Sentences with phrase «debased when»

It argues that schooling, medicine and even baseball are debased when they are understood in terms of profit - making.

Religion is debased when clergy accept the role of chaplain - cheerleader for competing political teams.

All humanity is debased when injustice is practiced on any fellow human being.

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Electronic payment systems are convenient, fast and easy, but when a government imposes this decision on you, your economic liberty is debased.

Ever since Bernanke came in with his, «Enrich thy neighbour» and we have rotating debasement that is when we stop debasing, the ECB, and the BoJ.

But our language is being debased in the most profound sense when it loses the ability to discern and describe the lineaments of our moral lives.

Lust becomes, therefore, the more debasing and the more sinful when what is intended for good is perverted to selfish and sensual indulgence.

When you choose the seat of judgment over the seat of compassion and grace, you debase the whole movement.

Just when you thought he couldn't get any lower, Carl once again debased himself and the entire political process.»

Really, there's no need, when every night on prime - time television we can find experiments involving similarly «extreme social situations» being carried out on real human beings — subjects willing to submit to the most debasing forms of public humiliation Hollywood executives can dream up.

A few days later, Bobby sees an opportunity to purchase the coveted bike himself when the old man with failing eyesight offers to pay Bobby a dollar a day for reading the newspaper out loud and watching for «Low Men» — a debased pack of strangers Ted believes are hounding him.

When you critique a movie you are obviously doing so as a sensitive, thoughtful human being on behalf and in defence of greater human virtues — and you love a good, dirty joke if no - one is being debased or humiliated.

When the bombs went off, the solemn silence maintained by the multitude was debased by shouts and cries pitched high with surprise and then with terror.

Yes Gerry when on relinquishes control of their creative output to self proclaimed experts it is debasing and whoring for the hope of a modicum of fame and fortune.

It's understandable that people who labour under this delusion don't worry too much when the practice of essay writing or presentation or other methodologies of the disciplines taught is being debased.

Gold did very well during the Great Depression when FDR debased the currency.

There may be a time, Steve, in the foreseeable future, when all of us are going to be getting rid of our paper money, because it's being debased all over the world.

So, when governments and central banks debase their currencies, as in the»70s, the 2000s, and create conditions where real interest rates are negative, gold flies in terms of the debased currencies, and then crashes back down if you get a Paul Volcker - type, and policy normalizes after a lot of pain, which this generation seems unwilling to take.

«When you have the super-rich paying for an immature Rose Period Picasso $ 104m (# 57m), close to the GNP of some Caribbean or African states, something is very rotten: such gestures do no honour to art: they debase it by making the desire for it pathological.»

But those in high dudgeon have to come to grips with reality — this is what happens when scientists and institutions debase the coin of the realm.

So I was not surprised when Sir Paul Nurse decided a debased rhetoric was the order of the day, rather than the explication of vigorous thought.