Our movie culture has descended into immaturity, deep and inhuman violence, a pervasive and flattened sexuality.
Much wickedness has descended upon the market for small companies, says tort lawyer John O'Quinn.
Cantor descended a narrow spiral staircase at the end of the hallway outside his office.
Ms. Norden says it's as if a fog has descended on her family's daily life.
An estimated 150, 000 Rangers fans had descended on Manchester for the final in May 2008.
But if his stint in the witness stand started out tough, it's swiftly descended to grueling.
An army helicopter descended into the space just yards from where I was standing.
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Thousands of athletes had already descended upon the city some the world's elite, many from overseas.
But when these forces were removed, Sierra Leone quickly descended into mayhem and murder.
Yousif said police descended on the mourners and fired tear gas, flash-bang grenades and birdshot.
The country had descended into anarchy, he said, with crime and corruption and general moral collapse.
Yet as Egypt has descended into chaos, President Obama and his administration have acted very guardedly.
Kenya's disputed presidential election in 2007 descended into violence in which more than 1, 000 were killed.
Known as Freedman, these blacks are descended from slaves once owned by the Nation.
Everyone alive today is descended from a long line of people who did reproduce themselves.
The exceptions, such as hoofed animals and birds have all descended from five-fingered ancestors.
FIS's armed wing descended into violence, and terrorism, in a bid to get its party unbanned.
His mother grew up in an upper-middle-class family but was descended from less-than-noble traders and farmers.
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Over the past 16 years or so, Israel largely descended into the European statecraft abyss.
P. crusaders who descended on South Florida last Wednesday to protest the state's recounts.
For now, the grace of Mr Gates has descended on Mr Roberts's young head.
Trouble is, polls cannot be held in a community that has descended into chaos.
This suggests that all present-day bison are descended from a very small group of animals.
Not surprisingly an air of gloom has descended over the office of Mr Prescott.
Each local whale has been photographed and classified by matriline, or a family of whales descended from a matriarch.
Afghanistan has not yet descended into the chaos that prevailed before the Taliban took over.
Dozens of angry protestors descended on Inglewood City Hall calling for Mr Morse to be sacked.
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It seems, therefore, that all of Hawaii's geese, both extinct and living, are descended from Canada geese.
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As the rally marched by the two ministry buildings, the militiamen descended and started hitting the protesters.
Over a few short years, the bluetooth earpiece has descended from futuristic marvel to technological faux pas.
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