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Any time you can degrade or take away the top leadership of an organization, it's a positive step forward.
Degrade and ultimately destroy ISIL
Whoever degrades another degrades me.
No one can degrade us except ourselves.
All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.
The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
Civilization degrades the many to exalt the few.
Civilization degrades many in order to exalt the few.
I don't like to degrade women, but I like pornography.
It is not true that sex degrades women... if it is any good.
I'm not going to degrade women, and that's very anti-hip-hop.
Servitude degrades people to such a point that they come to like it.
A religion can no more afford to degrade its Devil than to degrade its God.
Some comics are made to be displayed digitally, and it doesn't degrade them.
... one pets what one degrades; and one has to support what one has enfeebled
AT&T will not block access to the public Internet or degrade service, period.
When the will loves anything that is below it in dignity, it degrades itself.
My meaning is, that no man can expect his children to respect what he degrades.
To get rid of predestination we have been willing to degrade our God into a godling.
A union of government and religion tends to destroy government and degrade religion.
If we have power to degrade an entire society, then we also have the power to uplift it.
It's slanderous to report things I didn't say, to degrade my reputation, it's sickening to me.
Americans, at our best, stand up to bullies and fight those who seek to demean and degrade others.
The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.
It is okay not to like someone, but it is never okay to try and degrade, humiliate, or dehumanize them.
The Pythagoreans degrade impious men into brutes and, if one is to believe Empedocles, even into plants.
We are naturally moral beings, but our environments can enhance - or, sadly, degrade - this innate moral sense.
If I have to degrade myself or do something that I'm not willing to do as a Christian to get something, I'm just not willing to do it.
Media corporations have a civic responsibility not only to prevent fraud and financial abuse, but also to not corrupt or degrade our culture.
Torture can destroy the social fabric of communities, degrade a society's institutions, and undermine the integrity of its political systems.
I mean, if you degrade someone, you isolate them, you control them, you call them names, you demean them. That's a horrible existence for people.
There are those women who degrade the name of women, and there are men who degrade the name of women. But for the most part, we can't live without them.
The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose.
So much of the habitat destruction and pollution is based on the simple principle that we somehow have been given free license over other species to degrade the planet.
The Italian culture and values have significantly shaped who I am, and I would never intentionally demean or degrade the very culture that has been so integral to my life.
No matter how many plots we uncover and disrupt, no matter how many terrorist organizations we degrade or destroy, another individual or group will rise to take their place.
A big ethical question is what happens after people stop using the device. Does it degrade the environment? Could it have been designed so it would actually be good for the environment?
If you take a perfectly well-adjusted normal person of any age from anywhere in the country and stick them in L.A., within about a week I do believe that a lot of their values and morals will start to degrade.
Psychoanalysis is a terribly efficient instrument, and because it is more and more a prestigious instrument, we run the risk of using it with a purpose for which it was not made for, and in this way we may degrade it.
People will constantly bring up my past and throw it in my face, but the Creator of the Universe doesn't. If you ask forgiveness from Him, then it's gone forever. The past is never brought up to shame you or degrade you.
Nature is solving all sorts of problems that we throw at her - how to degrade plastic bottles, how to degrade pesticides and herbicides and antibiotics. She creates new enzymes in response to that all the time, in real time.
All you have to do is respect me. Use the right words. If you don't consider me a woman, then use trans woman. Whatever works for you. But don't try to use something that's a slur or something that's meant to degrade who we are.
Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.
An elite class that is free to operate without limits - whether limits imposed by the rule of law or fear of the responses from those harmed by their behavior - is an elite class that will plunder, degrade, and cheat at will, and act endlessly to fortify its own power.
A feminist is a person who wants equal things for men and women, and I definitely believe in that. This doesn't mean I will degrade anyone. In our house, I want my mother and father to have equal importance and that's the only way to bring up a socially responsible child.
This enzyme, called telomerase, slows the rate at which telomeres degrade, and research indicates that healthy people with longer telomeres have less risk of developing the common illnesses of aging - like heart disease, diabetes, and cancer, which are three big killers today.
Some global hazards are insidious. They stem from pressure on energy supplies, food, water and other natural resources. And they will be aggravated as the population rises to a projected nine billion by mid-century, and by the effects of climate change. An 'ecological shock' could irreversibly degrade our environment.
I'm saying that people who are enmeshed in situations of subjugation and have to live, have to find ways to project their dignity as human beings - in spite of all the efforts of those around them to degrade them - I'm saying that this music is the manifestation of the dignity in the life that has always been present.
If you want to make information stick, it's best to learn it, go away from it for a while, come back to it later, leave it behind again, and once again return to it - to engage with it deeply across time. Our memories naturally degrade, but each time you return to a memory, you reactivate its neural network and help to lock it in.
Some ISPs are blocking all BitTorrent traffic, because BitTorrent can be used to share files in a piratical way. Hollywood lobbying groups are trying to pass laws which would force ISPs to block or degrade BitTorrent traffic, too. Personally, I think this is like closing down freeways because a bank robber could use them to get away.
