So is it also true that our ability to appreciate and make a perceptive assessment has also degenerated? |
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Once there were beliefs, these degenerated into ideas, then into ideologies. |
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I was trying to play it cool, but once we'd landed and were whisked away to our Grandstand seats, I degenerated into excited schoolboy mode. |
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Eltham Palace was originally a moated medieval royal palace that degenerated into a ruin over the years. |
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The game degenerated into something of a muddle for a spell, with both sides missing passes and points galore. |
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An example of why has come up on this post, where a disagreement between two posters degenerated into crude obscenity. |
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Conditions have degenerated beyond the control of even the most efficient and well-prepared farmers. |
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Over time, the scolex degenerated and the aberrant larval form proliferated. |
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There was a time that I found your comments amusing, however recently you have degenerated into farce and hypocrisy. |
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Their protest degenerated into an ugly scene where they traded blows with council workers who were supposed to collect the levy. |
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In the past, anti-corruption drives sometimes degenerated into, or masked, power struggles. |
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Season three has degenerated to a point where they are just trying to break any taboo they can, and it's getting a little old. |
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As a result, innovation has degenerated into developing new electoral tactics. |
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Mentally, he probably degenerated to the point where his main concerns are the basic human instincts. |
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Almost all lacunae included macrophages and degenerated cells with shrunken or condensed nuclei. |
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From there, the interview degenerated, and I wasn't surprised when I wasn't offered the job. |
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It could easily have degenerated into dreadful mawkishness but self-deprecating humour helped save the day. |
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I love this comic, despite the fact Sim has degenerated into a frothing loon. |
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Calderwood felt Aberdeen's performance was decent up until the goal but degenerated thereafter. |
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The bone system could have degenerated and a similar degeneration in the neck bones can cause unsteadiness and giddiness. |
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The second period degenerated to bad tempered aggression with a referee reluctant to impose adequate discipline. |
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Since the demise of the Catch Me Com buses the No 4 Highercroft route has degenerated from poor to absolutely abysmal. |
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The game then degenerated into a real mishmash of misplaced passes and precious few chances. |
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One 1841 neighborly argument degenerated into a shouting match that led to four suits being brought before the Norwich ecclesiastical court. |
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The woods in front of them degenerated into a thick grove of bamboo and undergrowth. |
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The undertrained troops attempted an orderly movement, but it quickly degenerated into a mob movement. |
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It is disappointing to read just how Songkran has degenerated over the years. |
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Elections have degenerated into a choice between two evils, and your only option is the lesser evil. |
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Bord na Mona, for years a vital source of energy, degenerated into something like a welfare agency for needy midlanders. |
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Central power degenerated in a country where local power was more determinant than ever, in the era of warlords. |
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The cave is a respectable size but we didn't follow it far, since after 30m a wade degenerated into a full on swim. |
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Chile established a parliamentary style democracy in the late 19th century, but degenerated into a system protecting the interests of the ruling oligarchy. |
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In severely degenerated tubules, only spermatogonia and Sertoli cells were observed, and pachytene spermatocytes sloughing into the lumen were observed. |
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The mission, supposed to take roughly an hour, degenerated into a 15-hour shootout between 120 American soldiers and several thousand Somali irregulars and clan militia. |
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Canvassing for the leadership contest degenerated into a vicious campaign in which all kinds of foul means including promise of office and bribery were resorted to. |
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Inside the party, democratic centralism degenerated into bureaucratic centralization, so that by the 1930s there was a wide gap between party officials and party members. |
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What is clear is that however the events on 5 July may have begun, they soon degenerated into communalist violence. |
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But she degenerated from nobility to purity and from purity to vanity of Libra. |
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An infamous board meeting in 1982 degenerated into a brawl during which Aldo gashed the face of his own son, Paolo, drawing blood. |
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Most varieties won't be found in the US and many of the older ones have degenerated from the original because of being raised from seed not properly rogued. |
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To recapitulate animalistic, vegetable and mineral processes in a sincerely degenerated manner, certainly isn't very agreeable. |
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Similar questions surround the surgical treatment of degenerated cartilage in the knee. |
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After Rome's decline, military drill almost disappeared as warfare degenerated into undisciplined melees and individual dueling. |
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The extent of the complaints resulting from the change in the blood count depends on the number of degenerated plasma cells. |
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Unable to make sense of what was happening to them, they reacted tetchily and their play degenerated into niggling, scrappy attempts to win the ball. |
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In case of a degenerated rotator cuff the surgeon now has the intraoperative choice between primary or inverse fracture prosthesis. |
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It has exploded the last illusions of détente to reveal the implacable hostility of U. S. imperialism to the Soviet degenerated workers state. |
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In an era when politics has degenerated into tawdry glitz, Canada seems to have bucked the trend. |
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The cricket had degenerated into a game of patience and there really is not the time for that now. |
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It all happened very fast, a chain of events that degenerated very quickly. |
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Where this country used to be a model for the Third World of how things should be done, it has now degenerated into its own opposite. |
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A rally attended by tens of thousands of demonstrators on 26 January rapidly degenerated. |
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The aim of radiation is to stop the ability of degenerated cells to divide and thus to prevent further growth of the tumour. |
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It began as a financial crisis, and degenerated into an economic crisis with regional implications around the world. |
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Follicles had developed normally until the vesicular stage and then degenerated before attaining their full pre-ovulatory growth. |
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The general security situation in Puntland has steadily degenerated since the beginning of the current mandate. |
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This condition rapidly degenerated into a loss of control and led to the rollover and heavy impact with the terrain. |
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Once the supply of motor neurons that control a particular muscle has degenerated, it cannot be regenerated by exercise or anything else. |
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The conflict has degenerated to the point where the parties are not able to talk to one another. |
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Those incidents caused numerous deaths and much damage, and could have quickly degenerated. |
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The meeting quickly degenerated and shooting started between Kosovo Albanians and Kosovo Serbs. |
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All these wonderful values have unfortunately degenerated into ethnocentric arrogance. |
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His skeletal frame has degenerated to that of a 70 year old. |
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What was initially intended to be a celebration of music has degenerated into a weird marriage of fashion and commerce. |
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In other hands, this scenario might have degenerated into a caricature-filled freak show. |
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Within the committee, partisan bickering has degenerated to personal distrust. |
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Like the rest of our world, his city had degenerated into subdead induced bedlam. |
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Both the kulumbellids and the aenigmastrophiids contain stricklandioids with aberrant features, such as resupinate or strophic shells and reduced or degenerated cardinalia. |
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After the lying and back-stabbing that took place this week, relations between the housemates have degenerated into drunken abuse and name-calling. |
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Combine television viewing with countless hours logged onto the Internet, and one could argue that Americans have degenerated into a society of semi-literate loners. |
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The group degenerated into a bunch of randomly run fiefdoms, with octogenarians on the boards and no modern management systems, checks, or controls. |
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This thread has degenerated now into a debate about whose sky fairy is the true sky fairy and therefore has reached the point of total absurdity. |
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But this governance exercise quickly degenerated into a cash grab exercise, when deficit and debt reduction became the categorical imperative. |
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The situation further degenerated when, on 18 November, a new wave of violence ensued following a dispute between a FARDC soldier and a Kasindien Mayi Mayi fighter. |
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New POFs are easily identifiable, but those that have degenerated are difficult to distinguish from atretic follicles. |
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The war is an extension of degenerated underdevelopment. |
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In severely degenerated, collapsed discs with posterior osteophytes, it may be difficult to achieve sufficient distraction using the cervical distractor only. |
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Pepper made it his business to keep up on the shifts in policy as the CI degenerated and he soon made himself indispensable to the New York WP leadership around C. E. Ruthenberg. |
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In other cases, unfortunately the ones that attract the most attention, ancient quarrels have resurfaced and degenerated into armed conflicts, of which the civilian population is the first victim. |
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The campaign degenerated into mutual mudslinging, each candidate trying to tarnish the other's reputation and looking bad in the process. |
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In 1992, the clashes between pro-Communists and Islamists got worse and degenerated into civil war, necessitating the dispatch of Russian troops to the area. |
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Visionary, rebellious or just craving for a different way of life, some Eldar rejected the degenerated civilization of their peer before the Fall. |
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Thus, when a conflict degenerated into armed violence, an appeal would usually be made to a third party of mature years to calm the tension and reconcile the combatants. |
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Wells which degenerated into a row because Wells had taken offence at observations Orwell made about him in a Horizon article. |
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They mixed different seeds, and the crops degenerated. |
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Though the aim of chivalry was to noble action, its conflicting values often degenerated into violence. |
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It is absolutely beyond the realm of comprehension to think that our system would have degenerated to this point, to the point where we cannot count on anybody anywhere these days. |
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The match degenerated into a brawl, but Hidegkuti was not involved. |
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Later in northern India Shauraseni Prakrit gave rise to Shauraseni Aparbhsha, which was a degenerated form of Prakrit. |
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The Palmaris longus tendon has been suggested that it is phylogenetically degenerated in flexion of the metacarpo-phalangeal joint. |
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Under Abdullah, Saudi Arabia degenerated into multiple fiefdoms with each senior prince striving to exercise authority at the expense of the others. |
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At the time, it may have seemed an acceptable way to construct a retaining wall, but the tires degenerated into an environmental eyesore and the docks were no longer safe. |
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A prime minister who was constantly heckled about thieving by school children resorted to trading insults with them, and this eventually degenerated into stone-throwing at his motorcade. |
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It is indeed disheartening that the recent demonstrations involving nearly 600 dismissed military personnel degenerated into violence, leading to the loss of lives. |
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Saum suggests, Puritanical dread of death for spiritual reasons had degenerated into out-and-out fatalism. |
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Seeing Girnari Baba's stupefaction, Kacha Baba explained that men today had completely degenerated and, in accordance with the law of karma, they would undergo great suffering. |
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The war, termed the Anarchy by Victorian historians, dragged on and degenerated into stalemate. |
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On 2 June 1793, the Convention's session in Tuileries Palace degenerated into chaos and pandemonium. |
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The peaceful demonstrations degenerated into violence, prompting the intervention of coal miners summoned by Iliescu. |
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The Bohemian war therefore soon degenerated into a proxy war between Spain and the Republic. |
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This is why some observers argue that German parliamentarism has degenerated. |
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This sentiment is so lugged into every debate, that it has degenerated into mere parrotry. |
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Many degenerated into the infamous Glasgow slums, such as the Gorbals. |
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There was no serious exchange of views as each side would not move from their positions and the debates degenerated into an uproar, each side shouting abuse at the other. |
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