Sentences with phrase «debased through»

«Competency» seems to be a word whose original meaning is gradually being debased through its increasingly popular use.

Attempting to maintain support among the very teachers it is supposed to represent — and looking to show that it cares about elevating the teaching profession it debases through its defense of quality - blind seniority - based privileges and reverse - seniority layoff rules — the NEA gave $ 73,500 to the National Network of State Teachers of the Year; that the selection of teachers of the year is usually more of a popularity contest than one based on objective measures of teacher performance is often conveniently ignored by all but the most thoughtful of observers, and thus, serves as a good way to spend union funds.

Not exact matches

The revealed truth is set down once and for all in a book or revealed through prophets or otherwise handed down from the past; all the truth we need is already there; we preserve it, interpret it and see that it is not debased or corrupted.

This «othering» takes various facets, including the «othering» through difference, difference in terms of local and external culture, difference in terms of acceptable and unacceptable food and drink, and difference in terms of debased sexual attitudes.

Defendant using his influence, wealth and power lured plaintiff into a relationship and tried spoiling, debase and corrupting the mind of plaintiff by sending plaintiff nude pictures, sex video and masturbating video through Skype, Whatsapp and asked plaintiff to do same.

But through the layerings of sentimentality, irony, burlesque, and wordplay, in his own idiosyncratic way Rudolph critiques the debased civics and incoherent politics of the Clinton era, where everybody is on the make and has sex on the brain.

The main question here is the demise of «Bretton Woods II» where the rest of the world uses the US Dollar as the main reserve currency, while the US continues to debase the dollar through the issuance of more dollar claims.

Central Banks around the world are bound and determined — either through actions or words to debase their currency.

In her gnarly Petzel show (open through this Saturday), Pensato gives us a rogues» gallery of raving, debased, pop - eyed beings — a pale fright - mask Homer Simpson, a psychotic - looking Felix the Cat, a slaphappy Daisy Duck, South Park's Stan Marsh looking like a Warlock out of H. G. Wells's The Time Machine.