This generated a degree of controversy – some suggested the research was flawed, that it had failed to consider rhythm and language – and a lot of headlines.
It generated a degree of middle-ground demoralisation and anger with the workings of the state that Gordon Brown, of all people, was powerless to reverse.
Such a context should at least have generated a degree of excitement, a fizz of ideas about what might happen in government.
The musician's legal challenge generated a degree of controversy because some of the sites targeted by the lawsuit appeared to be fansites, such as Purple House, Purple Kiss and Funky Experience 4.0.
This generates a degree of self-sufficiency that insulates it a little from the chill winds of economic austerity that have created so much social havoc elsewhere in Greece.
Some were puzzled by the timing of the arrests, coming barely a week after the Saudi government generated a degree of goodwill by temporarily releasing Yousef and two other women who are on trial.
The idea may have generated a degree of hysteria in the US when the LHC began operating, but it runs contrary to the laws of physics, Professor Charlton said.
Secondly, however well or poorly they may be held in check, currency fluctuations generate a degree of uncertainty in economic transactions that a truly integrated economy cannot afford and would not tolerate.
"Greece does not need more austerity at this time," two senior IMF officials wrote in a recent blog post, adding that the target for a primary budget surplus – the gap between government income and spending, excluding interest payments and national debt – would generate "a degree of austerity that could prevent the nascent recovery from taking hold".
