Sentence examples for degrade not only from inspiring English sources

America is a great democracy, but it is hard to remember that sometimes these days as we listen to the candidates and their surrogates degrade not only their rivals, but everyone who questions their positions.

The enzyme mixture used contains a wide variety of proteins, which are expected to degrade not only cellulose, but also xylan and mannan.

Organisms must degrade not only aberrantly folded or misprocessed RNAs, but also functional RNA transcripts that are no longer needed by the cell.

uPA as a serine protease converts plasminogen to plasmin, a broad-spectrum enzyme able to degrade not only fibrin, but also proteins of the joint extracellular matrix and cartilage [ 12].

The group has found that Fe-TAMLs together with hydrogen peroxide can rapidly degrade not only estrogenic compounds, but also bacterial spores similar to those of anthrax, sulfur compounds in motor fuels, dyes in textile mill wastewater, and organic colorants discharged from pulp and paper mills.

Mr. Hollande said that under Mr. Sarkozy, France had "degraded" not only in its credit rating — lowered last week to AA+ from AAA by Standard & Poor's — but also in its public life.

"It's degrading not only for the people on that list but for the family members of those people," said Damaris Reyes, a resident of Baruch Houses in Manhattan and the executive director of Good Old Lower East Side, a community and tenants' rights group.

Other ATP-related compounds might be degraded not only by muscle enzymes but also by bacteria.

The anthropogenic activities, economic growth, unplanned haphazard growth of the tourism and urban agglomerations have degraded not only the local environment but also have reduced the natural resources base of the transhumance communities.

The activated enzyme plasmin is a broad-spectrum serine protease which degrades not only fibrin, but also extracellular matrix proteins such as fibronectin, laminin and proteoglycans.

Tth Man5 β-mannosidase was capable of degrading not only pNPM but also polymer mannan.