How To Use Degrading In A Sentence

Tarsus was the center of a species of Baal-worship of an imposing but unspeakably degrading character, and at certain seasons of the year it was the scene of festivals, which were frequented by the whole population of the neighboring regions, and were accompanied with orgies of a degree of moral abominableness happily beyond the reach even of our imaginations. The Life of St. Paul
Could it be -- and the sudden thought stung him to the quick -- that she was deliberately and consciously degrading herself to what she knew was a lower plane of thought and life, that the bond of their older companionship might still remain unsevered? Phantom Wires A Novel
What did she ever do to deserve such degrading treatment?
Doubtless the series will spark a rush of transsexuality-centred reality shows that, given the ready and infinite corruptibility of the form, will lose within a year all vestige of the charm of the original and become as mainstream, dreary and degrading to everyone concerned as its other reality brethren. TV review: My Transsexual Summer; Sorority Girls; and Imagine … Simon and Garfunkel: the Harmony Game
No one should have to suffer such degrading treatment.

Microscopic coprophilous (dung-loving) fungi help make our planet habitable by degrading the billions of tons of faeces produced by herbivores. MicrobiologyBytes
Once you get to a substantive compliance analysis for "cruel, inhuman, and degrading" you get the position that the substantive standard is the same as it is in analogous U.S. constitutional law. Shock the Conscience
What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self. George Eliot
Dante would usually take over and spoon-feed me, making my situation all the more degrading.
The primary motive is to free the self from a life that is necessarily rendered crass and degrading by society.
Such information is transformed to the brain cells and keeps the nervous centralis highly excited, thus degrading the quality of sleep.
They have been subjected to the most degrading treatment and have been tortured to extract confessions from them.
It is a fit organ for the millionaire corruptionist and the civilization that he is degrading.
The new law explicitly states that people should not be subject to torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment.
Imperialism, which has always been chummy with and supportive of its fascist kin, will play its historical role in degrading the people, dividing the society, and destroying the nation.
Penologists and medical experts agree that the process of carrying out a verdict of death is often so degrading and brutalizing to the human spirit as to constitute psychological torture.
They were originally intended for temporary storage and some of them are degrading. Times, Sunday Times
These are really two entirely different problems: lack of encouragement is not the same as someone degrading you as a person or telling you your project will never work.
They are publicly branded with the degrading suspicion of being utterly unworthy of the name of citizens, and their business arrangements interrupted without warning. Times, Sunday Times
Tracey briefly considered not schooling the newcomer to the strangeness of her boss, but it wasn't like she was degrading his supervisor.
Her innate charm even at her age and her adeptness at being able to turn a situation, howsoever desperate, in her favour, catapult her from the degrading depths of poverty into a fairly comfortable Brahmin priestess.
The refugees had suffered degrading and inhuman treatment.
I willingly grant to you that some women are so wealthy, placed in situations requiring so much representation, that it would be degrading to them to take much thought about any thing but the beauty and fashion of their clothes; and that an anxiety on their part about the preservation of, to them, trifles would indicate meanness and parsimoniousness. The Young Lady's Mentor A Guide to the Formation of Character. In a Series of Letters to Her Unknown Friends
The negative obligation not to inflict inhuman or degrading treatment was unqualified. Times, Sunday Times
April Redding argues the search was an unconstitutional and degrading violation of her daughter's rights.
Nero's boyish pride by taunting him with what she called his degrading and unmanly subjection to his mother. Nero Makers of History Series
How come we are subjected to torture and cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment?
Definitions of erotica, degrading pornography, and violent pornography can be problematic.
Prisoners of war were subjected to inhuman and degrading treatment.
Intimacy then becomes cold and degrading, leading the couple farther apart, not closer together.
And in extreme cases Article 3 prohibits inhuman and degrading treatment of older people. Times, Sunday Times
All but two have been very pleasant (one made racially degrading statements to me, and the other was just plain mean), but those two make it hard for all the others.
But others fear that it could cut corners in the name of economic expediency resulting in a degrading of justice. Times, Sunday Times
They could not shut their eyes to the ugly and degrading side of wine-drinking and see only the delightful side.
No one should have to suffer such degrading treatment.
Such degrading practices of prostituting a martial art were repugnant to me so I avoided the term jujitsu and adopted judo in its stead.
Sentencing a person to life imprisonment with no prospect of release and no possibility of review amounted to inhuman and degrading treatment. Times, Sunday Times
This decrease in quality will have a cascade effect on discipline within the ranks, degrading combat effectiveness for these units.
It's a cheap restaurant that is degrading to woman.
She felt he was degrading her by making her report to the director.
Scipio's political career was mere puppetry, and his military career was as brief as it was degrading.
a base, degrading way of life
After the long, corrupt reign of an old debauched Prince, whose vices were degrading to himself and to a nation groaning under the lash of prostitution and caprice, the most cheering changes were expected from the known exemplariness of his successor and the amiableness of his consort. Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete
UTP promises less congestion for ISPs and end users without degrading overall download speeds. UFies.org: May 2010 Archives
This will keep them supple without degrading the rubber. Times, Sunday Times
I-R-I, With the current left-wing cultural mantra advising bed-hopping “pin cushions” (The Mr. and I loved your description) to run down to the nearest abortion mill as an alternative form of birth control, is pitiful, selfish and degrading. Think Progress » New Bush Policy: All Gays Should Be Celibate
The time has come for a Basic Income Grant as one way of responding to the degrading poverty that plagues our country and weighs heavily upon our minds and morality.
Even to unfold Mrs. Haffen's dirty newspaper would have seemed degrading.
Far from degrading that character, as the comic is wont to do, the stoic ethic here takes on a sacred or beatific grace, but one that nevertheless permits the audience to distance themselves from its ethical dimension.
Whether or not locals are actually degrading the forest through browsing and fuelwood collection or foresters are actually dismantling the forest through bribery and tree harvesting are not the most immediate questions.
I'd been through the trauma of losing a house once before and I knew how demoralizing and degrading it is.
To get by and earn at least some money, many are forced into degrading and menial work.
Researchers would like to replace this rather haphazard method by further developing enzyme retting, which would use selected pectin-degrading enzymes to ret the straw under controlled conditions. Just the flax, ma'am
As such, some peatlands are relict landforms, no longer actively accumulating peat, while other peatlands may even be slowly degrading, some even back to their mineral wetland origins.
And thus much for the second thing considerable in the dehortation; namely, the thing we are therein dehorted from, which is that mean, sordid, and degrading vice of covetousness: the nature of which I have been endeavouring to make out, both negatively, by shewing what it is not; and positively, by shewing what it is, and wherein it consists. Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. III.
The Crimson Hand expressed the ineludible gripe, in which mortality clutches the highest and purest of earthly mould, degrading them into kindred with the lowest, and even with the very brutes, like whom their Mosses from an Old Manse
The crimson hand expressed the ineludible gripe in which mortality clutches the highest and purest of earthly mould, degrading them into kindred with the lowest, and even with the very brutes, like whom their visible frames return to dust. The Short-story
He is just offended by an incongruous adaptation, which, in his opinion, undermines his own concept by degrading his heroine.
Women, including MtF TSs don't refer to themselves in degrading ways, just "MtF" TG and CDing men do this. HBS
We all think it feels degrading to be asked to describe the way we look, as if our attributes were the features on a used car.
The room is furnished with a set of Roman emperors, -- they are not placed in their proper order; for in the mad revelry of the evening, this family of frenzy have decollated all of them, except Nero; and his manners had too great a similarity to their own, to admit of his suffering so degrading an insult; their reverence for _virtue_ induced them to spare his head. The Works of William Hogarth: In a Series of Engravings With Descriptions, and a Comment on Their Moral Tendency
He has been treated in a cruel, inhumane and degrading manner, he wants the authorities to answer for that.
Leapor sees such a woman degrading herself as a miser: Then let her quit Extravagance and Play.
The Pentagon is not succeeding in degrading the Taliban's military capacity. Robert Naiman: Is the Pentagon Deliberately "Degrading" Afghanistan's Capacity for Peace?
It has been considering whether their transfer would breach Article 3 rights on prohibition of inhuman and degrading treatment. Times, Sunday Times
A lawyer has told the hearing the standard of care was so poor it could amount to inhuman and degrading treatment under human rights laws. The Sun
One person who assisted CiA Inspector General John Helgerson with his probe was Mary O. McCarthy, who alleged CIA officials lied to members of Congress during an intelligence briefing when they said the agency did not violate treaties that bar, cruel, inhumane or degrading treatment of detainees during interrogations, according to a May 14, 2006, front-page story in The Washington Post. Bill of Rights Defense Committee - Headlines
Maybe I'm a prude, but ever since PBS (Frontline, I think) did a story about young girls being "sandwiched"--two guys w/ one girl w/ two holes (not incl mouth) in the middle--I've decided that something is influencing kids to be degrading. Do sexually "degrading" song lyrics lure teenagers into bad sex?
Let's stop wasting money and put it to better use building schools, hospitals and productive enterprises that will lift our people out of degrading poverty.
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Demeaning, degrading, bigoted, and prejudiced ideas and behaviours are fought every day around the world.
And in extreme cases Article 3 prohibits inhuman and degrading treatment of older people. Times, Sunday Times
The negative obligation not to inflict inhuman or degrading treatment was unqualified. Times, Sunday Times
Additionally, it has also been suggested that polygalacturonase action on the pectin network may enhance the action of other cell wall-degrading enzymes by increasing the accessibility of such enzymes to their substrates.
She was a young woman, quite a happy woman, but in order to save herself during the war she stepped out of the crowd of inmates in order to brutalise her co-sufferers and this was already her way of degrading herself, of condemning herself.
While torture is non-existent in New Zealand, and cruel, inhuman or degrading punishment very rare, it is always good to have a backstop to make sure we stick to our ideals.
Those against capital punishment argue that it is brutal and degrading, while supporters regard it as an essential way of achieving vengeance/revenge for terrible crimes.
We have no education, no money, no political empowerment and we have objectified women to a level that is very degrading.
Paradise is of the highest merit -- not phantomatic, and yet removed from every thing degrading. Literary Remains, Volume 1
Sentencing a person to life imprisonment with no prospect of release and no possibility of review amounted to inhuman and degrading treatment. Times, Sunday Times
Iraq has had to submit to a degrading national strip search.
A lawyer has told the hearing the standard of care was so poor it could amount to inhuman and degrading treatment under human rights laws. The Sun
Crucially, the Supreme Court identified non-violent materials which are ‘degrading or dehumanizing’ as a regulable category.
Sentencing a person to life imprisonment with no prospect of release and no possibility of review amounted to inhuman and degrading treatment. Times, Sunday Times
But if you knew he had been a match and had nicked 'em for at least three hundred dollars, would you still think something malignant might be put over on him by a mere scrub buckeroo named Sandy Sawtelle, that never made a cent in his life except by the most degrading manual labour? Ma Pettengill
The western practice of "bulldogging," now permitted in some Wild West shows, is disgusting, degrading, and never should be permitted. The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals A Book of Personal Observations
The law was “an insulting attempt to put the laborer under a legislative tutelage, which is not only degrading to his manhood, but subversive of his rights as a citizen of the United States.” A History of American Law
Besides violence, another ingredient which these hip hop groups have in common in the lyrics to their ‘songs’ are liberal use of the F-word and aggressive, sexually explicit and degrading references to women.
This will keep them supple without degrading the rubber. Times, Sunday Times
“Our commanders think that these additional forces and one of the reasons for the president's decision to try and accelerate their deployment is the view that this extended surge has the opportunity to make significant gains in terms of reversing the momentum of the Taliban, denying control of Afghan territory and degrading their capabilities” State of the Union: John King's Crib Sheet for December 6
What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self. George Eliot
That isn't to deny that a war with tens of thousands of people doesn't have a significant administrative overhead; rather, that focusing on this overhead (which laughs at the term efficient) ends up seriously degrading our ability to actually achieve victory. Registan.net
Mrs. Uhler knew that her husband expected of her a degree of personal attention to household matters that she considered degrading to her condition as a wife; and, because he _expected_ this, she, in order to maintain the dignity of her position, gave even less attention to these matters than would otherwise have been the case. Home Lights and Shadows
This is because stores often hook up many TVs to one video source, degrading image quality across all the screens.
Were the jurors who looked over this degrading garment imagining one of their own children being forced to wear it?
They should not be subject to inhumane or degrading treatment. Times, Sunday Times
It has been considering whether their transfer would breach Article 3 rights on prohibition of inhuman and degrading treatment. Times, Sunday Times
Asylum-seekers have long faced such degrading treatment.
Their orators grew magniloquent over its tyrannical oppression; the Southern press overflowed with that marvellous exuberance of diatribe of which they are the acknowledged masters -- to all of which the complaisant North gave a ready and subservient concurrence, until the very name reeked in the public mind with infamous associations and degrading ideas. Bricks without Straw A Novel
As with other metal systems, copper is intentionally alloyed to improve its strength without unduly degrading ductility or workability.
I also had to continue to line up at the welfare office and go through a degrading means test to secure a childcare subsidy that didn't even come close to covering the cost of daycare.
They are publicly branded with the degrading suspicion of being utterly unworthy of the name of citizens, and their business arrangements interrupted without warning. Times, Sunday Times
The singer phrases with eloquence, without degrading into Romantic breast-beating.
Cabin staff and passengers alike witnessed the degrading and humiliating scene of the women being dragged the full length of the cabin.
I'm not a f--- ing kitten, and "catcalling" is far from endearing or sweet, it's degrading, disgusting and often times terrifying. Giulia Rozzi: A Cure For Cat-Calling?
But if he's captured in a humiliating or degrading way, it may discourage people from joining the movement.
But others fear that it could cut corners in the name of economic expediency resulting in a degrading of justice. Times, Sunday Times
The absolute nature of Article 3 requires that no one should be exposed to inhumane or degrading treatment. Times, Sunday Times
Just to drive in the twenty miles or so from Santa Cruz to Bombay is to confront a festering mass of degrading humanity, for which despite his reading the imagination of the Westerner has not really prepared him. The Christian Minority in the World of Tomorrow
the vicious and degrading cult of violence
That advert is disgusting, degrading to womankind and downright dangerous.
Children are to be found in it as well, waiting till their fathers and mothers are ready to go home, sipping from the glasses of their elders, listening to the coarse language and degrading conversation, catching the contagion of it, familiarising themselves with licentiousness and debauchery. DRINK, TEMPERANCE, AND THRIFT
You are presenting your body in an objectifying and degrading manner.
Such absolute power can easily corrupt, and it is no wonder that the feudal system in Pakistan is humanly degrading.
It has been considering whether their transfer would breach Article 3 rights on prohibition of inhuman and degrading treatment. Times, Sunday Times
She felt he was degrading her by making her report to the director.
What part did public policy actually play in degrading the quality of life in these places below accepted standards of human health and decency?
This can result in the filter migrating into and degrading the plastic - while also reducing the potency of the formulation left behind.
The report argues convincingly that the lads mags such as Zoo and Nuts that contain objectified and degrading images of women, should be seen as a teenage magazine for boys. 2009 November « My Political Ramblings…
Rape, although unspeakably degrading for a woman, in no way degrades its victims morally.
They violate the convention against torture and other forms of cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment.
No one should have to suffer such degrading treatment.
Recent advances in azo - dye - degrading bacteria and azo reductase were reviewed.
Oh, I’m just an optimistic person, ralph … I really believe that mossy is gonna find a job that won’t be so personally degrading soon, there’s an opening on the right for a bad fake 70’s pimp coming up I hear …. Think Progress » San Francisco Commonwealth Club postpones O’Keefe event.
The applicant alleged that his whole-life sentence amounted to inhuman and degrading treatment as he had no hope of release. Times, Sunday Times
The gallants of that age, disinterested, aspiring, and lofty-minded, even in their coxcombry, were strangers to those degrading and mischievous pursuits which are usually termed low amours. The Monastery
In particular those articles of the statute survive which forbid cruel, inhuman, or degrading punishment.
Oil can kill small organisims, such as barnacles, while degrading seagrasses The Shad Plank
My wife had to wash me like a child, which felt degrading and humiliating.
Instead of leading the life of an adventurer king, Herc is forced to perform 12 degrading and demeaning labors.
A recent article reported that lagoons and sprayfields for animal waste near streams and watercourses may be significantly degrading water quality and endangering human health.
But some gift: now anytime anybody barks a command her way, no matter how degrading or destructive, Ella instinctively jumps to the ready.
He said some immigrants were being detained in degrading conditions, and cited numerous allegations of beatings by police officers. EU to Reinforce Greek Border
What she found most humbling in his work was his analysis of the degrading effect of the shame and humiliation, which infect coloniser and colonised alike. Claire Denis: 'For me, film-making is a journey into the impossible'
Mr. Harris is the only foreigner who was ever permitted to enter the palace of the Tycoon of Japan without the degrading forms of submission formerly exacted from the Dutch. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 32, June, 1860
Such absolute power can easily corrupt, and it is no wonder that the feudal system in Pakistan is humanly degrading.
The applicant alleged that his whole-life sentence amounted to inhuman and degrading treatment as he had no hope of release. Times, Sunday Times
What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self. George Eliot
The beauticians at Montreal Barber & Beauty Parlour claim that, as men face more pressure and stress at work, the quality of their skin is degrading due to insomnia and hypertension.
They are publicly branded with the degrading suspicion of being utterly unworthy of the name of citizens, and their business arrangements interrupted without warning. Times, Sunday Times
The defence lawyers claimed that the prisoners had been subjected to cruel and degrading treatment.
I hope that this time we are not the leader in degrading our democracy, but have the wisdom to direct our outrage to produce a better government. Dr. Behzad Mohit: The U.S. Tea Party and General Strikes in Europe -- The Outrage of the Middle Class
And in extreme cases Article 3 prohibits inhuman and degrading treatment of older people. Times, Sunday Times
At a given signal, the APC labels an inhibitor of a certain protein-degrading enzyme, whereupon the inhibitor is carried to the proteasome and destroyed. The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2004 - Information for the Public
A very unfortunate aspect of capital punishment, in my opinion, is the degrading effect it can have on the community.
What hurt me was the baseless accusations, the seeming refusal to actually read and understand what I was trying to say, and the degrading implications that I was hysterical.
‘It exposed a level of degrading and humiliating treatment of elderly people that should not be tolerated in this or any other society,’ he said.
I presume a marriage33 which is contracted with some great family, superior in wealth and influence, bears away the palm, since it confers upon the bridegroom not pleasure only but distinction. 34 Next comes the marriage made with equals; and last, wedlock with inferiors, which is apt to be regarded as degrading and disserviceable. Hiero
The Elu of Fifteen ought therefore to take the lead of his fellow-citizen, not in frivolous amusements, not in the degrading pursuits of the ambitious vulgar; but in the truly noble task of enlightening the mass of his countrymen, and of leaving his own name encircled, not with barbaric splendor, or attached to courtly gewgaws, but illustrated by the honors most worthy of our rational nature; coupled with the diffusion of knowledge, and gratefully pronounced by a few, at least, whom his wise beneficence has rescued from ignorance and vice. Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry
And second, we are killing, we are degrading our heroes, and that is a mistake.
The Bunnies came under fire from many critics, including the feminist Gloria Steinem, who derided the selection and training process - where looks trumped all - as degrading.
In particular those articles of the statute survive which forbid cruel, inhuman, or degrading punishment.
Honest labor, continued through reasonable hours, paid at a rate which assures a wholesome support, is ennobling; but overwork, that is hopeless of comfortable reward, is degrading in the extreme. White Slaves; or, the Oppression of the Worthy Poor
Bacteria accelerate silica dissolution in the sea by colonizing and enzymatically degrading the organic matrix of diatom frustules.
At issue is whether Congress will support the president's desire to clarify what's known as Common Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions, which outlaws what they call outrages upon personal dignity and humiliating and degrading treatment. CNN Transcript Sep 18, 2006
In Lindsay, we are told to embrace pain and foreswear joy in order to escape the evil and degrading trap of the material world, and in Stapledon we are told to embrace pain and foreswear joy because God is good (even though the story makes him clearly evil) and love Him even though he hates us. MIND MELD: Gods by the Bushel
Some of it is a modern version of a very ancient feeling that exchange is in some sense degrading, partly because of its calculatedness, partly because it seems to be unproductive in the sense that it seems to produce no physical embodiment of value, especially where it looks as if equal values are exchanged. Dictionary of the History of Ideas
The tarring and feathering of the sport has been a degrading spectacle these past few weeks. Times, Sunday Times
The European Revised Social Charter requires EU states to ban all forms of corporal punishment and any other forms of degrading treatment of children.
In 1998 the European Court of Human Rights unanimously found that the repeated caning of a young boy by his stepfather breached the boy's right to protection from inhuman or degrading punishment.
High levels of oxidants cause tissue injury by peroxidizing membrane lipids, degrading proteins, and oxidizing DNA.
Regarding the incident as one more humiliation in a degrading illness, I shuffled down the hall to a dirty, cramped toilet compartment.
Fragmentation of remaining habitat via subdividing large tracts into more marketable "ranchettes" leads to other degrading factors such as overgrazing, exotic plant expansion, lack of fire as a natural or prescribed process, and modification of local hydrological features by means of land leveling. Western Gulf coastal grasslands
Candid cameras give pleasure, the intimacies of other persons are interesting and when they're degrading to the mighty and great, they are all the more acceptable.
Prisoners of war were subjected to inhuman and degrading treatment.
A bonus of decoding the fungi's genome, Wolfe said, would be that, in degrading plant material, the fungi produces an enzyme called cellulase, of potential interest in biofuel processing. PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories
This was a bad man, and an American doctor going through his hair looking for lice, which is how that looked to me, I mean it doesn't get perhaps more degrading than that. CNN Transcript Dec 14, 2003
They emphasised that it was the circumstances of the individual case which led them to reject charges of degrading or inhuman treatment.
The absolute nature of Article 3 requires that no one should be exposed to inhumane or degrading treatment. Times, Sunday Times
By what hellish witchcraft had she been insnared into the degrading alliance recorded in this miserable scrap of paper? Aurora Floyd. A Novel
It was degrading even to contemplate that she would feel an obligation towards him.
Significantly, however, the federal statute does not impose criminal liability for cruel, inhuman, or degrading acts.
Relatives of the Guildford 4 and Birmingham 6 described the brutal and systematically degrading treatment the prisoners receive in jail.
The negative obligation not to inflict inhuman or degrading treatment was unqualified. Times, Sunday Times
Punk-rockers, ventriloquists' dummies, clowns, and show-business celebrities have taken the place of the preacher - and they are degrading the gospel.
And his over-eager, panting insistence that Australia sign verges on the degrading.
The red arrows in (C) point to a surface that is degrading with no sign of metaplasia with a thin metaplastic veneer. PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
Prisoner or not such treatment by his guards was uncalled for and degrading.
He found the work extremely degrading.
We did not engage in name-calling, degrading and verbally attacking others, even in our own defence.
A lawyer has told the hearing the standard of care was so poor it could amount to inhuman and degrading treatment under human rights laws. The Sun
Trampling of vegetation is one of the most widespread environmentally degrading repercussions of recreation and can also lead to excessive soil erosion.
Second, there is the issue of the increase or decrease in overtly exploitative, degrading and violent forms of sexuality.
Excessive humidity accumulated during the moulding procedure may trigger water-diluting reaction and material degrading, which may weaken the durability and the strength of finished parts.
The main phenol - degrading bacteria were Bacillus and Pseudomona.
They should not be subject to inhumane or degrading treatment. Times, Sunday Times
Critics of welfare have long said that welfare is degrading to the recipient.
This is because stores often hook up many TVs to one video source, degrading image quality across all the screens.
The applicant alleged that his whole-life sentence amounted to inhuman and degrading treatment as he had no hope of release. Times, Sunday Times
This dirtiness is certainly one of the greatest drawbacks to human felicity in this beautiful country, degrading the noble edifices dedicated to the worship of God, destroying the beautiful works destined for the benefit of his creatures. Life in Mexico, During a Residence of Two Years in That Country
The conqueror shall take a pride in exalting him that is low and abasing him that is high, preferring some and degrading others, at his pleasure, without any regard either to right or merit. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
She went on to explain the degrading treatment workers receive from management.
And our shame is doubled when we subject guests to such a degrading experience.
It's sad to note that in some quarters today even school boys tend to misconduct themselves on and off the field thereby degrading the institution and this beautiful sport.
What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self. George Eliot
“With this fiction,” one critic wrote, “Clarice Lispector awakens the literature currently being produced in Brazil from a depressing and degrading lethargy and elevates it to a level of universal perennity and perfection.” Clarice lispector | mother’s day, a pious invention « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground
How dare he humiliate her in this degrading way.
But the Pentagon is, apparently, succeeding in degrading the Taliban's political capacity: in particular, the Taliban's political capacity to strike a deal that ends the war and enforce the deal on its mid-level commanders and footsoldiers. Robert Naiman: Is the Pentagon Deliberately "Degrading" Afghanistan's Capacity for Peace?
If the degradandus be an archbishop, the degrading prelate removes his pallium.
The provisions of international law prohibiting torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment are among the most serious obligations placed on any state; the prohibition of torture in particular has the status of a peremptory norm of international law that can never be derogated and is imposed independent of whether a state is party to any particular treaty. Prevention of Torture - A Lot Still Needs to be Done

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