Sentence examples for since devolved from inspiring English sources
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.
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 civil war has since devolved into a battle between the largest ethnic groups, Kiir's Dinka and the Nuer, to which Machar belongs.
A new Target opening in 2012 will be the anchor of the Metreon Shopping center, an innovative shopping mall complex opened by Sony in 1999 that's since devolved into a large, nearly-empty container for an IMAX theater.
Long-term care barely exists since we devolved everything into "community centers," which also really don't exist.
One of their cabinet posts, secretary of state for Scotland, has been anachronistic since powers were devolved to Edinburgh in 1998.
"When I look at my horribly chaotic life," he said, "the biggest drawback is the mess of cords that at one time were perhaps under control, but have devolved since then.
King Jigme Singye Wangchuk, a reincarnation of a Buddhist saint, has been quietly working on a constitution for his Himalayan kingdom since he first devolved power to an elected government in 1998.
Research led by Simon Burgess, of the University of Bristol, found that pupils at English schools have been doing better than those in Wales, where since 2001 the devolved administration has not released the data on which league tables are based.
