How To Use Debasement In A Sentence
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For he really did believe capitalism controls the proles not by physical oppression but by bread and circuses, by cultural debasement - or ‘dumbing down’ as we now nervously say.
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So far there has been precious little questioning of this long-term debasement of the world's biggest currency.
David McWilliams: The Dollar's Denial
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The holy humble temper of a Christian, both in advancement and debasement, is described: and both poor and rich are directed on what grounds to build their joy and comfort, v. 9-11.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
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Each time, a state in fiscal crisis overissued paper money, causing inflation, debasement of the money, and commercial chaos.
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Worse, a discouraged, angry, and alienated lower class is directly related to the growing debasement of our popular culture.
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Currency debasement is a theme unlikely to go away any time soon.
Gold Mania? Not Quite
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He abominated such manifestations of the debasement of the modern age as cars, wireless sets and refrigerators; cherished the past; feared the future; and found in the societies he investigated a way of life and a moral attitude that seemed infinitely more important than anything on offer in the "civilized" West.
Drawn to Harsh Places
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Investors are turning to gold because of fears of long-term inflation and major currency debasement due to fiscal deficits, government debt issuance and quantitative easing.
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This process is rooted in a constant debasement of humans, deprived of moral and ethical ‘values.’
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Patents have made science increasingly profit-focused, a debasement which has led to calls from some scientists to do away with them altogether.
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And with the creep of monetary inflation comes the specter of myriad inflationary effects, currency debasement, and progressive monetary disorder.
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They deny both the justice and expediency of permitting any degree of ignorance or debasement to work the forfeiture of self-ownership, and pronounce slavery continued for such a cause the worst of all, inasmuch as it is the _robbery of the poor because he is poor_.
The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus
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To build quickly or formulaically generally entails the debasement of materials, with a resulting sensory impoverishment.
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Jean Valjean, the reformed criminal, discovers her, is made aware that her debasement is the result of the act of his foreman, and takes her, half dead with misery and sickness, to his own house.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 57, July, 1862
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Why are you always promoting some kind of adulteration or debasement of our culture?
Bad Pat
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They blame pornography for divorce, the dissolution of families, the debasement of sex, and general spiritual dissolution.
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A doubling of prices in three decades called a debasement of the currency?
City Journal
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The debasement and corruption of the media are profound symptoms of the decomposition of the country's democracy.
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Other means of paying the debt are either inflation (debasement of the value of money), or economic growth - which is falsely measured because it is based on undervalued exhaustible resources and unvalued pollution.
Herman Daly Festschrift~ Socially Sustainable Economic Degrowth
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The debasement of the media can be traced in relation to the great political convulsions of the past 30 years.
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Brazil's sharp-tongued Finance Minister Guido Mantega quickly became an international sensation when he coined the phrase "currency wars" to refer to excessive currency manipulation in these times of high volatility and dollar debasement.
Forbes.com: News
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Funny money is a funny thing, the more you expand the supply of it - the more its purchasing power lessens: it is known as the debasement of the currency - it loses value.
WHAT REALLY HAPPENED
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And with the creep of monetary inflation comes the specter of myriad inflationary effects, currency debasement, and progressive monetary disorder.
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Or consider, Frum says, the debasement of universities, where gay studies, courses on the novels of Louis L'Amour and the frivolities of decon-struction proliferate.
Up From Geniality
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When the name of Gail Wynand became a threat in the publishing world, a group of newspaper owners took him aside -- at a city charity affair which all had to attend -- and reproached him for what they called his debasement of the public taste.
The Fountainhead
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People didn't even want to have their films previewed on film because video was such a ‘debasement’ of their art.
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Against currency debasement, which is the practice of lowering the value of the currency at the expense of citizens, the best protection remains the precious metals.
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