheme, the river is degenerating further.
But its huge credit-card and overseas-loan portfolios remain outside, and are degenerating fast.
He is generally sympathetic to his host country, dismissing the charge that America is degenerating into a theocracy and even finding a few kind words for the neoconservatives.
Nonetheless, if the conventional wisdom that steroids lead to more offence has any truth to it, and if testing has at least deterred some players from using them, then TJS may have been the only thing keeping baseball at the height of the "steroid era" from degenerating into a beer-league-softball-style slugfest.
