But there are moments when the group's brutality and degraded character can be given an exact address, as when, in Raqqa, the Syrian town that serves as its base, prisoners were beheaded and their remains put on display along the Naem Roundabout.
In this paper, we investigate the application of dynamic Bayesian networks (DBNs) to the recognition of degraded characters.
"Friday Night Lights" is one of many series that venerate ambition in part by default, degrading characters who lack it.
"It was really very upsetting at first," she said, "because I thought of all people to degrade my character, I wouldn't have thought it would be the journalists to do it".
He acknowledged that slavery violated the natural rights of slaves and that conflicts over slavery might one day lead to the dissolution of the union, but he also believed that, given alleged innate racial differences and deeply held prejudices, emancipation would inevitably degrade the character of the republic and unleash violent civil strife between blacks and whites.
(4) One of the primary reasons war - especially protracted war - is so destructive is not merely that it kills the populations at whom it is aimed, but it also radically degrades the character of the citizenry that wages it.
The environmental impacts of such rapid economic changes have been, more frequently than otherwise, degrading in character.
Among the casualties has been Bytedance, the extremely high-flying $20 billion media unicorn startup that was forced to publicly apologize for content that degraded the character of the nation.
Brutally pejorative reactions to his ethnicity come to define his character, "degrading" him as Catherine says.
Walcott criticised the "low tactics" and the "low and degrading attempt at character assassination" the election had become.
Walcott had withdrawn from the race earlier this month after some 200 Oxford academics were anonymously sent a package containing photocopied pages from the book detailing the allegations made against him, criticising the "low tactics", and the "low and degrading attempt at character assassination" the election had become.
