| I'm all about building up the human spirit, not debasing it and degrading it all the more. |
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| Far from debasing his models, Newton places them at the heart of a deep and complex drama where they rule like errant queens. |
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| But they should not be allowed to force us into unnecessarily debasing the quality of our democracy. |
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| The authorities argued that the black-shirt wearing, baseball-capped rockers were peddling satanism and debasing the morality of youth. |
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| I mean, they use military language in football, too, and we don't complain about that overstating the case or debasing the language. |
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| Trying to keep track of 18 people rapidly debasing themselves in the hope of winning a million dollars was no easy feat. |
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| All four of those countries, unlike other major economies are expected to avoid debasing their currencies by moving towards quantitative easing. |
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| In the absence of consummation, the union was questionable at best and easily dissoluble without debasing the sacrament of marriage. |
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| They never use profane language, bear false witness, engage in slander, gossip or backbiting, or even listen to such debasing talk. |
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| Then it attacked language, debasing speech until it could no longer be the vehicle of independent thought. |
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| In the light of the foregoing, the Court considers that in the present case there is no evidence that there was a positive intention of humiliating or debasing the applicant. |
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| It is deemed treatment to be degrading because it was such as to arouse in the victims feelings of fear, anguish and inferiority capable of humiliating and debasing them. |
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| The Emperor Nero was short of a few denarii to pay his soldiers so he created some more by debasing the currency. |
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| Flooding the market with new work is like debasing the coinage, a strategy used from Nero to the Weimar Republic with disastrous consequences. |
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| The host's right to defend himself and his style does not extend to the personalized debasing of his critics. |
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| The greenback dropped on Wednesday, hitting a 2-month low against the EUR on speculation the Federal Reserve is debasing the U. S currency. |
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| Nor can we run the risk of debasing a large range of services for a long time to come. |
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| It has everything to do with debasing or diluting the traditional values of a sacred religious sacrament or covenant. |
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| It abolished the age-old practice used by kings and rulers of arbitrarily debasing money and triggering inflation. |
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| When the Scriptures are suppressed, and man comes to regard himself as supreme, we need look only for fraud, deception, and debasing iniquity. |
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| That debasing the currency may bring some short-term gain but always brings long-term pain. |
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| It would mean creating Canadian dollars in order to debase our own currency as fast as the Fed is debasing the US dollar. |
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| But lying talk radio hosts hurt us all by debasing our democracy's ongoing conversation. |
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| For them it is an enormous challenge to re-enter society after months, if not years, away from home in debasing and sometimes life-threatening conditions. |
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| Furthermore, He has raised Him from the dead to conquer all our deaths: despair, selfishness, our purely human calculations, debasing our neighbours. |
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| Fisher provided a new rationale for an old practice of debasing the coinage called seignorage. |
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| For the Court, the conditions under which the population was condemned to live were debasing and violated the very notion of respect for the human dignity of its members. |
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| Condemning doping, violence and forms of intolerance, they also reaffirmed their commitment to tackling the problems that are debasing the Olympic ideals and the educational values of sport. |
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| This flowered into a preoccupation with the money supply and a lifelong conviction that governments must be prevented from debasing the currency. Not all of Mr Paul's positions are unpopular. |
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| The Habsburgs had been debasing their currency to pay for the war and prices exploded, just as they had in previous years in Austria. |
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| The Spanish had been debasing their currency to pay for the war and prices exploded in Spain just as they had in previous years in Austria. |
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| With the accumulation of private capital in the Renaissance, states developed methods of financing deficits without debasing their coin. |
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| While the purists decry the debasing of written French encouraged by texto, others regard it as a logical evolution dictated by circumstances whereby language is adapting to the features of new technical devices. |
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| It is said that to avoid this debasing practice that the treasurers ordered all of the platinum won from the placers to be thrown into the sea or no auriferous rivers. |
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| Henry reformed the coinage in 1107, 1108 and in 1125, inflicting harsh corporal punishments to English coiners who had been found guilty of debasing the currency. |
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| Until the 19th century, counterfeiting coins was considered high treason in the United Kingdom as it was considered to be an act of debasing the currency of The Crown. |
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