Sentence examples similar to old devolved from inspiring English sources

The order to "Smash the Four Olds" had devolved into a chaotic assault on authority of all kinds.

Forty-year-old Win Duncan has devolved from an aptly named prize-winning graduate student into a professor at a backwater university.

I soon devolved into my old habits, drinking a bottle of wine or, if I was feeling especially self-pitying, liquor alone every night.

That comes from the argument that Scotland's 15-year-old devolved set-up - currently wholly funded by a Treasury block grant worth about £30bn a year - has never been properly accountable for what it spends.

The approach looks good in Petraeus's manual but in practice the strategy has devolved into the same old war of attrition.

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.

All the older forms of elite-bashing have now devolved into a kind of aggressive denial of the threat to American democracy posed by public ignorance.

When Pete Rozelle retired in 1989, the selection of a new commissioner took seven months and devolved into a divisive battle between old-guard owners and the new guard.

While the Old City thankfully survived Ceaușescu's grandiose 1980s plan to raze much of old Bucharest and build a new Socialist capital, the area devolved into something of a slum.

The suit contends that by late 2006, Citigroup's C.D.O. operations "had devolved into a Ponzi scheme where unsold portions of older C.D.O.

A range of other benefits that support older people, carers, disabled people and those who are ill should also be fully devolved.