The Romans have degenerated minds, Most High Majesty.

The dispute degenerated into armed clashes on 7 December 1918.

A president s modernizing vision degenerated into a dictator s power driven myopia.

Democracy has, of course, degenerated into what is sometimes called managed democracy.

Democracy always degenerated into mob rule, monarchy into tyranny, and aristocracy into oligarchy.

On November 11, 1961, a demonstration called by the Front degenerated into violence.

Indeed, the presidential election degenerated into a crude exercise in ballot rigging and voter intimidation.

By mid 1990, however, the conflict had degenerated into a three way struggle for power.

As a result, Palestinian politics has degenerated into a naked struggle for the spoils of power.

If the legal norms had been observed in Rwanda, the situation there would never have degenerated.

They were being bred by the Morlocks who had degenerated into the lowest form of human life

Alarmingly, the resulting political debate has degenerated into a shrill cacophony of moral righteousness, finger pointing, scapegoating, and stereotyping.

Egyptian blogger Lasto Adri , deplores how what was supposed to be a sporting event, degenerated into a nasty confrontation.

TEL AVIV Israel s concern about the specter of a nuclear Iran has now degenerated into a crisis of confidence concerning the United States.

While things have not yet degenerated that far in the national legislature, the practice of disrupting the house has become an established substitute for parliamentary procedure.

However, the ensuing discussions on this proposal degenerated into a fracas, as a result of which UNMIL peacekeepers had to intervene in order to restore calm.

However, the debate in Parliament degenerated into a rowdy session in which several members of Parliament were wounded and a Minister was detained by the Kenyan police.

The controversy could have kickstarted a sensible national conversation about our collective history and cycle of societal violence. Instead, it has degenerated into a bit of a circus.

Unfortunately, under the far too long leadership of Guido Westerwelle, the FDP has degenerated into a party notable for defending the freedom only of a few privileged individuals bankers and businessmen.

The sport also exacerbated tensions at the beginning of the Yugoslav Wars of the 1990s, when a match between Dinamo Zagreb and Red Star Belgrade degenerated into rioting in May 1990.

In this context, political and military tension has arisen in situations which have rapidly degenerated into armed conflicts, characterized by, inter alia, the presence of foreign mercenaries, according to the reports received.

That explains why the whole human rights agenda, instead of being a cooperative exercise, has degenerated into a Western managed kangaroo court, always looking out for criminals , as they call them, among developing countries.

As for Syria, the revolt against one of the most secular autocracies in the Arab world has degenerated into a fight to the death between Sunnis and Shia that is spilling over to other countries in the region.

The situation created by the resumption of war rapidly degenerated into a real catastrophe, jeopardizing the country apos s territorial integrity and forcing the legitimate government to take defensive measures to prevent the realization of UNITA apos s intentions.

Concrete steps have been taken, but much remains to be done if the world is to be completely rid of these weapons which in the past caused serious tensions in various parts of the world that degenerated into armed conflicts.

What was supposed to be a coordinated effort to protect civilians from ruthless repression and advance a peaceful transition the plan developed by former United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan has now degenerated into a proxy war between the United States and Russia.

In this context, it should be noted that the proclamation of sovereign national States has mainly created positive conditions for the new international order, although in some cases, where nationalism has degenerated into chauvinist extremist trends, or even into conquest minded aggression, the effect has been negative.