The rebellion against Mr. Assad began as a movement for political rights but turned violent after the government repressed demonstrators, and it has since devolved into civil war.
Green leaders here say neither offer came to anything but political theater that has since devolved into a fight between Republicans and Democrats, with Greens trying to stay above it all, citing the incidents as affirmation of their growing importance.
The civil war has since devolved into a battle between the largest ethnic groups, Kiir's Dinka and the Nuer, to which Machar belongs.
The Arab Spring represented a rejection of the secular, socialist, pan-Arabism, nationalist, military regimes that had come to power in the period from the 1950s through the 1970s, and which have since devolved into little more that corrupt, crony governments ruling by brute force and a pervasive security apparatus.
DeLay has since had the three most unreliable Republicans removed and replaced with stooges, and the ethics committee has devolved from torpid to moribund.
If you think that the would-be New World Order has long since devolved into New World Chaos, and it has, just consider what would happen under the pathologically dishonest and erratic, deeply arrogant and profoundly shallow neo-fascist bully boy.
On the front lines, the Afghanistan war has long since devolved into a stalemate between the Taliban, on one side, and the Afghan government and its NATO allies, on the other — a grind that currently claims the lives of a few thousand Afghan civilians annually, plus those of many hundreds more Afghan soldiers and police, not to mention Taliban guerrillas.
Like much of Greenwich Village and the Left Bank, Kings Road has long since devolved into a miles-long cultural dead zone: homogenous clothing and home furnishings stores wrestling for position with cafés featuring wrap sandwiches.
The Paranormal Activity movies have long since devolved in repetition and confused mythology, but for a time, they reinvented the haunted house movie for the age of DIY videography.
Syria's 3-year-old civil war had long since devolved into a battle between a mainly Sunni armed opposition and the Shiite-linked government of Syrian President Bashar Assad.
American literary study and discourse has, regrettably, devolved since Epstein's and Gioia's direct assaults on the state of poetry a quarter of a century ago.
