Sentence examples for has devolved over from inspiring English sources

As he has for months in prospective campaign stops in the early voting states, and throughout his political career, the former mayor of Burlington, Vermont, on Wednesday assailed an economic system that he said has devolved over the past 40 years and eradicated the nation's middle class.

As many of these festivals have become in the States, this one has devolved over the years into a bizarre combination of the sacred and the profane.

Beginning with peaceful protests during the "Arab Spring" that challenged Assad's autocratic rule, Syria's strife has devolved over the last 32 months into a regional proxy war stoked by sectarian malice.

In the process, what began at the end of the 60s and early 70s as an ostensibly positive search for self discovery, self-realization and self-actualization has devolved over the years to a negative spiral of being self-centered, self-absorbed and self-delusional.

His people talk about how England has traded imperial confidence for self-consciousness, how attitudes — toward marriage, the household division of labor, even smoking — have devolved over the course of their lifetimes.

PARIS — The United States' notions of U.N. sanctions on Iran have devolved over the past months from crippling ones to ones that bite to the currently described smart ones, which although packaged with the words tough and strong might not be hard-nosed enough to cost the mullahs a half-hour's lost sleep.

Scotland already has devolved powers over health and education.

A promising start in building an economic and political partnership with China has devolved into an argument over whether the United States is seeking to contain China's ambitions.

What was until recently a difference in ideology has devolved, in a little over a decade, into a difference in intellect.

What was supposed to be a low-key diplomatic meet-and-greet between Austria and Israel has devolved into a spat over Israel's expansion into East Jerusalem, a neighborhood that Palestinians insist should be the capital of its future state.

In recent months, the inquiry has devolved into a political fight over Clinton's emails and private computer server.