When media organs fail fulfill their basic responsibilities, they degenerate quickly into democracy's undertaker.
It is a study of how easily American race relations can still degenerate into violence.
And I think it's still too early to tell whether things are going to degenerate that much.
Short of "whatever, " what worries many is the proven potential for popular demonstrations to degenerate into looting.
One of the series' most remarkable achievements comes with the four characters who function as racing's typical degenerate gamblers.
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The bench heard Mr Lennon launched a tirade against Mr McKee, calling him a "degenerate mug", before trouble broke out.
An art teacher in Kassel created Documenta in 1955 with the aim of unearthing artworks deemed degenerate by the Nazis.
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If we gave away large datasets that cost a lot of money to collect, the data would degenerate over time.
This protein is known also to accumulate in the neurons that degenerate in the brains of people with Alzheimer's disease.
Against the risk of disease, a Godless degenerate might argue, must be weighed the fact that many people find sex quite enjoyable.
We have allowed English to degenerate so far that we must waste years on it, just like the Egyptians of 2000 BC.
His life, as told by Mr Nasaw, is a cautionary tale of how a young idealist can degenerate into a rancid reactionary.
And even as we uphold these universal values, we do want to make sure that transitions do not degenerate into chaos and violence.
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As a subversive, he was exiled several times on one occasion for disparaging Cyrus the Great, the shah's great hero, as a sodomising degenerate.
There remains a risk, of course, that the legislature could degenerate into a factionalist quagmire in which all new legislation remains permanently stuck.
But in this they were helped by Indians remarkable ability to organise themselves in situations which in most other countries would degenerate into chaos.
The modern Middle East, with its tendency to rapidly degenerate any question into violence, shows what can happen when the ability to compromise disappears.
As for family values, America's small towns and rural havens suffer from higher rates of marital breakdown and illegitimate births than the degenerate big cities.
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As things degenerate shortages will develop and hoarding will take place.
When do family discussions degenerate into squabbles and then outright fights?
The new political settlement in Northern Ireland would not be allowed to degenerate into the crude ascendancy of the Protestant majority that prevailed before the Troubles.
Capitalism and Democracy become corrupted and degenerate into a continuous round of theft, extortion and aggression at the point of a gun under the color of law.
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To be sure, Braque and his fellow Cubist Picasso, who also stayed in Paris had a precarious position during the war, for the Germans considered them "degenerate" modern artists.
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We will create entirely new economies to buy the products that the new economic activity and productive capability will generate instead of allowing it degenerate into destructive inflation.
"This could easily degenerate into chaos, " concedes Paul Heitman, a senior program architect at Comverge, which hopes to extend its metering expertise for air-conditioning systems to plug-in cars.
First, any effort to have the IRS police advocacy activities of social-welfare organizations is bound to be clumsy and prone to degenerate into either selective or broad witch hunts.
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The assertion that there is no difference between Romney and Obama is an expression of frustration with our admittedly degenerate and bankrupt democracy, but it simply is not true.
As long as this legacy goes unquestioned and essentially endorsed by me-too Republicans unable to craft a pro-capitalist message the state of our union will continue to degenerate.
According to our Daily Reckoning theory of how the world works, once a system becomes degenerate it will continue to become more and more degenerate until it finally falls apart.
Radio and TV debates invariably degenerate into shouting matches.
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