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1. Layers of this silica form and do not degrade
2. It was their interest not only to degrade in all cases the value of the surplus produce of the colony, but in many cases to discourage and keep down the natural increase of its quantity
3. That of the servants tends to stunt the natural growth of every part of the produce in which they choose to deal; of what is destined for home consumption, as well as of what is destined for exportation; and consequently to degrade the cultivation of the whole country, and to reduce the number of its inhabitants
4. Every such encroachment, every violation of that natural distribution, which the most perfect liberty would establish, must, according to this system, necessarily degrade, more or less, from one year to another, the value and sum total of the annual produce, and must necessarily occasion a gradual declension in the real wealth and revenue of the society ; a declension, of which the progress must be quicker or slower, according to the degree of this
5. If the landlords should, the greater part of them, be tempted to farm the whole of their own lands, the country (instead of sober and industrious tenants, who are bound by their own interest to cultivate as well as their capital and skill will allow them) would be filled with idle and profligate bailiffs, whose abusive management would soon degrade the cultivation, and reduce the annual produce of the land, to the diminution, not only of the revenue of their masters, but of the most important part of that of the whole society
6. Saldon was sorry to be a part of the race that could degrade to this level
7. The survivors of these atrocities have never completely recovered from the painful recollection of their miserable and demoralizing existence that sought to degrade the human spirit
8. A civilized society reflects the courage and wisdom needed to challenge mistaken assumptions that otherwise degrade us as human beings; that quickly encourage proper forms of behavior not only for their own sake but also because of the positive examples they set for other people
9. · A man must elevate himself by his own mind, not degrade himself
10. directly impact 2,278 acres of forestland, and degrade water quality in streams adjacent to the mine
11. They rewrite history to degrade the United States whenever they can
12. The owners of the shrine must have discovered the powers of the crystals a long time before the rest of the continents, as their crystals had either been replaced or did not degrade like the others that Athene had seen
13. the other hand, the insistence on constant amusement as the price of attention can degrade public
14. same fuck enhance the male and degrade the female? For precisely the reason that it is
15. It is important to know that there are men who will work to defeat this because of the constructs of man and how tightly they grasp to the aspects of these that consider themselves more important than others and give only the ability to degrade others within them
16. 5 minutes taken away would leave only 7 minutes; 4 minutes, 30 seconds passed before the shield began to degrade
17. In the neighborhood where Proctor grew up, children grow up hurting without their fathers, watch their mothers shack up with other men, live in poverty, become sexually active, degrade girls, and memorize sexually explicit songs with the N, B, and F-words
18. “You shouldn’t degrade your own culture
19. There were also countless attempts to humiliate and degrade the
20. To say that infant baptism confers grace mechanically, as a chemical solution produces an effect on a photographic plate, and that if water and certain words are used by a thoughtless, careless clergyman over the child of thoughtless, ignorant parents, the child is at once born again,-to say, furthermore, that an immense spiritual effect is produced by baptism when no effect whatever can be seen,�all this, to many thinking persons, seems calculated to degrade baptism! It tends to make observers suppose that baptism is useless, or that regeneration means nothing at all
21. A threat to national security has a range of objectives: it drastically degrade the quality of life for the inhabitants of the state example Gaza and Israel
22. conscience and degrade themselves
23. Krishn told Arjun earlier that he ought not to degrade his
24. What awful, fabricated tales that degrade Islam’s position in the view of the entirety of civilized human society!
25. Poison words are these words that when used on a page, degrade the quality of the page for search engines
26. “ These shackles and chains weren’t used so much for torture, but as a means to degrade and berate
27. "Oh, so because you're my father and the King, I should let you degrade me to that level? Well, listen here, you're not my King! I renounce citizenship! Send me to jail or execute me for my insolence towards the King of this country! Why would I care? You might be the man who made my mother pregnant with me but are you really a father to me? Not only have you been absent all my life, but you see me as no more than a piece of meat and prostituted me to your nephew in exchange for him becoming your successor so you can save your son! And all that speech a few days ago about legitimizing me, and that you cared about me and everything, was that just a lie?" She responded with the same tone
28. When, in spite of your existing, “respectable” position in society, with its concomitant titles, regalia and authority, your life creativity begins to degrade gradually in some of the Directions of development to the primitive levels of mental-sensuous activity common to aboriginals of the “so-and-so” tribe or to native peoples (close to their level of development) that jump around a sacrificial fire and worship their totem, then this may serve you “personally” as an obvious sign of the process (that tends to appear in your refocusings) of a gradual return to the states which bring the manifestation of your UFS closer to these tribes and peoples, no matter in which Time Flows you “personally” (or they) are
29. How wonderfully prevailing Pierre’s urges had been over the boy; how wickedly superb it had been to degrade and violate him
30. They saw this woman degrade herself into
31. Always guard the purity of your aspiring, never let your desires pollute and degrade it
32. The arrogance of the idea that you cannot be affected by the mass-manufacturing and mass exploitation of resources which poison and degrade the global health of the Earth you live on… The idea that it is perfectly okay to buy chemicals and support the huge corporations of Monsanto and Dow Chemical Corporation and the Colgate Palmolive Company by buying insecticides to kill bugs and buying sprays and detergents and antiperspirants and perfumes and nail polish and bathroom cleanser and motor oil and all the other thousands of poisonous toxic products which they sell you… and expect not to be poisoned by the factories that manufacture these deadly poisons because they are not located where you live… is a universal hypocrisy of modern consumers
33. America had coal furnaces and chimneys for a hundred years after England… none of them needed to employ chimney sweeps… Why is that? Why did England need to degrade an entire lower class? Why did England whitewash this filthy invention of the chimney with Father Christmas
34. Have historians bothered to lay at his feet these crimes? how many hundreds of virgins did he rape in his lifetime? How many millions of Chinese did he starve and torture and degrade and impoverish and terrorize during his evil reign?
35. � How far we can degrade ourselves becomes unlimited because only the external observation and action of the dominator has any validity on our lives, and as such, we fall into a state of distracted, personal anomie with no internal sense of right and wrong, so long as we don't get caught
36. It gave the administration ammunition with which to degrade me
37. [127] The idea that we are all customers might sound off-putting as if that would degrade our all our human exchanges into a demeaning economic exchange
38. � If the other person thinks she/he is getting one off on me, that serves as their choice to degrade themselves and their reception of my act which happens on their terms
39. When tempers flare, things are often said without thought of the consequence and are simply meant to hurt, degrade or shame the other person into submission
40. • Is this an indoor or outdoor project? Most wood will degrade over time in the
41. It will degrade the whole conception of human life, by reducing human nature to the level of the animal races as to mortality, and will sweep away the two chief articles of natural religion, the stepping-stones of thought for faith in Revelation, namely, man’s belief in his own spiritual being and relationship with a spiritual and eternal world, and therefore his belief in a spiritual and eternal God
42. she is still the same, of course! Yes, there's no denying, the Svidrigailovs are a bitter pill! It's a bitter thing to spend one's life a governess in the provinces for two hundred roubles, but I know she would rather be a nigger on a plantation or a Lett with a German master than degrade her soul, and her moral dignity, by binding herself for ever to a man whom she does not respect and with whom she has nothing in common--for her own advantage
43. I am your vassal, but I am not your slave; your nobility neither has nor should have any right to dishonour or degrade my humble birth; and low-born peasant as I am, I have my self-respect as much as you, a lord and gentleman: with me your violence will be to no purpose, your wealth will have no weight, your words will have no power to deceive me, nor your sighs or tears to soften me: were I to see any of the things I speak of in him whom my parents gave me as a husband, his will should be mine, and mine should be bounded by his; and my honour being preserved even though my inclinations were not would willingly yield him what you, senor, would now obtain by force; and this I say lest you should suppose that any but my lawful husband shall ever win anything of me
44. For all that, he fancied some sage, either a friend or an enemy, might, by the aid of magic, have given them to the press; if a friend, in order to magnify and exalt them above the most famous ever achieved by any knight-errant; if an enemy, to bring them to naught and degrade them below the meanest ever recorded of any low squire, though as he said to himself, the
45. to repress my own emotions, I feel more acutely the various ills my sex are fated to bear--I feel that the evils they are subject to endure, degrade them so far
46. It would degrade me to marry Heathcliff now; so he shall never know how I love him: and that, not because he's handsome, Nelly, but because he's more myself than I am
47. He had listened till he heard Catherine say it would degrade her to marry him, and then he stayed to hear no further
48. "We have a wise ordinance in our Salique laws, which says, 'The crown of France shall never degrade the lance to the distaff'," said Montcalm, dryly, and with a little hauteur; but instantly adding, with his former frank and easy air: "as all the nobler qualities are hereditary, I can easily credit you; though, as I said before, courage has its limits, and humanity must not be forgotten
49. `Socialism mean "What's yours is mine, and what's mine's me own,"' observed Bundy, and during the laughter that greeted this definition Slyme was heard to say that Socialism meant Materialism, Atheism and Free Love, and if it were ever to come about it would degrade men and women to the level of brute beasts
50. The new manufactory’s products were actually superior to Nobel’s early accomplishments, but remained unsuitable as a shell filler for all the reasons most nitroglycerine-based explosives had: sweating, sensitivity, and its tendency to degrade in storage
1. what the dead creature had once been, so degraded
2. If new mines were discovered, as much superior to those of Potosi, as they were superior to those of Europe, the value of silver might be so much degraded as to render even the mines of Potosi not worth the working
3. A produce, of which the value is principally derived from its scarcity, is necessarily degraded by its abundance
4. For this great coinage, the bank (inconsequence of the worn and degraded state into which the gold coin had fallen a few years ago) was frequently obliged to purchase gold bullion at the high price of four pounds an ounce, which it soon after issued in coin at £3:17:10 1/2 an ounce, losing in this manner between two and a half and three per cent
5. The promissory notes of those banking companies constituted, at that time, the far greater part of the currency of Scotland, which this uncertainty of payment necessarily degraded below value of gold and silver money
6. But at Carlisle, bills were paid in gold and silver ; whereas at Dumfries they were paid in Scotch bank notes ; and the uncertainty of getting these bank notes exchanged for gold and silver coin, had thus degraded them four per cent
7. sometimes depended upon the condition, that the holder of the note should bring the change of a guinea to the person who issued it; a condition which the holders of such notes might frequently find it very difficult to fulfil, and which must have degraded this currency below the value of gold and silver money
8. with images of former ships, now degraded and
9. Should this currency, therefore, be at any time worn, clipt, or otherwise degraded below its standard value, the state, by a reformation of its coin, can effectually re-establish its currency
10. The money of such banks, being better than the common currency of the country, necessarily bore an agio, which was greater or smaller, according as the currency was supposed to be more or less degraded below the standard of the state
11. But when the coin is degraded below its standard weight, the annual coinage must, besides this, fill up the large vacuities which exportation and the melting pot are continually making in the current coin
12. toned and painted wood and brick and stone did all too well to draw eyes away from the unkempt and degraded forms of the lowliest dwellers
13. They feel, or imagine, that if their assemblies, which they are fond of calling parliaments, and of considering as equal in authority to the parliament of Great Britain, should be so far degraded as to become the humble ministers and executive officers of that parliament, the greater part of their own importance would be at an end
14. The person subject to such jurisdiction is necessarily degraded by it, and, instead of being one of the most respectable, is rendered one of the meanest and most contemptible persons in the society
15. degraded his memory and replaced it now with feelings of
16. The public, the farmer, the landlord, all suffer more or less by this degraded cultivation
17. Ranking with that warning he also said, apropos of war: „War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things; the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks nothing worth a war, is worse
18. The same argument (once) held for slaves who were Equally degraded as men and women
19. Her handwriting had already degraded to the point only a few could read it
20. Degraded science is one more loosening of the principles upon which America and the West are founded
21. The value of human life must be degraded
22. That myths of stolen elections, the lives of opponents corrupted or degraded, and the alleged victimization of their own constituencies are instructive keys to the nature of liberalism and its infection of the Democratic Party
23. of truth have multiplied and degraded in time
24. 23:2-31 The Scribes and the Pharisees sit on Moses’ seat therefore everything whatever they bid you observe that observe and do but do nothing like their works because they say and do not do it because they bind heavy burdens and too difficult to be carried and lay them on men’s shoulders but they themselves will not carry any of those things with one of their fingers but all their works they do to be seen by men; they make their phylacteries broad and enlarge the borders of their garment and love the uppermost rooms at feasts and the best seats in the synagogues and greetings in the Markets and love to be called: “Rabbi Rabbi” by men; but do not be called Rabbi because only one is your Master even Christ and you are all brothers anyway; and call no man on the Earth your father because only one is your Father who is in Heaven; neither be called masters because the one is your Master even the Christ but he who is greatest among you shall be your servant and whoever shall exalt himself shall be degraded; and he who shall humble himself shall be exalted; but disaster to you Scribes and Pharisees hypocrites! Because you block the Kingdom of Heaven for men because you neither go in yourselves nor do you allow those who are entering to enter inside; disaster to you Scribes and Pharisees hypocrites! Because you devour widows’ houses and make long prayers as a pretence therefore you shall receive the greater damnation; disaster to you Scribes and Pharisees hypocrites! Because you cross land and sea to make one proselyte and when he is made you make him twice more the child of Hell than you yourselves; disaster to you you blind guides who say: Whoever shall swear by the temple it is nothing but whoever shall swear by the gold of the temple is a debtor! You fools and blind ones because which is greater the gold or the temple that sanctifies the gold? and you say: Whoever shall swear by the altar it is nothing but whoever swears by the gift that is upon it he is guilty; You fools and blind ones because; which is greater the gift or the altar that sanctifies the gift? Therefore whoever shall swear by the altar swears by it and by all things on it and whoever shall swear by the temple swears by it and by him who dwells in it and he who shall swear by Heaven swears by the throne of God and by Him who sits on it; disaster to you Scribes and Pharisees hypocrites! Because you pay the tithes of mint and anise and cumin and have omitted the weightier matters of the law judgment mercy and faith; this you ought to have done and not left the other undone; you blind guides who strain out a gnat and swallow a camel; disaster to you Scribes and Pharisees hypocrites! Because you make the outside of the cup and of the plate clean but inside they are full of extortion and excess; blind Pharisee first clean that which is inside the cup and plate so that the outside of it may be clean also; Disaster to you Scribes and Pharisees hypocrites! Because you are like whitened tombs which indeed appear beautiful outwardly but are full of dead men’s bones and all the uncleanness inside; even so you also appear to men righteous outwardly but inside you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity; disaster to you Scribes and Pharisees hypocrites! Because you build the tombs of the prophets and decorate the grave sites of the righteous and you say: If we had been in the days of our fathers we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets; therefore you are witnesses against yourselves that you are all the children of those who killed the prophets; Fulfil the stature of your fathers you serpents you generation of vipers; how can you escape the damnation of Hell? So note that I send you prophets and wise men and Scribes; and some of them you shall kill and crucify and some of them you shall beat in your synagogues and persecute from city to city so that on you may come all the righteous bloodshed on the Earth from the blood of righteous Abel until the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias whom you all killed between the temple and the altar; Truly I say to you all these things shall come on this generation
25. Jesus looked upon such a course of expected miracle working as a harking back to the olden days of ignorant magic and the degraded practices of the savage medicine men
26. Legend made Thugra Khotan more than human; his worship yet lingered in a mongrel degraded cult, whose votaries stamped his likeness on coins to pay the way of their dead over the great river of darkness of which the Styx was but the material shadow
27. The nameless horror had been taking even more awful shape, since she had recognized the coin in the Shemite's hand the night before—one of those secretly molded by the degraded Zugite cult, bearing the features of a man dead three thousand years
28. With its absurd and degraded giants
29. She was extremely pleased with this “acquisition” from “The Imperial House Diamond Boutique” – it helped to make up for some of the damages her family had suffered at the hands of Hu Lyang – yet she was not satisfied…it was still not enough! She thought of the rape and defilement of her grand-daughter Marianne by Hu Lyang and how degraded and violated she had felt – she was still receiving psychological counselling…
30. 11 Pilate spoke more truly than he knew when, after Jesus had been scourged, he presented him before the multitude, exclaiming, "Behold the man!" Indeed, the fear-ridden Roman governor little dreamed that at just that moment the universe stood at attention, gazing upon this unique scene of its beloved Sovereign thus subjected in humiliation to the taunts and blows of his darkened and degraded mortal subjects
31. To the southwest dwell scattered clans of degraded, cave-dwelling savages, whose speech is of the most primitive form, yet who still retain the name of Picts, which has come to mean merely a term designating men—themselves, to distinguish them from the true beasts with which they contend for life and food
32. When Baloh tried the shield degraded by 3 points more
33. Then it degraded to 4 electrons
34. She resented the white religious systems that condoned rape through silence and degraded women with blame
35. A degraded battery pack will reduce performance and fuel economy, but not leave the car inoperable
36. It however climbed slowly and its high altitude performances degraded quickly as it went up
37. from the room into a storm of hysterical tears, degraded even in defiance, damned
38. Severely handicapped by their degraded computers and their sick crews, the Morg cruisers fared badly against the massive missile salvo fired by the Human cruisers of Konovalov’s force
39. The carving had been so degraded
40. ” said George, “It’s very stylised and degraded but the letters
41. In the following years his eyesight degraded to the level of legal blindness
42. paying attention to your sound becomes degraded by the lack of
43. Poor degraded wretches
44. The word “abased” in the above verse means to be degraded or humiliated – to be lowered or brought down
45. The basic molecular structure of what remains is also degraded and nutritionally inferior
46. And what is man now?� A fallen creature, a ruin, a being that shows the marks of corruption all over, his heart like Nebuchadnezzar, degraded and earthly, looking down and not up,�his affections like a household in disorder, calling no man master, all extravagance and confusion,�his understanding like a lamp flickering in the socket, impotent to guide him, not knowing good from evil,�his will like a rudderless ship, tossed to and fro by every desire, and constant only in choosing any way rather than God's
47. He wrote editorials and appeared on debate shows, promoting his anti-Dark Age agenda, and degraded those who doubted him during his first term
48. degraded and their soles have worn-out, leaving them unsafe for running
49. that this Soul within us can also descend to an inferior, degraded level
50. of the Ramayana, even the mind possessed of knowledge is degraded to
1. degrades, due to the obsolescence of
2. Even though cemeteries also degrades over time, it is much better than to be dumped into a hole with other animal’s bones! Someone HAS to take responsibility for this, we will not let this go!
3. degrades that philosophy with her bubbly smile
4. The crime of capitalism is that it denies this self-activity and self-determinism to the worker in production, mutilates the laborer into a fragment of a man, degrades him to the level of the appendage of a machine
5. So is it with the flesh of donkeys and mules, and any meat that degrades man’s spirit “…and that over which has been invoked the name of other than Al’lah …”: the food presented for mean and object purposes, that is any banquet prepared for any purpose other than God’s sake, you should not attend it or eat from it
6. And when He tests him by restricting His favors upon him, does he say: ‘My Lord degrades me’?”
7. “And when He tries them by restricting His provision towards them, do they say, ‘My Lord degrades me?”
8. That degrades the reader’s
9. Once an Indian goes out in public and degrades themselves and starves and does incredibly stupid things for no reason, except to experience hardships that other sensible people would never do
10. � Grading degrades every student and turns learning into a competitive process in which cheating becomes more and more likely depending on the extrinsic value students place on their learning
11. Whoever degrades another degrades me,
12. The only difference consists in the opposite character of the equality advocated by these two men; one is the equality that elevates, the other is the equality that degrades; one brings a king within reach of the guillotine, the other elevates the people to a level with the throne
13. Designed to expand 10Base-T Ethernet networks, the star bus is rarely seen today because of the speed limitations of coaxial bus networks, which can function as a bottleneck that degrades the performance of faster star network technologies such as Fast Ethernet
14. When the utilization increases to approximately 80 percent, the number of collisions increases to the point at which the performance of the network noticeably degrades
15. You may even think it degrading—for I see now your habits have been what the world calls refined: your tastes lean to the ideal, and your society has at least been amongst the educated; but I consider that no service degrades which can better our race
16. They all know at the bottom of their hearts that they are engaged in a shameful business, that their share in it stains and degrades them in the eyes of those persons whose opinion they value
1. Of all the dreadful shocks experienced that day, nothing compared to the sudden and degrading catastrophe that he had just suffered as he’d bent down to pick up the soap in the prison shower
2. nothing compared to the sudden and degrading catastrophe that he
3. could travel without degrading himself by running
4. Even though she had done things Desa considered many times more degrading than admitting a mistake, Valla thought differently, maybe it was because she had grown up too fast out in that pass? If Desa could avoid teasing and prodding, Valla was going to come around
5. and yell degrading comments
6. English wool, cannot be even so mixed with Spanish wool, as to enter into the composition without spoiling and degrading, in some degree, the fabric of the cloth
7. Torbin thought of protesting this time, expressing his disgust that he, someone so important to their connection with humanity, should be treated in this degrading way
8. They had somehow made it across the border into Mexico where they were captured this time by a band of Mexicans and dragged back to some village and there, half dead, treated to the most degrading and brutal tortures before finally being killed
9. He hated him more for bringing all men down to that degrading level of baseness by his outrageous violation of her innocent body; his own innocent daughter
10. The shortcomings inherent in Modern Art (merely) serve to debase the dignity of our society, its customs and traditions, while degrading (higher) culture in general
11. What are the long-term consequences of undercutting and degrading the physical body as a
12. The Bible tells us that they both took place as a consequence of the degrading of moral behavior, a straying away from the wisdom of the ages
13. is degrading and promotes rejection
14. operated on the grapevine which is insulting and degrading
15. gave further proof that the rumor mill was judgmental, degrading, and
16. Once the unique moral worth of every human being is rejected there are no barriers to the most horrible and degrading treatment of human beings by other human beings that can be imagined
17. Chesterton that the church “is the only institution that protects us against the degrading servitude of becoming a product of our century”
18. Furthermore, after explaining how easy it is to understand God’s love for the homosexuals while hating their “sin”, just as parents love their children while at the same time hating their bad deeds, Roger offered for the reporter’s consideration what Chesterton said about the church: “She is the only institution which protects us from the degrading servitude of becoming a child of our time
19. As an afterthought, it is interesting to note that because of her attitude to David humbling himself before the Lord, she was to bear no children and died childless, which in ancient Israel was the most degrading thing that could befall a woman
20. "You won't be harmed, and you won't be forced to do anything degrading or outside your duties
21. “The harvest is degrading quickly
22. If pleaders were to abandon and consider it just as degrading as prostitution, English rule would break up in a day
23. degrading Rochelle, screaming that he was going to kill her and the
24. Ah! Because Severa, although had slightly modulated the reaches of her dictatorship; on special occasions in which she wanted to test the validity of her arguments, she forgot the newly coming democracy, and returned to the degrading of her old regime
25. We were the fuckwits degrading the land, causing salination, destroying the ecosystems
26. That alone must have been humiliating and degrading for someone so bright and prideful
27. “And my samples are degrading as we speak, too
28. As before, she was totally nude but this time she had been tied to a wide chair, her legs, spread and tied to the front legs of the chair…absolutely lewd and degrading!
29. It’s degrading really, even though I
30. It was her uncle; Budgy Niru a pot-bellied, middle aged, degrading man who earned a comfortable living by exploiting his niece and the other young women that lived in the building
31. Connections that are unused eventually atrophy, degrading the ability to
32. I watched myself cut into Allison’s father, stabbing him relentlessly, hurling insult after degrading insult
33. The shield was degrading due to a bad panel on the 4th level
34. I need only remind you of spam, viruses, spyware, emails with FW (forward, not the middle initial of someone preceded by the first letter of another word) in the title and racist, degrading jokes that you see over and over
35. I am not a student of war, as I find it repulsive, disgusting, demeaning, infantile, wasteful, degrading and horrible
36. It is devastating, horrible, degrading, humiliating, unnecessary, evil, illogical, disgusting, violent, reprehensible and stupid
37. Lord Ashburn only hoped that the young man did not become too emotional, as many would be prone to do under the circumstances; it was always highly embarrassing, not to mention morally degrading, to see a grown man break down over such an incident
38. “Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another
39. After graduation he decided to go off planet to get as far away from his problems as possible, which meant he had to get away from his father’s chastisement and his degrading comments on his ability to be a superior manservant
40. After all, what else were these tortures but an immense display of the most degrading and indescribable acts of
41. If there have been any degrading, limiting, or doubtful slights made against any products, companies, plans, programs, investments, individuals, institutions, organizations, systems or otherwise, are unintentional
42. But every so often, one of them – usually an Amazon – would turn on her, tell her it was degrading to think as she did, tell her that no-one should have the right to choose her sexual partners for her, least of all someone who was profiting from it at her expense
43. The peasant life was not for her and she was not really interested in learning anything as degrading as chores
44. This cycle is obviously degrading and leads to a very low self esteem
45. Now that the cynical Hindu politicians made the time-tested tactic of the Mohammedan despots their own – give the poor Musalmans more of Islam that keeps them calm, the franchise of the backward castes combined with the Muslim vote came to dominate the Indian politics, debilitating the country’s democratic vitality, hampering its social integration and degrading its citizens’ intellectual integrity
46. True nonviolence is salvaging of the Soul, for degrading the Soul is vi-
47. They would be caught again and taken to prison for further degrading punishment
48. genders of us had as sentenced all of the female gender to a position of degrading servitude because
49. They would be caught yet again and taken to prison for further degrading punishment
50. The doctors and scientists had said that their brains had begun degrading, faster than their bodies, and that was why they were craving brain matter in particular