| Each time, a state in fiscal crisis overissued paper money, causing inflation, debasement of the money, and commercial chaos. |
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| To build quickly or formulaically generally entails the debasement of materials, with a resulting sensory impoverishment. |
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| The debasement of the media can be traced in relation to the great political convulsions of the past 30 years. |
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| The debasement and corruption of the media are profound symptoms of the decomposition of the country's democracy. |
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| Worse, a discouraged, angry, and alienated lower class is directly related to the growing debasement of our popular culture. |
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| Patents have made science increasingly profit-focused, a debasement which has led to calls from some scientists to do away with them altogether. |
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| The utter debasement of the proabortion crowd has to be exposed to daylight. |
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| As I said before, this form of debasement has been allowed to proliferate over the years because we have not had the means to stop it. |
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| Mushnick, a self-appointed griper about the debasement of sports and the decline of civilization, prefers to find fault. |
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| David Hare, the great dramatic navigator of our life, times and moral debasement, has been lamenting the surfeit of bodies in television drama. |
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| This fiasco illustrates the debasement of our country in the European institutions. |
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| A vote-rigging plot constitutes an unconscionable debasement of the citizen's right to vote. |
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| And there may be a positive kick to that as well by any generic debasement of the U. S. dollar going forward. |
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| Moreover, every day spent under the reign of the media, offers us the spectacle of their debasement, humiliated by their own tacit consent. |
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| Abusing kids who are just five, six or seven years old, or younger still, is unacceptable debasement. |
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| Other investors fearful of competitive debasement of paper currencies have been buying gold. |
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| And with the creep of monetary inflation comes the specter of myriad inflationary effects, currency debasement, and progressive monetary disorder. |
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| There is in this scene incredible creativity, innovation and imagination coupled with sleazy self-promotion, hucksterism, minstrelsy and debasement of the race. |
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| There's something ugly and fascinating about reading such intimate tales of debasement and depression and failure and self-doubt. |
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| It is this debasement of value, or perhaps relativisation of values, which interests Newling. |
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| Responding to violence with violence merely created a destructive spiral that claimed more innocent victims every day, leading to the debasement of mankind. |
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| Surely they can find some that are worth complaining about, but then to try to turn that into an allegation of overall corruption is the kind of debasement of the language that is very unfortunate in this place. |
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| The financial crisis forced a debasement of the balance-sheet positions of financial sector entities through de-leveraging and affected corporate and household sectors in developed countries. |
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| The concept scorn covers contempt and debasement, which in the usual meaning would not comprise situations depicting a figure as shown in drawing 2, regardless of how it is illustratively to be understood or interpreted. |
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| That is a debasement of the promise just as what the Prime Minister said is a debasement, not a change of heart, not a healthy change, but rather a debasement, of the whole way we do politics and interact with the public. |
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| The conservative mind, always prone to superstitions which vest man-made money with natural properties, became terrified that all the tinkering would end with debasement of the coin. |
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| I believe that the debasement of money will soon be over. |
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| And so this thoughtful policeman is also led to brood over the debasement of language by the politicians and bureaucrats who cynically confuse, misdirect and misinform the public. |
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| In a UN refugee camp, for example, the UNHCR decides how food should be distributed, thus assuming the role of the traditional head of household and consequently initiating a process of debasement in some families. |
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| A mint that wants to earn a large annual profit from debasement, however, must recoin a large part of the outstanding money stock. |
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| The Roman Empire survived the debasement of the denari by successive Caesars to pay their murderous Praetorian Guards not to revolt. |
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| This tendency towards fiat money led eventually to the debasement of Roman coinage, with consequences in the later Empire. |
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| This mint was short lived however due to its coins being heavy debasement causing significant losses. |
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| She had given herself to Darrow, and concealed the episode from Owen Leath, with no more apparent sense of debasement than the vulgarest of adventuresses. |
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| Additionally, Europe experienced technological advancement in the mining industry, the stream of currency through debasement from royals, and the emergence of Protestantism. |
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