Sentence examples for have devolved from from inspiring English sources

They have devolved from the conservative party into the party of social Darwinism.

Things have devolved from there, and there's only myself to blame.

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.

In college basketball, nicknames for winning coaches have devolved from names like the Wizard of Westwood for U.C.L.A.'s John Wooden to pronunciation helpers like Coach K for Mike Krzyzewski of Duke.

Ever since, as Mandela's successors have devolved from bad to worse, a favorite parlor game (especially but not exclusively in white liberal parlors) has been fantasizing about the more competent, less corrupt South Africa that might have flourished under President Ramaphosa.

I interviewed him for a BBC radio show based on a column I wrote for The Times about how we have devolved from Marilyn's aspirational attitude toward knowledge, in which she wanted to collect great books and meet authors and intellectuals — even marrying one — to Sarah Palin's anti-elitist scorn about reading and intellectuals.

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.

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.

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.