One is street fighting, which often degenerates, as it did in Panama, into house-to-house struggles without battle lines or safe areas. |
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It can be obtained from the previous description by applying affine transformations to keep the polygon bounded as it degenerates. |
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After a competent first act, the second degenerates into a shouting match, with volume replacing emotional complexity. |
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The diction has in places a huge and rugged grandeur, which degenerates here and there into tumidity. |
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The search for influences quickly degenerates into meaningless name-dropping. |
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The general consensus of outsiders is that the town is a place of degenerates. |
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While the hobos, degenerates and backpackers passed by, we chatted for a while about this and that. |
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What begins with hope and freshness in each case quickly degenerates into something twisted and rotten. |
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Though occasionally the humour degenerates into facetiousness, the verbal dexterity of the verse is superb. |
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Controversy is an inevitable element of medical progress, but sometimes it degenerates into doubtful disputations. |
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After the initial charge, both lines are broken, and the battle degenerates into a chaotic melee. |
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The reaction to the murder case made it seem like the killers were degenerates, aberrant psychos who were far removed from normality. |
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But, as we have seen with Russia, if the ethical basis of free markets degenerates sufficiently, all that we have left is a form of kleptocracy. |
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The polypide degenerates periodically during the lifetime of a zooid, and a compact mass, called a brown body, frequently remains in its place. |
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If the artist's approach often tends to such simplistic judgements, it also degenerates into prissy political correctness and schoolmarmy cluck clucking. |
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In clandestinity, any delegation of power easily degenerates into a dictatorship. |
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Troops were given newspapers vilifying Parisians as traitors and degenerates. |
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People who suffer from these diseases have a life sentence: they do not die, they stay alive and their condition degenerates. |
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All too often, our discourse degenerates into deadlocks animated by dogmatic sparring. |
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As metamorphosis proceeds, larval organization degenerates, and the first polypide develops inside a primary zooid. |
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And so the cycle of kleptocratic rule punctuated by periodic coups repeats itself, while the country as a whole degenerates to basket-case level. |
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In Parkinson's disease, an area in the brain called the basal ganglia degenerates. |
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His energy degenerates easily into impatience with those who disagree with him. |
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What is worst is when degenerates of this kind are also defended with the aid of the law. |
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Safety and local air quality around schools and establishments of further education degenerates if access is only by private car. |
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Any justice which is only justice soon degenerates into something that is less than justice. |
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I do not have the impression that that creates a problem or degenerates my practice. |
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Marietta Simpson's full, rich contralto never degenerates into wobble. |
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The urge to laugh is almost overwhelming as the enticing conspiracy theory degenerates into ranting about reptiles and an alien race plotting to take over the world. |
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And what happens is that it either degenerates into some form of self-indulgent ego-tripping or it loses itself in tree-hugging or some such specious nonsense. |
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This was set in a cheap boarding house inhabited by a collection of semi-human misfits, degenerates, and murderers, who were what they were because poverty had made them so. |
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On my demanding table, comprising 10 degenerates and one discerning aesthete, virtually everybody was going for mussels followed by venison with roasted root vegetables. |
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These articles portrayed the band as obscene perverts and degenerates. |
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Let the nation cleanse itself of its degenerates, its traitors, its thugs. |
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As an atheist I'm getting sick of the fanaticism of these degenerates. |
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He also has a great scene when his foster sister tells him to buzz off, an argument which degenerates into a furious row about who looked after who in the foster home. |
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When we forget that our longing for the good and the true is grounded in the beautiful, the spiritual life degenerates into moralism and perfectionism. |
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The tapetum degenerates earlier than usual, resulting in high pollen sterility, and anther indehiscence occurs when pollen stainability falls below 20 percent. |
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It is merely the fluid in which it floats that degenerates. |
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The organization of posture, which is based on vestibular, proprioceptive, and visual input to the globus pallidus, is severely damaged when this region of the basal ganglia degenerates. |
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The haploid ovum is now called an ootid. The second polar body degenerates, sometimes dividing before it dies. |
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Dying back is a form of axonal degeneration in which the axon of an unhealthy neuron progressively degenerates over weeks or months, gradually spreading to the cell body. |
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In the cult of degenerates, acts of decency, kindness and modesty could be seen as acts of apostasy. |
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And when another reformist launched a Twitter hashtag calling for the abolition of Saudi Arabia's religious police, it was quickly swamped with tweets branding liberals as pigs and degenerates. |
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Now and then, however, it degenerates into crowd hysteria. In extreme cases, the views of other investors are taken seriously even when flatly contradicted by such facts as may be available. |
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However, without a pilot system of access enforcement MEP degenerates merely to serving the financial needs of custodial parents, and perhaps their vindictive needs as well. |
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We have communicated too little, and this means that uncertainty, or latent gut feelings, have a chance of surfacing, and enlargement degenerates into a political game with short-term gain. |
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The violation of any one of these rights quickly degenerates into poverty. |
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Without truth, charity degenerates into sentimentality. |
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An international team of researchers is reporting the successful treatment of two children with adrenoleukodystrophy, or ALD, in which the fatty insulation of nerve cells degenerates. |
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With that kind of employer's attitude, during negotiations, you have bad faith that leads to conflict which degenerates in all kinds of ways that no one ever wanted. |
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Where it comes out is in a system that continually degenerates. |
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In osteoarthritis, cartilage degenerates and bone rubs against bone. |
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The history of labour disputes in Canada shows that a systemic imbalance between parties quickly leads to the frustration of one of the parties, if not both, which degenerates into either physical or verbal violence. |
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This plant can be cultivated in china, but it needs a long time to maturate and the cultivar degenerates easily. |
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A European Union that ultimately degenerates into an enormous free trade area is not the model I am committed to, and I think that my fellow Members feel the same way. |
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In the more economically prosperou snations, efficiency measures can make the difference between an education system that degenerates into inadequacy and one that significantly promotes societal and individual development. |
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But since her ethics have now been questioned by Republican rivals, and given the investigation hanging over Mr Blagojevich's office, it may not be long before the whole race degenerates into wanton mudslinging. |
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The neuromuscular junction requires trophic support by the nerves and through mechanisms that are not fully understood degenerates when denervated. |
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