Currency debasement is a theme unlikely to go away any time soon. From Wordnik.com. [Gold Mania? Not Quite] Reference
So far there has been precious little questioning of this long-term debasement of the world's biggest currency. From Wordnik.com. [David McWilliams: The Dollar's Denial] Reference
A doubling of prices in three decades called a debasement of the currency?. From Wordnik.com. [City Journal] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [WHAT REALLY HAPPENED] Reference
That kind of debasement goes hand in hand with their capitioulation to the Islamist threat. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » LEAKED: How The Right-Wing Will Spin Tonight’s Speech] Reference
"There's concern about monetary debasement, which is a big driver for gold. From Wordnik.com. [FXstreet.com] Reference
There is a kind of debasement that occurs at the cultural level, and there is no gain in this for the immigrants and their children. From Wordnik.com. [Political Affairs Magazine] Reference
Earlier in the day, Sarkozy risked the wrath of Muslims declaring that the full-body religious gown is a sign of the 'debasement' of women. From Wordnik.com. [Home | Mail Online] Reference
PARIS - President Nicolas Sarkozy said the Muslim burqa would not be welcome in France, calling the full-body religious gown a sign of the "debasement" of women. From Wordnik.com. [Clipmarks | Live Clips] Reference
Freedom cannot be preserved through its own debasement. From Wordnik.com. [Joshua Stanton: Islamophobia: Targeting an American Community] Reference
Ladder -- (To go up) brief glory; (to go down) debasement. From Wordnik.com. [The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing A Manual of Ready Reference] Reference
Coinage, debasement of, 107-108; alterations in, 122 and note. From Wordnik.com. [The Swedish Revolution Under Gustavus Vasa] Reference
From this state of debasement he soon began to meditate his escape. From Wordnik.com. [Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs] Reference
It has deluged the land with vice, and sunk the population into debasement. From Wordnik.com. [Select Temperance Tracts] Reference
The burqa is "a sign of enslavement and debasement," Mr. Sarkozy said last year. From Wordnik.com. [Burqa Is Banned in France] Reference
This depreciation, added to the debasement, further increased the rise of prices. From Wordnik.com. [England under the Tudors] Reference
The history of the world is all darkened by the awful shadow of woman's debasement. From Wordnik.com. [Aims and Aids for Girls and Young Women On the Various Duties of Life, Physical, Intellectual, And Moral Development; Self-Culture, Improvement, Dress, Beauty, Fashion, Employment, Education, The Home Relations, Their Duties To Young Men, Marriage, Womanhood And Happiness.] Reference
Corruption and debasement here must be felt to the extremities of the national body. From Wordnik.com. [Select Temperance Tracts] Reference
The people themselves become the willing instruments of their own debasement and ruin. From Wordnik.com. [US Presidential Inaugural Addresses] Reference
Intelligent and civilized woman will always rebel against such debasement and servitude. From Wordnik.com. [The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources] Reference
Several writers in the "Ausland" faithfully second him in this debasement of the value of man. From Wordnik.com. [The Theories of Darwin and Their Relation to Philosophy, Religion, and Morality] Reference
These dubious entertainments all share one currency: unabashed delight in cruelty and debasement. From Wordnik.com. [Imus Is Us] Reference
She obeyed its dictates without question, but her feelings underwent no debasement from the contact. From Wordnik.com. [A Love Story] Reference
One favorite device, to which allusion has been already made, consisted in a debasement of the currency. From Wordnik.com. [The Swedish Revolution Under Gustavus Vasa] Reference
+ -- 'Ballads of this description,' says Professor Child, 'are peculiarly liable to interpolation and debasement.'. From Wordnik.com. [Ballads of Scottish Tradition and Romance Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Third Series] Reference
England, where debasement was exceptional, much counterfeit money circulated, to the constant impediment of trade. From Wordnik.com. [Early European History] Reference
Ezekiel, foretelling the debasement of Egypt, had declared, "There shall be no more a prince of the land of Egypt.". From Wordnik.com. [General History for Colleges and High Schools] Reference
"What I'm really worried about is an endless cycle of deficits, debt, and debasement of currency," Mr. Boettke says. From Wordnik.com. [Spreading Hayek, Spurning Keynes] Reference
He felt degraded and guilty; he felt that he was taking sudden and rapid strides in the path of debasement and vice. From Wordnik.com. [The Runaway The Adventures of Rodney Roverton] Reference
It proposes the debasement and downfall of this Republic, and the erection upon its ruins of a mighty military despotism. From Wordnik.com. [The Right of American Slavery] Reference
Every debasement, as it left the coins with less pure metal, lowered their purchasing power and so raised prices unexpectedly. From Wordnik.com. [Early European History] Reference
The cruel debasement and defilement of it penetrated so deeply that he repented bitterly of the choice into which he had been betrayed. From Wordnik.com. [Drolls From Shadowland] Reference
As a consequence of that general debasement, an unmeasured disdain will arise in the inferior classes of all that is great in the state. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847] Reference
But, wherever the efforts of white Christians to aid them are regular, steady, and strong, this destruction and debasement are stayed to. From Wordnik.com. [The American Missionary — Volume 50, No. 4, April, 1896] Reference
And should not dark suspicion and decided reprobation be stamped upon that which is thus associated with the lowest debasement and crime?. From Wordnik.com. [Select Temperance Tracts] Reference
If Jaguar could retain an upscale image after 18 years of being associated with the manufacturer of the Ford Taurus, it's pretty well impervious to debasement. From Wordnik.com. [Are You an Ugly American?] Reference
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