| The state has understood this lesson since the kings of old began repeatedly to debase the coinage. |
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| There is no evidence in this case of any positive intention to humiliate or debase the applicant. |
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| If the Minister had received cash in return for assisting a visa or passport application, that would debase him. |
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| Who deserts his father's race, seeks the black blood to debase, which thro' his own veins doth chase, he be accurst! |
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| But I have trouble with the irreality of paid shills, whether bloggers, influencers, or everyday people, who debase social intercourse. |
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| Or does mere public belabouring sometimes debase the very virtues intended for promotion and inoculate public sentiment against subscription? |
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| Her tendency to deconstruct and debase everything only points to the lack of substance that might be found in her own soul. |
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| It is impossible to find a hygienist who does not debase his theory of the healthful with a theory of the virtuous. |
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| Not content to debase himself, he insisted that his wife drink as well. |
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| Instead, I endeavored to strive even harder so that I would not debase his legacy. |
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| In Europe, gold was democratized by its use in coins, even though successive rulers tried to debase them by mixing in lesser metals or reducing their size. |
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| Both are harmful, but the debt route is a less visible way to debase the currency. |
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| By denying Japan's venal politicians the opportunity to debase the yen, the Bank of Japan may think it is acting in the right spirit. |
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| Our reputation for responsible environmental stewardship gets swept aside when we degrade and we debase the environments of other countries. |
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| Mr. Clark warns that unless Canada's foreign policy remains independent we will debase our international currency. |
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| As a policy response to the global credit contraction, the governments of the world have clearly opted to debase their currencies. |
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| And who turns away from the religion of Abraham but such as debase their souls with folly? |
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| We are not without journals that debase public taste and warp public opinion. |
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| However, the planner can debase these tourist offer elements to such an extent as to destroy all chance of success in economic and social growth. |
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| China, among others, frets that the US policy stance will debase the dollar, the lynchpin of the global economy. |
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| Those who legitimate their interests or justify violence in the name of God debase religion. |
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| I challenge the hon. member on the other side to stick to the issues rather than trying to debase the House with needless comments. |
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| We expect our television to debase us, empty us, and condescend to us. |
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| And not only will you be content with that, you might also degrade or debase yourself in some way so that you can have it. |
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| Everywhere people recognise that genuine forms of corruption debase the quality of their life, lead to the degradation of their social and physical environment. |
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| But I feel that were I to accept the award, it would ultimately debase the coinage of the medal. |
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| For some people extending human control over genes is the supreme act of hubris and, like all hubris, threatens paradoxically not to elevate but to debase us. |
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| However, it could now also debase the coinage and so increase the money supply. |
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| No one should be a hostage to the political designs of anyone else in that respect, as that could well debase the ideals underpinning human rights and sap the very foundations of modernity. |
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| This cynical homage to the law of the most powerful seeks solely to debase all of the principles of the United Nations Charter, as demonstrated once again even now by the US draft resolution to the Security Council. |
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| Unless we choose to debase our own dollar as fast as the Americans are doing, which would have the same adverse long-term consequences for our standard of living. |
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| This is also true when external debt is denominated in a country's own currency, but countries that issue the currency in which their debt is denominated can debase their debt by printing money. |
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| This is Christmas, and to reduce it to a memory is to debase it to a feeling, perhaps still capable of making some chords vibrate within the heart, but incapable of changing our lives, of becoming our lives. |
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| Freedom of expression is essential in an open and democratic society, but we should not debase the idea of freedom of expression by confusing it with the right of a merchant to use any argument to sell goods. |
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| Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe in. |
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| By operating gambling in an ethically suspect manner, we debase the public realm and risk engendering a society that's meaner, more polarized, more desperate and certainly more corrupt. |
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| It is a person's own, to do well or ill, to improve or debase. |
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| If he in any sort have communicated himselfe vnto thee, it is not to debase himselfe, or stoope to thy smalnesse, nor to give thee the controulment of his power. |
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| This trend was in part attributable to Florence's reluctance to debase the gold florin, which was internationally esteemed for its stable value, prestige, and reliability. |
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