Sentence examples for devolved from its from inspiring English sources

His firm, Venturi, Scott Brown & Associates, had played a central role in freeing American architecture from the grip of postwar modernism, which by 1970 had devolved from its bracing glory days to orthodoxy and tedious glass-and-steel copycats.

Ronald Reagan's signature vision of a space shield to protect the nation from a barrage of nuclear missiles has devolved from its original Star Wars concept to a more rudimentary system of ground-based rockets that the Bush administration hopes to put in place this year.

He said he would ask for powers to be devolved from Westminster to ensure it happens.

Oh Santa, it all devolved from there.

It quickly devolved from well-informed and important to silly and irrelevant.

Clearly the NFL has devolved from the majestic, powerful sport it once was, into an "anything for a buck", felon-laiden money making scheme.

Faye's story contends for space against all these others, and the novel's meaning is devolved out from its centre in her to a succession of characters.

"It gave us a speaking point, a focus, the idea that 'man devolved from a long line of brain-eating apes' thumbed its nose at both religion and science, and questioned man as the center of the universe.

It'll get funding devolved from Whitehall for transport, housing and job programmes.

Its fundamental tenet is that power should be devolved from politicians to people, from the central to the local; a belief that personal ambition shouldn't be limited by the intervention of a bureaucratic government but nurtured and valued.

Over the years, MTV has faced accusations that its signature event, the Video Music Awards, has devolved from a celebration of rock 'n' roll rebellion to a parade of celebrity train wrecks.