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1. These ordinary people cringed and winced as the experts subjected them to crushing and horribly patronising witticisms, The ultimate aim of this personal degradation was focussed on one thing; to single out only the most exceptional talents, while ensuring that the audience at home was vicariously thrilled and titillated by the humiliation of those who failed
2. of degradation and evil will vibrate at a much lower
3. degradation was focussed on one thing; to single out only the most
4. The rise of their nominal price is the effect, not of any degradation of the value of silver, but of the rise in their real price
5. The poorness of the pasture had, in his opinion, occasioned the degradation of their cattle, which degenerated sensibly from me generation to another
6. This rise, too, in the nominal or money price of all those different sorts of rude produce, has been the effect, not of any degradation in the value of silver, but of a rise in their real price
7. This degradation, both in the real and nominal value of wool, could never have happened in consequence of the natural course of things
8. Any rise in the money price of goods which proceeded altogether from the degradation of the value of silver, would affect all sorts of goods equally, and raise their price universally, a third, or a fourth, or a fifth part higher, according as silver happened to lose a third, or a fourth, or a fifth part of its former value
9. degradation both of the church and of monarchy
10. Taking the course of the present century at an average, the price of corn, it is acknowledged, even by those who account for this rise by the degradation of the value of silver, has risen much less than that of some other sorts of provisions
11. The rise in the price of those other sorts of provisions, therefore, cannot be owing altogether to the degradation of the value of silver
12. Some other causes must be taken into the account ; and those which have been above assigned, will, perhaps, without having recourse to the supposed degradation of the value of silver, sufficiently explain this rise in those particular sorts of
13. As to the high price of corn during these last ten or twelve years, it can be sufficiently accounted for from the badness of the seasons, without supposing any degradation in the value of silver
14. Even on the ship, no sailor had been such a demon that he’d subject her to this kind of degradation
15. was one of moral degradation
16. Those unproductive hands who should be maintained by a part only of the spare revenue of the people, may consume so great a share of their whole revenue, and thereby oblige so great a number to encroach upon their capitals, upon the funds destined for the maintenance of productive labour, that all the frugality and good conduct of individuals may not be able to compensate the waste and degradation of produce occasioned by this violent and forced encroachment
17. As Tragus shoved his phallus against her lips, it wasn’t a sense of degradation that
18. But that degradation in the value of silver, which, being the effect either of the peculiar situation or of the political institutions of a particular country, takes place only in that country, is a matter of very great consequence, which, far from tending to make anybody really richer, tends to make every body really poorer
19. But if the custom of weighing the gold coin should ever go into disuse, as it is very likely to do, and if the gold coin should ever fall into the same state of degradation in which it was before the late recoinage, the gain, or more properly the savings, of the bank, inconsequence of the imposition of a seignorage, would probably be very considerable
20. These causes seem to be other monopolies of different kinds: the degradation of the value of gold and silver below what it is in most other countries ; the exclusion from foreign markets by improper taxes upon exportation, and the narrowing of the home market, by still more improper taxes upon the transportation of goods from one part of the country to another ; but above all, that irregular and partial administration of justice which often protects the rich and powerful debtor from the pursuit of his injured creditor, and which makes the industrious part of the nation afraid to prepare goods for the consumption of those haughty and great men, to whom they dare not refuse to sell upon credit, and from whom they are altogether uncertain of repayment
21. The degradation in the quality of English wool, if not below what it was in former times, yet below what it naturally would have been in the present state of improvement and cultivation, must have been, it may perhaps be supposed, very nearly in proportion to the degradation of price
22. Notwithstanding the degradation of price, English wool is said to have been improved considerably during the course even of the present century
23. At what cost had she poured out her detestable story? The degradation which had been harboured in her soul like a sunken vessel and with a great tug at its lashings raised from the murky depths
24. Change is a process, a process of sublimation and degradation
25. Degradation of metamorphosis to
26. Their signature is sex, violence, hatred of the police, and obscene degradation of women
27. Those who may have rebelled against urinal art at least were spared for a time what was to follow, including contents thereof, and even more imaginative degradation than that
28. This is a statement of degradation
29. The day-to-day existence of most Jews in most places for the last two thousand years has been that of degradation at a group and personal level
30. or degradation to others
31. degradation of the profession of medicine and the imperious disorder caused since that 1965 Act
32. Frank was encouraging him a little, hoping to put something about genetic degradation in his doctoral dissertation
33. gruesome February morning and degradation had started to
34. Degradation had hit the Internet, but at first it only
35. He would tell people that poverty lead to starvation and moral degradation, and excessive wealth also had similar effect
36. Had the degradation started? Most probably it was
37. When winter came, no doubt degradation would start
38. There is environmental degradation, pollution, and multi-national corporations evading taxes, paying their executives millions of dollars for doing their dirty job, and making huge profits
39. This would save a lot of money in transporting raw materials to cities or foreign countries and transporting finished goods back to the villagers at great cost and environmental degradation
40. you and having you know the kind of shame and degradation I have
41. The puppets of degradation
42. It is not difficult to imagine the onslaught of degradation one would receive upon slipping into a pair of Octavia's slippers
43. The most condemnable aspect was that they occasioned the moral degradation in society with their corrupting influence
44. Unable to take the pain and degradation any longer, Marianne finally and mercifully, blacked out……
45. culturally equated with one of the strongest forms of degradation
46. But scarcely had they completed their degradation of Koth, when they were overrun by the Hyrkanians, and found themselves subjugated by sterner masters than the Hyborians had ever been
47. Regardless of how much humiliation and degradation there is
48. Gibbons are under major assault from multiple areas, illegal hunting, traditional medicine, trade, human encroachment and habitat loss and degradation
49. Gibbons are enduring horrendous, unbelievable habitat loss and degradation
50. However, the citizens were too weary to be hurt by the degradation