| But in celebrating genius, we willy-nilly undervalue, even devalue, the importance of effort, and with serious consequences. |
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| He tends to devalue others in order to maintain his own exaggerated sense of self-importance. |
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| Litter-strewn streets, graffiti and derelict buildings demean residents' quality of life and devalue the visitor experience. |
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| A legal formula is likely to devalue that individualism, the very uniqueness we assume such wills are designed to capture. |
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| Institutions devalue human potential and minimize the contributions of individuals. |
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| This allowed him to devalue the bolivar and successfully attack the problem of the country's internal indebtedness. |
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| People who see the world in terms of evil and sin will tend to devalue the material world. |
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| You waste time on unprofitable activities, and devalue your donated services. |
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| Author retains copyright, though she contracts not to devalue the original work with subsequent editions, transcripts, or synopses. |
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| Worried residents also fear the mast could devalue their homes and put their health at risk. |
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| At its most extreme, source-based history and skill-based teaching can seem to devalue knowledge for its own sake. |
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| The financial crisis should thus devalue a gigantic amount of this parasitic capital, launching a new cycle of capital accumulation. |
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| Not only does the Pommie milksops narrative devalue the skills of Australia's bowlers. |
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| I wish to take issue with the recent erroneous and arrogant statements from hydro developers who seek to devalue the true worth of the Monadhliath Mountains to the nation. |
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| No one in a decision-making capacity would ever devalue their own worth. |
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| You've allowed the passage of time to dim the intensity of the moment and your rational faculty to devalue what is no longer integral to your life. |
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| In its place came something which, striving to fuse Urdu and Telugu, seemed to devalue both. |
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| Ireland, Greece, Portugal, Spain or Italy would have to devalue, which would make it impossible for them to service their euro-denominated debt. |
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| By generating feelings of goodwill, ingratiation can counter tendencies to stigmatise and devalue other people. |
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| They propose that we pressure China to improve its human-rights policy, or to get tougher on Iran, or to devalue its currency. |
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| I think it says a lot about the way that our government and our university devalue education. |
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| That is a big problem in the euro zone where trade links are tight and countries are unable to devalue their currencies. |
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| I hope Parliament will not devalue the compromise put forward, which will allow Europe to become a leader in the fight against climate change. |
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| He considered that it is a system which is very useful for patentees and that AIPPI should not devalue it. |
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| To devalue and deny resources to one group of people, compared to another group of people, is a denial of social and human rights. |
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| It is, therefore, crucial to devalue the perceived benefits of possessing nuclear weapons. |
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| The Liberals are pandering to those who want to devalue marriage as a cornerstone of public policy. |
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| The prestige of the mainstream language and its predominance in public life can lead a community to devalue its own language. |
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| Severe financial market pressures forced monetary authorities to devalue and subsequently float the Brazilian real in mid-January. |
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| Once you devalue the market loses confidence in the currency and starts looking for the next devaluation. |
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| The president can veto a bill from Congress but an overuse of this will devalue not only his position but also that of the political structure in America. |
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| In a dollarized monetary system, the national government cannot devalue the currency or finance budget deficits by creating inflation because it does not issue the currency. |
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| Boys are taught early in life to devalue care, to be hyper-competitive, super-achieving men. |
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| We devalue the significance of memory in order to cope with the fact that our gadgets are now better at it than we are. |
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| Other than yet another demonstration of our ongoing dive into uncivil crassness, these antiboy T-shirts are an example of how we continually devalue our men. |
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| Argentina was annoyed that Brazil had decided to devalue the Real by one-third in January 1999, consequently lowering the prices of Brazilian goods. |
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| What might occur if Third World governments refused to devalue currencies, hike food prices, and slash wages and social services in their efforts to attract investors and foreign currency to repay the debt? |
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| As economic growth continues to provide data which indicates a further slump in demand, and as the USD rallies from poor stock market data, Crude Oil may devalue even further through to next week. |
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| The cost to the farmer of the teeth emerging will devalue the lamb and this problem will only get worse as the new season trade ramps up. |
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| However, the representatives of the 20 nations gave Japan the green light to devalue its currency in order to stimulate growth. |
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| The Yen continued its downward slide against its major currency rivals on Wednesday amid rumors that the Japanese government will intervene in order to devalue the currency. |
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| It may well be that the underlying policy goal is to devalue the U. S. dollar but the problem with a 'beggar thy neighbor' policy is that it is easier to push when the other guy is not prepared to push back. |
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| It prevented a meltdown when it declined to devalue the yuan during the Asian financial crisis and ensured that the Group of 77 developing countries did not scupper the Kyoto protocol on climate change. |
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| Authors frequently do not cite references that are more than three years old because manuscript referees often dismiss or devalue older citings. |
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| The club claimed that they did not want to devalue the FA Cup by fielding a weaker side. |
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| After the war, inflation began to devalue the Krone, which was still Austria's currency. |
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| Rosen undoubtedly did not intend to devalue women with her comments. |
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| New Brunswick's universities work hard to establish and maintain a reputation for quality of their programs and wholesale crediting of lower level courses would devalue our degrees universally. |
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| This Taylorian conception of work probably helped devalue vocational training, even though most trades and techniques bear no resemblance to this simplistic interpretation of competencies. |
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| Due to the adoption of the euro, when Greece experienced financial crisis, it could no longer devalue its currency to regain competitiveness. |
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| While heritage tourism provides economic opportunities for some, it can devalue contributions made by less familiar groups. |
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| A focus on these areas is not to devalue other areas of assessment. |
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| A Solider of Fortune slam piece sought to devalue Gritz among his own jingoistic constituency. |
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| According to Reuters, the apex bank is planning to further devalue the kwanza this year. |
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| Phenomena which confirm these situations and reinforce such a culture are connected with new lifestyles which devalue the human dimensions of the contracting parties with disastrous consequences for the family. |
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| We all know a country cannot devalue its way to prosperity. |
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| Shaken by the stealthiness of LVMH's approach and a belief that the larger company would devalue the Hermes brand, various members of the controlling Dumas family have sought ways to maintain their grip. |
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| Those engaged in non-market production often argue that not to include it in our measure of societal well-being is to devalue the important services provided by those who are engaged in these non-market activities. |
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| Without seeking to devalue the measurement of social capital, it is perhaps inevitable that interest in the measurement of economic and social phenomena moves relentlessly onwards. |
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| This market is definitely growing but it should not grow too much to avoid a saturation that might devalue the product and damage the market's stability and the entire sector. |
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| The proliferation of suffect consuls through this process, and the allocation of this office to homines novi tended over time to devalue the office. |
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| Low prices for hydrocarbons, which are 90 percent of Turkmen exports, caused Turkmenistan to devalue its manat currency by 19 percent at the beginning of the year. |
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| Britain's decision to devalue the British Honduras dollar in 1949 worsened economic conditions and led to the creation of the People's Committee, which demanded independence. |
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