Sentence examples for degraded it from inspiring English sources

Arrogance, descending frequently into shows of petulance, only degraded it.

But "she took an honourable icon that is seen in sporting venues everywhere and degraded it".

(Some wrote in their diaries that they could tell how recently an iceberg had calved by how degraded it looked).

Which is why Tony Blair co-opted her audacious language of change even as he degraded it with spin; why Gordon Brown invited her to tea, and why David Cameron must watch his back over Europe in the Thatcherite shires.

Moreover, the schools continued largely to ignore the new directions of men's minds; in the universities staffed by Jesuit fathers, medieval Scholasticism, though purged of the formalistic excesses that had degraded it, was fully restored.

Theodore Karasik, a Dubai-based security analyst, said that the leading theory there was that an old mine was adrift and bumped the ship; if it had degraded, it could have simply produced a pressure blast.

But it can degrade it, arresting its spread and limiting its ability to operate openly.

Let's not degrade it further.

Bataille rarely mentions love except to degrade it.

Far from improving civil society, these tunnels degrade it further.

As it degrades, it sucks the oxygen out of the water.