Sentence examples for had devolved from from inspiring English sources
Under Mr Koizumi and Mr Abe, decision-making had devolved from the LDP corridors to the prime minister and even as far down as the cabinet.
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.
By Confucius's time, however, the feudal ritual system had been so fundamentally undermined that the political crises also precipitated a profound sense of moral decline: the centre of symbolic control could no longer hold the kingdom, which had devolved from centuries of civil war into 14 feudal states.
The force also acknowledged there had been full co-operation from Gatecrasher and no issues with public order but eyes were now firmly on the club and its seemingly hedonistic clientele, and by 2003 Gatecrasher had devolved from weekly, to monthly, and then to special occasions.
Solitary confinement in this country has devolved from a short-term punishment imposed infrequently for violating prison rules into a routine form of prison management.
DeLay has since had the three most unreliable Republicans removed and replaced with stooges, and the ethics committee has devolved from torpid to moribund.
Forty-year-old Win Duncan has devolved from an aptly named prize-winning graduate student into a professor at a backwater university.
In the case of George Ohr, known as the "Mad Potter of Biloxi", nature has devolved from being a decorous bouquet to a swampy bayou, as if form has melted in the tropical heat.
Of the survivors, "Glee" is finally on an upswing, while "Nashville" has devolved from an enjoyable showcase for Connie Britton and Hayden Panettiere into a meditation on how men with goatees unexpectedly become fathers.
