Today ... They degenerated into ... MD: They degenerated, that's right.
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It's interesting, because I think it has degenerated conversations, degenerated advice, and people are confused almost continually.
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I'm not sure what happened but this degenerated very quickly.
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Some have degenerated into violent clashes between activists and police.
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It's not clear why because the disk is still degenerated.
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Ultimately, observers reported that Don degenerated and lost its center.
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That's what it degenerated into in a lot of neighborhoods.
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The Peter Strzok hearing degenerated into a circus, but never mind.
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Too often in Africa, multiparty politics has degenerated into tribal feuding.
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Many Thanksgiving dinners degenerated into yelling matches, and everybody hated Washington.
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But the deal swiftly degenerated into a legal and political debacle.
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Protests in Paris that day degenerated into violence; 283 people were arrested.
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Mr. Wehrey recalled meetings that degenerated into shouting matches over the name.
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It's a sign of how much the conversation between the leaders has degenerated.
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Their race for Senate has degenerated, Trump-style, into an ugly, racist fight.
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About half of middle-aged people with no back pain have degenerated disks.
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Disabling lower back pain from degenerated disks often improves on its own, eventually.
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The framers knew that throughout history republican governments ultimately degenerated into authoritarian regimes.
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By the end of 2011, the protests had degenerated into a sectarian civil war.
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It degenerated into, 'Can we just drink a beer while we're all waiting to die?
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The war then degenerated into what Joseph Conrad once called a vile scramble for loot.
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For Trotsky, the Soviet Union was a "degenerated" workers' state, still deserving defense by socialists.
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The predominantly two-party system had degenerated into a "one strong, many weak" party system.
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Clinton unleashed a few coughs between sentences, which soon degenerated into a full-on fit.
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Police said that while previous marches have started peacefully, they have increasingly degenerated into violence.
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It started as a food fight and degenerated into mean-spirited attacks and little substance.
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The Republican Party degenerated into a cult, converted cruelty into public policy and normalized racism.
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The solution sounds reasonable: Get rid of the degenerated disk and get rid of the pain.
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In the final years of the fifth century BC, as democracy degenerated, ostracism lost its usefulness.
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However, the would-be partnership degenerated into a feud that Mr Jeyenbekov has won—for now.
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The two senators did all those things, as a very aggressive debate degenerated into a shouting match.
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Instead, it has immediately degenerated into a food fight over who is in the pocket of whom.
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In places non-state militias are stronger than states, whereas state forces have degenerated into ragtag militias.
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Or maybe you know Dan W., a former factory worker, whose rheumatoid arthritis has degenerated over time.
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New York City's subway system has degenerated into a stupendous mess after years of neglect and maladministration.
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The global financial center has been slammed with four months of protests, which periodically degenerated into violence.
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That comes following months of civil unrest that have rocked the city and periodically degenerated into violence.
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The second season opened by hanging a neon sign over this technique, and from there it degenerated.
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Over the next eight years, her life would change significantly as the nerves controlling her bodily movements degenerated.
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Discs that had degenerated in my low back and neck had now herniated, causing nerve pain and numbness.
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Larbon was carrying his team, whose tactical approach by this point had degenerated into Just Shoot from Wherever.
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He suggested an X-ray and wasn't surprised by the black-and-white documentation of the degenerated joint.
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The London riots in 2011 started out as a peaceful demonstration that degenerated into violence, fuelled by social media.
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Today, our politics has degenerated from such historic accomplishments in the national interest to tribalism and therefore often mindlessness.
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While politics in Washington has degenerated into dysfunctional hyper-partisanship, it's increasingly our local communities that give us hope.
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And at least half of patients in pain who have a fusion for a degenerated disk remain in pain.
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Unlike, say, a factory worker who breaks an arm, many football players had multiple injuries that degenerated over time.
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This exhibition, titled "Degenerated Art," will be one of two simultaneous displays of selected works from the Gurlitt collection.
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Because it had not caused her pain, she had not noticed anything was amiss until it was severely degenerated.
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A telecoms joint-venture with NTT DoCoMo degenerated into an unseemly legal battle that looks likely to cost Tata $1.17bn.
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Relations between Turkey and the EU democracies have degenerated further in the run-up to Germany's election on September 24th.
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Obama's hesitation is one of the reasons why a pro-democracy uprising in Syria degenerated into a brutal civil war.
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Her boss, Wafula Chebukati, said that the commission had degenerated into warring factions and that candidates were intimidating his staff.
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Social discussions have degenerated into coarse polemics online because of the lack of space for more nuanced and incisive conversations.
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But in Burleigh, home to the state capital of Bismarck, the decision degenerated into jeering, insults and heated online posts.
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Iran's military airlift to Syria began in 22019, shortly after Syria's Arab spring degenerated into a full-fledged civil war.
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Trump long ago gave up on trying to match his words to the truth, and his speech has degenerated accordingly.
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The game has since degenerated into a digital cemetary where you can meet a few NPCs, but no actual live characters.
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"Popular country has degenerated into this commercialized trash of pitch correction and starlings… it doesn't sell in Austin," O'Donnell told me.
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The repressive family despotism into which Nicaragua has degenerated under Mr Ortega and his wife, Rosario Murillo, is almost as nasty.
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After the Iraq War degenerated into a bloody insurgency, George W. Bush was relentlessly attacked over his intellect and leadership skills.
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Over the past ten days Mr Trump made more headlines than ever as his rallies degenerated into increasingly violent, primeval events.
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Instead, well before 1977, the job had degenerated into one akin to herding pussycats clamoring over an evaporating saucer of milk.
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As protests have degenerated into street battles, tear-gas, petrol bombs and vandalism have made some parts of town physically hazardous.
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The city has been plagued by months of protests that have periodically degenerated into violence, with seemingly no resolution in sight.
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Democracy has degenerated into a kind of legal perpetual-motion machine, taking upwards of a decade to approve vital infrastructure projects.
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Under her tenure, briefings almost always started late, lasted only an average 15-20 minutes, and quickly degenerated into all-out warfare.
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"The situation in the US has degenerated significantly in the last few years, while in Canada it's actually improved," he told Motherboard.
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Holcomb's vision degenerated to the point that he was convinced that his bobsled career was ending, and his mood quickly turned bleak.
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The sector has taken a hit amid protracted protests in the city that have lasted for months and periodically degenerated into violence.
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Sanders has been accused by Trump of orchestrating protests at the latter's rallies that have degenerated into clashes with the billionaire businessman's supporters.
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The camp in Johannesburg where they were settled after arriving in the 1980s has degenerated into squalor and discrimination is pervasive and brutal.
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Miller earlier had defended Trump during the appearance, which quickly degenerated as Miller criticized CNN for its coverage of the Trump White House.
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The shots that Brunson went for on Whittaker's hips were all no hopers because the bout had degenerated into running across the cage.
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A democracy once identified with great names such as Mohandas Gandhi has degenerated into Trumpland — an inferno of systemic brutishness, imbecility and mendacity.
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Pushing and shoving quickly degenerated into outright violence, and the professor who moderated the event, Allison Stanger, was injured and taken to a hospital.
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Now it has degenerated into a figure of speech meant to point to an ever-shifting, indeed arbitrary, boundary between ''war'' and ''not war.
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The latest "yellow vest" marches began peacefully but degenerated in the afternoon as protesters threw missiles at riot police blocking bridges over the Seine.
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Billed as a merger of equals, it degenerated into a battle over control between Luxottica's founder Leonardo Del Vecchio and Essilor's chief Hubert Sagnieres.
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In the hands of a lesser writer, this litany of woe might have degenerated into one of the dry treatises on which he draws.
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An evening known for sharp humor that often goes right up to the line but rarely crosses it quickly degenerated into an uncomfortable experience.
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The latest "yellow vest" marches began peacefully but degenerated on Saturday afternoon as protesters threw missiles at riot police blocking bridges over the Seine.
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Prosecutors are investigating some 1,089 allegations of abuse, including torture, rape and beatings by security forces during demonstrations that have often degenerated into riots.
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Founded in the 1990s as a separatist group, Abu Sayyaf has, in recent years, degenerated into a criminal organization specializing in bombings and kidnappings.
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The initially peaceful protests have degenerated into encounters between baton-wielding riot police and activists, leading to scores of injuries and about 1,300 arrests.
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Beryl, which had weakened to a tropical storm from a hurricane on Saturday, degenerated on Sunday into an open wave, according to the NHC.
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Since the June summit, however, the relationship between the two governments have degenerated as Pyongyang has been reluctant to surrender the country's nuclear capabilities.
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What could have been a moment for a thoughtful national discussion about abuse of power, consent and fairness degenerated into yet another political sideshow.
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Machar was President Salva Kiir's deputy until 2013, when a political disagreement between them degenerated into a war that has ravaged South Sudan ever since.
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The battle degenerated into hand-to-hand fighting, with the ARVN perimeter shrinking to a few small buildings before a relief force finally broke through.
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The fact that a European plan to increase military spending — acceding to a demand from Mr. Trump — has degenerated into acrimony only emphasizes the split.
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The vast majority of fusion procedures are performed on patients with one or more degenerated disks, disks that are worn out, dehydrated, stiff and friable.
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In North Korea, the coup that took down the Kim dynasty has degenerated into all-out civil war, with a looming threat of nuclear action.
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In the port the FARC's militias have degenerated into sicarios (guns for hire) and are in the process of switching to the Urabeños, a criminal gang.
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Last weekend, two initially peaceful protests degenerated into running skirmishes between baton-wielding police and activists, resulting in scores of injuries and more than 40 arrests.
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"I've been through three bankruptcies with Mr. Trump," she said, recalling how the fast years of gambling growth here degenerated into a crushing excess of casinos.
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At the same time, he could also be a sign that things have degenerated to such a point that the system just isn't salvageable any longer.
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Hours earlier, the committee's debate over the legislation had degenerated into a brawl between members of the APK and the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP).
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What were once lively new ideas have degenerated into tired orthodoxies, while vital areas of the past, such as constitutional and military affairs, are all but ignored.
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This is especially true for Sam and Nathan, whose condition has degenerated over decades, to the point that they're virtually unable to leave their small shared room.
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Two initially peaceful protests last weekend degenerated into running skirmishes between baton-wielding riot police and activists, resulting in scores of injuries and more than 40 arrests.
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As some train and bus services resumed, tens of thousands of demonstrators fanned out across several districts, where protests again degenerated into running clashes with riot police.
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Last weekend two initially peaceful protests degenerated into running skirmishes between baton-wielding riot police and activists, resulting in scores of injuries and more than 40 arrests.
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Obviously the table was there all along, but the newfound shock of its existence has degenerated the conversation back to a "gender war" between man and woman.
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But the country is still haunted by the two months of violence that followed a disputed presidential poll in 2007, when political protests degenerated into ethnic bloodletting.
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A now withdrawn extradition bill has sparked protests that have occasionally degenerated into violence, creating Hong Kong's worst social unrest in decades and hurting the city's economy.
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Efforts to persuade its soldiers to defect degenerated into clashes and mayhem between anti-Maduro protesters and Venezuelan security forces along the borders with Colombia and Brazil.
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With Congress out of town until next year and Trump at his Florida resort, the battle over impeachment degenerated into a series of transcontinental tweets and soundbites.
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Hong Kong Police Commissioner Stephen Lo said what began as a peaceful gathering on Wednesday had degenerated into a riot with protesters "acting violently in an organized manner".
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"Fox has degenerated from providing a legitimate and much-needed outlet for conservative voices to a mere propaganda machine for a destructive and ethically ruinous administration," he wrote.
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VIOLENCE Last weekend two initially peaceful protests degenerated into running skirmishes between baton-wielding riot police and activists, resulting in scores of injuries and more than 40 arrests.
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Protesters carrying Romanian, European Union and other flags rallied Saturday outside government offices in Bucharest, the capital, the same place where the protest Friday had degenerated into violence.
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Two initially peaceful protests at the weekend degenerated into running skirmishes between baton-wielding riot police and activists, one in a suburban shopping mall crowded with Sunday shoppers.
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On Monday night, that process degenerated into a mess that even the Des Moines Register, the state's largest paper, called "a debacle, period" in a scathing editorial Thursday.
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In the company's wake, rap-album art has in large part degenerated into a kind of solemn professionalism, a zone overcrowded with nostalgia and self-serious monochromatic portraits.
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Yet in the eyes of the world, India maintained its exceptional status for decades, as many promising postcolonial experiments with democracy degenerated into authoritarianism, if not military rule.
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In my view, Fox has degenerated from providing a legitimate and much-needed outlet for conservative voices to a mere propaganda machine for a destructive and ethically ruinous administration.
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Though the cyclone has degenerated into a storm, at least 52,000 homes in the Australian region remain without power and flood evacuation orders have been issued in some cases.
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"It was sad, because something lovely became vulgar, crass and horrible, then degenerated," said Chris Perkins, an Englishman who ran a guesthouse in Vang Vieng from 2010 to 23.
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The Straight Talk Express, as his bus was named in both his presidential campaigns, has degenerated a decade later into Trump's "tell-it-like-it-is" Fox News spectacular.
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Prison had aged him rapidly: Even though he was only in his late 30s, his short-term memory was shot, his eyesight had degenerated and he suffered from arthritis.
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Many initially peaceful protests in the past three months have degenerated into encounters between baton-wielding riot police and activists, leading to scores of injuries and about 1,300 arrests.
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" THE INSPIRATION "I wanted to make a sorrowful family tragedy that degenerated into a nightmare in the way that life can feel like a nightmare when things fall apart.
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This quickly degenerated into wider violence, with Hindu residents accusing Muslims of attacking Hindu statues and Muslim residents expressing fear that a Hindu mob was forming to get them.
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Venezuela's opposition, led by Juan Guaidó, had an ambitious plan to peacefully import foreign aid in truck convoys, but it degenerated into deadly skirmishes Saturday along the country's borders.
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It will come from repentant liberals and conservatives who want to understand why the great intellectual traditions that they once embraced degenerated so rapidly over the past couple of decades.
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With hardly a policy disagreement to separate the three candidates, the contest has degenerated into vicious mud-slinging, mirroring the nationwide schism between Trumpists and traditionalists in the Republican Party.
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In the aftermath of the 2009 military coup that ousted its democratically elected president, Manuel Zelaya, Honduras has degenerated into a quagmire of government corruption, rampant criminality and gang violence.
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It was not until after Guzman's capture in February 2014 - he would break out of prison in July 2015 and was recaptured this January - that the split degenerated into war.
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Instead, the entire team shrank from the moment, and the beautiful basketball we've come to expect from San Antonio degenerated into a series of uninspiring LaMarcus Aldridge mid-range jumpers.
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"I really lament the fact the organization founded by Tiananmen Square leaders and intellectuals has degenerated to such a miserable state," said Mr. Chen, the University of Western Australia professor.
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That has "degenerated now into a tit-for-tat tariff exchange, in which, it seems that the personalities and the staying powers of the leaders are more important," he added.
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A meeting last July to introduce a hotline in Wuxi near Shanghai reportedly degenerated into a squabble between a deputy mayor and district councillors who argued that it would waste money.
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This is about the time pundit flacks begin invoking the shibboleth of "transparency," an impossibility given that the landscape has degenerated into warring fiefdoms that resemble "Game of Thrones," dragons included.
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The question of whether to enact a shelter-in-place edict degenerated into a semantics debate with Mayor Bill de Blasio, resurfacing a petty feud between the two New York Democrats.
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"As a result of that, over the years, things like the Reid technique have degenerated into really going off the rails in terms of how they're being implemented," Dr. Stinson said.
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"In my view, Fox has degenerated from providing a legitimate and much-needed outlet for conservative voices to a mere propaganda machine for a destructive and ethically ruinous administration," Peters continued.
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What began as peaceful protests in Cameroon's southwestern Anglophone region in 2017 have degenerated into near daily violence between the forces of Cameroon's mostly French-speaking government and several separatist groups.
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As the ranking Democrat on a committee that has degenerated to dog-eat-dog partisanship and conspiracy-mongering under Devin Nunes, Mr Schiff has been much provoked in the past 18 months.
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South Sudan was plunged into civil war in 2013, two years after gaining independence, after political disagreements between President Salva Kiir and his then deputy, Riek Machar, degenerated into a military confrontation.
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A labor reform bill introduced by Mr. Hollande's government in March has spawned crippling strikes and a series of street protests that have degenerated into violent clashes between demonstrators and police officers.
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Prosecutors are investigating more than 800 allegations of abuse, including torture, rape and beatings by security forces during demonstrations over inequality and the cost of living that have often degenerated into riots.
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ALMATY (Reuters) - The leaders of Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan pledged on Monday to improve relations, after ties between the two former Soviet republics degenerated into a trade war under the previous Kyrgyz leadership.
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General Fang's "ideals and convictions had been shaken, he abandoned the mission of the party and degenerated politically, becoming economically rapacious," said an editorial published in the Liberation Army Daily on Wednesday.
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It degenerated, instead, into a howl against Republican fascism and a post-Protestant sermon about how liberal America can build the true and only heaven, the real shining city on the hill.
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The rare intrusion — the last such attack on a government building by protesters was in 1999 — took place on a day of protests throughout France that started peacefully but degenerated into violence.
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Abandoned warehouses lined the desolate streets of a once-thriving neighborhood that had been known as Little San Juan, but had long since degenerated into a shell of a neighborhood by the 1980s.
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" Peters continued by saying he thought that Fox News "degenerated from providing a legitimate and much-needed outlet for conservative voices to a mere propaganda machine for a destructive and ethically ruinous administration.
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Zayya Lwin, 27, is one of 17 organizers of the anti-war protest which on Saturday degenerated into scuffles and fistfights, raising fresh concerns about freedom of speech in the Southeast Asian nation.
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But many in Singapore were shaken when, in December 2013, a traffic accident in the part of town known as Little India degenerated into a riot, as South Asian migrants vented their frustrations.
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And on Thursday, CNN kicks off "The History of Comedy," an eight-part docu-series full of illuminating perspectives on how far comedy has evolved — or, some might say, degenerated — over the decades.
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In her slashing diagnosis, the dark-maned, fashionably bespectacled academic describes how Silicon Valley&aposs once-utopian promises degenerated into the like button and that shoe advertisement that follows you around the internet.
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Colourful tents, art installations and music created an almost carnival atmosphere at times, in stark contrast to the current anti-government protests that have increasingly degenerated into running battles between activists and police.
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The three Democrats said Trump appeared unhinged by a House vote condemning the Syria withdrawal, and the meeting quickly degenerated into a name-calling session led by the president, according to the Democrats.
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Colorful tents, art installations and music created an almost carnival atmosphere at times, in stark contrast to the current anti-government protests that have increasingly degenerated into running battles between activists and police.
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Trouble erupted as a march near a footbridge to Colombia degenerated into running battles between young protesters and security forces, underscoring the risks Mr. Maduro's adversaries are taking in their campaign against him.
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Since mid-June the protests have escalated and become more frequent, at times shutting government offices, blocking roads and disrupting business as some of the demonstrations degenerated into violent clashes between activists and police.
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YANGON (Reuters) - Myanmar police said on Monday they would charge 17 organizers of an anti-war protest on the weekend that degenerated into scuffles and fistfights, and raised new concern about freedom of speech.
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I don't think it necessarily reveals that the whole culture is totally bankrupt, or conservatism is deeply, fatally flawed, or we've degenerated into just a celebrity culture where anything goes, or we're post-truth.
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The offering also came at a time when business sentiment in Hong Kong has taken a hit amid ongoing pro-democracy protests that have rocked the city for months and periodically degenerated into violence.
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South Sudan has been in a state of civil war since 2013, two years after its founding, after political disagreements between President Salva Kiir and his then deputy, Riek Machar, degenerated into a military confrontation.
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Now that the uprisings have either been beaten down or degenerated into murderous civil war (except in Tunisia), the lot of young Arabs is even worse: they face more political repression and worse job prospects.
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Frayed relations with Ankara While some world leaders are quietly making connections with other leaders and diplomats, other are becoming increasingly disaffected with the US. Turkey's relationship with the US has degenerated in recent years.
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The Grand Old Party of Lincoln and Reagan, he says, who were both subject to assassination attempts, has degenerated into the party of Donald Trump, the candidate who seems to encourage the assassination of others.
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The Senate hearing meant to find the truth about Christine Blasey Ford's accusation that President Donald Trump's nominee assaulted her in the 1980s degenerated into one of the most distasteful political spectacles in many years.
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Many peaceful protests have degenerated into running battles between black-clad protesters and police, who have responded with tear gas, water cannon, rubber bullets, bean bag rounds and several live rounds fired into the air.
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I spend a lot of time sometimes on TV talking about all kinds of tech issues and there's nothing wrong with television, but some of the discussions nationally and locally have degenerated into just screamfests.
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Is it sad that this dish is the most iconic from my home, that the proud and beautiful tradition of Kyoto's temples has degenerated into this sloppy, goopy mess, served with a side of ketchup?
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Like all head-to-head match-ups in modern politics, the Democratic primary race between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders has degenerated into an insufferable Twitter feud over who has the greater claim to ideological purity.
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I've been wanting to write about Cocky-gate for some time now but the story – a row between self-published authors that degenerated into ridiculousness – seems finally over and perhaps we can all get some perspective.
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A political row between Kiir and Machar degenerated in 2013 into a war that has killed tens of thousands, forced a quarter of the population to flee their homes and wrecked the country's oil-dependent economy.
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Last week, his long-fractured relationship with the United States Olympic Committee further degenerated when he publicly criticized a selection process that denied him a chance to carry the flag at the opening ceremony on Friday.
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Have we really degenerated into a nation so lacking in compassion and mercy that those of us who have more than we need are no longer willing to extend a hand to those who don't have enough?
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Using economic powers to bend the media to your will is a hallmark of authoritarian states, and reflects the many different ways that Israeli democracy has degenerated since Netanyahu's current time in office began way back in 2009.
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Early on Monday, Hong Kong embarked on a massive clean-up after a largely peaceful protest degenerated into violence across districts on the Kowloon peninsula, where protesters torched stores and sprayed grafitti on roads, amid skirmishes with police.
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U.S. involvement has degenerated into a series of spasmodic and at best tactical moves and at worst unfocused rage against notional threats even as we resolutely fail to deal with the actual threats to our position and influence.
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The southwestern city of Deraa is seen by the opposition as the cradle of the 2011 uprising that began as a peaceful protest movement against Assad's authoritarian rule but has spread across the country and degenerated into civil war.
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The southwestern city of Deraa is seen by the opposition as the cradle of the 2011 uprising that began as a peaceful protest movement against Assad's authoritarian rule but has spread across the country and degenerated into civil war.
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DOUGLAS, Isle of Man — The Isle of Man's governing body, the Tynwald, was founded by Viking settlers and first gained notoriety in 1237 when a gathering degenerated into a pitched battle between two factions that left three men dead.
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Back in the 1980s and 1990s, a typical gathering of leftists consisted of seven weirdos meeting in a ramshackle space, often fighting ancient battles about whether the USSR was a failed state capitalist experiment or a degenerated workers' state.
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The president's decision ended a partnership that soured almost from the start of the administration and degenerated into one of the most acrimonious public standoffs between a commander in chief and a senior cabinet member in modern American history.
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Instead, he has spent much of his post-"Soldiers" career arguing against the very tenets of historical memory: what started out as a legitimate campaign for reparative justice, Cercas feels, soon degenerated into a pageant of sanctimony and opportunism.
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Given this state of affairs, it's the FBI investigation that has the most promise to settle the debate on whether Kavanaugh should be confirmed after what most voters see as a process that has degenerated into a national disgrace.
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Mathews Phosa, a member of the ANC executive who is himself a candidate for the presidency, points to the Eastern Cape provincial ANC conference in September, which degenerated into a chair-throwing fest: "It will be worse than that," he says.
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Today, left-wing political practice seems to have degenerated into a fatuous contest of who can appear the most "woke," measured in terms of how many "microaggressions" one can identify and how easily triggered one is at the smallest perceived offense.
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Conservative opposition to the Affordable Care Act degenerated into fantastically unprincipled nonsense almost as soon as it became a Republican organizing principle, but it worked in that capacity for so long because there was something real at the heart of it.
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In Paris, the street marches began peacefully but degenerated when some protesters threw punches at baton-wielding officers, torched electric scooters and garbage bins along the Left Bank's upscale Boulevard Saint Germain and set cars ablaze near the Champs Elysees.
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In February, an ambitious plan by the opposition, led by Mr. Guaidó, to bring humanitarian aid into Venezuela from neighboring countries degenerated into bloody skirmishes as the trucks ran into blockades set up by security forces loyal to Mr. Maduro.
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What is already clear is that, as Mr. Trump's aides and family members tried over 48 hours to manage one of the most consequential crises of the young administration, the situation quickly degenerated into something of a circular firing squad.
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When, as more prudent Japanese officials had feared, the war degenerated into an unwinnable competition against overwhelming American industrial power, the militaristic leadership kept trying and failing to score one decisive battlefield victory — not at Saipan, nor Luzon, nor Leyte.
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Well, so were the audience members for that 1971 donnybrook — er, panel discussion — which lasted three and a half hours and quickly degenerated into name-calling, catcalling and (on Johnston's part) a make-out session with members of the audience.
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Tom Farrey, executive director of the Aspen Institute's Sports & Society Program, said the sports achievement disparity between wealthy suburban public schools and their urban counterparts has degenerated into "a competitive gap that is similar to the income gap" in the nation.
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These once-grand theaters, where Flo Ziegfeld and George M. Cohan had dazzled the top-hatted limousine trade, had degenerated into a seedy lineup of triple-X and martial-arts movie houses, a shadow of Broadway's fabled Great White Way.
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Though the Dreamers will probably be saved eventually—because around 85% of Americans want them to be—the stand-off has degenerated into an ugly row over Mr Trump's reference to Haiti and African countries, at a bipartisan meeting on immigration, as "shitholes".
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The explosion, which came as the central city of Ghazni struggles to recover from five days of intense fighting between the Taliban and government forces, underlined how badly security in Afghanistan has degenerated, some two months before parliamentary elections scheduled for October.
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In early 2016, a peaceful protest we organized to preserve the annual Lunar New Year night market in Mongkok (which the government had said should be suspended) degenerated after the surprise appearance and provocations of hundreds of police officers in riot gear.
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I don't even know what to say about this next part, because—no matter how many times I have read it—I can't seem to make it make sense in my brain, which, at this point, has degenerated into a pile of mush.
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Though the previous biennial did feature that kind of work, and though the political situation has significantly degenerated since then, this biennial, as Pérez-Barreiro has indicated in an interview with Hyperallergic, was curated to appeal to our sensual and feeling selves.
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A pair of sociologists who spent time in some Midwestern nursing homes in the early nineteen-seventies discovered that reality-orientation training had degenerated into farce: Aide [pointing to the weather on the R.O. board, which reads "raining"]: What's the weather like today, Emma?
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At a recent employee Q. and A. I did at YouTube, for example, one staffer told me that their jobs used to be about wrangling cat videos and now they had degenerated into a daily hell of ethics debates about the fate of humanity.
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CÚCUTA, Colombia — An ambitious plan by Venezuela's opposition to peacefully import foreign aid in truck convoys degenerated into deadly skirmishes Saturday along the impoverished country's borders, with a smattering of supplies getting through but most of it blocked by armed loyalists of President Nicolás Maduro.
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Dean's appearance Monday quickly degenerated into the typical partisan circus often seen in House hearings as Democrats sought to draw out parallels between Nixon and Trump and the President's Republican allies blasted Dean as biased and some members even seemed intent on relitigating the Watergate scandal.
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New York City's subway system has finally degenerated into a such a pile of garbage that Governor Andrew Cuomo stepped in Thursday to declare it's now in a "state of emergency," announcing he'd allocate $1 billion in state funds to the failing system, CBS New York reports.
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In a grim assessment of the broader climate in France, Valls said terrorists would inevitably strike again, that police were also working overtime to avert fan violence during a month-long European soccer championship and that the anti-reform protests had now degenerated into "unbearable violence".
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"In my view, Fox has degenerated from providing a legitimate and much-needed outlet for conservative voices to a mere propaganda machine for a destructive and ethically ruinous administration," Colonel Peters wrote in his message, a copy of which was obtained by The New York Times.
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Mr. Pence flew to Colombia two days after an American-backed effort to send convoys of humanitarian aid into Venezuela and persuade its soldiers to defect degenerated into clashes and mayhem between anti-Maduro protesters and Venezuelan security forces along the borders with Colombia and Brazil.
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MPs knew that a contest between Mr Johnson and Mr Gove could easily have degenerated into the modern equivalent of the contest between Polynices and Eteocles who murdered each other in their determination to rule over Thebes (Mr Johnson, who read classics at Oxford, is fond of classical references).
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A hearing starring Peter Strzok, the FBI agent who presided over the start of the Russia probe, degenerated Thursday into a theatrical display of sanctimony, mock outrage, all-out partisan bickering and character assassination as grandstanding members on both sides of the aisle played to the TV cameras.
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Catalonia's defiant bid to hold a referendum on independence from Spain degenerated into ugly scenes of mayhem on Sunday, with more than 800 people injured as riot police attacked peaceful protesters and unarmed civilians gathered to cast their ballots in a vote the government had banned as unconstitutional.
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The "casseurs," violent vandals who often attach themselves to strikes or protests in France, joined in, until Saturday's eruption, when a peaceful march degenerated into a riot of flaming cars, water cannons, tear gas and destruction at the Arc de Triomphe and the broad boulevards radiating from it.
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With the GOP embroiled in a low-level discussion that has even degenerated into comparing the photographs of spouses and the size of a candidate's hands, the Democrats have appeared as the adults in the room (even if not as much fun to watch) with a series of debates over policy.
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A total 13,000 had marched nationwide last Saturday, compared with 41,000 the week before and 51,400 the week before that - well down on the more than 300,000 who marched at the start of the movement in November, in a protest which degenerated into violent clashes with police in subsequent weeks.
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Iranians by and large were supportive of any American efforts that promised to increase their access to the international community, to improve their economy, and to resume Iran's status as a more normal state rather than the pariah status that it had degenerated to under the leadership of former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
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Minus one trip to the finals with AI, the Sixers have been irrelevant for decades, the Flyers haven t brought home a Cup since the 1970 s, the Phillies shone bright for 5 years and quickly degenerated into a slow burning garbage fire, and the Eagles have never won a Super Bowl.
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Last Saturday there had been 46,600 marchers, including 13,800 in Paris, compared with 41,000 the week before and 51,400 the week before that - well down on the more than 300,000 who marched at the start of the movement in November in a protest which degenerated into clashes with police in subsequent weeks.
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Party leaders were up in arms following the Judiciary Committee's September hearing with Corey LewandowskiCorey R. LewandowskiKey takeaways from first public impeachment hearing Democrats face make-or-break moment on impeachment The Hill's 6900:2628 Report: Trump demands Bidens testify MORE, Trump's former campaign manager, which quickly degenerated into a partisan food fight.
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Last Saturday there had been 323,600 marchers, including 5,800 in Paris, compared with 41,000 the week before and 51,400 the week before that - well down on the more than 300,000 who marched at the start of the movement in November in a protest which degenerated into clashes with police in subsequent weeks.
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He faltered during this tenure when he gave a news briefing on the location of the G-7 — an appearance that degenerated into a session all about the Ukraine scandal, providing fodder for Democrats to say the White House tried to engage in a quid pro quo with Ukrainian leaders over military aid.
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During one conference call at an investment bank last week, discussion on whether the deal represented a major opportunity or a fools' errand degenerated into a shouting match, according to one of the bankers who provided the details on condition that neither he nor the bank, which decided not to pursue a role, are disclosed.
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A spokesman for President Rodrigo Duterte said on Tuesday that the deaths had only strengthened the government's resolve to crush Abu Sayyaf, which was founded in the early 1990s to fight for an independent Islamic state in the southern Philippines but which in more recent years has degenerated into a kidnap-for-ransom gang known to behead captives.
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The government's use of a colonial-era law was designed to keep people off the streets, but it had the opposite effect as mass protests in their 18th week once again degenerated into violence, as protesters trashed businesses linked to China, police deployed tear gas and rubber bullets, and a 14-year-old boy was shot.
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Paris (CNN)The French presidential campaign, watched across Europe and across the Atlantic for its potential impact on the future of a united continent, went screaming into its final 48 hours on the heels of a bitter, 703-minute, nationally-televised debate that at times degenerated into a verbal cage-match, leaving both sides claiming victory and the nation exhausted.
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Fang Fenghui is suspected of giving and taking bribes, a state-run news outlet said, adding that he "abandoned the mission of the party and degenerated politically, becoming economically rapacious," And the Times Magazine explores the mystery of Guo Wengui, above, the exiled billionaire whistle-blower who from a Central Park penthouse has exposed a phenomenal web of corruption in China's ruling elite — if, that is, he's telling the truth.
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Ron JohnsonRonald (Ron) Harold JohnsonTrump faces growing GOP revolt on Syria Murkowski warns against rushing to conclusions on Trump impeachment Trump fires back on impeachment MORE (R-Wis.) degenerated into a shouting match with anchor Chuck ToddCharles (Chuck) David ToddThe Memo: GOP discontent deepens on Trump impeachment messaging Former Reagan official rips Republicans for backing Trump: 'It's like the invasion of the body snatchers' Brennan: Republican senators 'running scared' of president because he 'comes after them with a vengeance' MORE.
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