Sentence examples for has devolved from from inspiring English sources
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.
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.
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.
But documents trace a family whose ranks have devolved from industrialist to Junior League member to a consultant on other people's wealth and in the youngest generation, a public-school teacher.
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.
