Sentence examples for having devolved from inspiring English sources

"I don't just want to see Scotland having devolved powers.

Around the start of the 21st century, the theater, having devolved into a cheap-ticket mainstream-movie house, faced the possibility of demolition.

"I don't just want to see Scotland having devolved powers – it's time for all parts of the UK to have that: a federal structure," Umunna says.

George Osborne's plans for a networked "northern powerhouse" of English city regions have received a boost after council leaders in West Yorkshire said they would bid for Leeds to join Manchester as having devolved economic powers.

Some of you have complained about "Downton" having devolved into a predictable cycle of soap-operatic cliches in Season 4, but the 90-minute finale, with its gorgeous gowns and magical ball and the arrival of some very special American guests, has surely restored faith again in our beloved British series.

Nevertheless I think it might be said that it is such idealism, whether it be of the right or the left, that is at the root of all human progress and that if we ever succumb to the kind of survival-of-the-fittest realism that characterizes humanity's evolutionary past, we will have, in the end, find ourselves having "devolved" back to the pre-human level of our primate ancestors.

Similarly, public dialogue has devolved.

It had devolved into name-calling.

Instead, authority had devolved to homeowners.

The world has devolved into apocalypse.

By the 1970s TriBeCa had devolved into leftover industrial buildings.