The Frankish currency underwent a similar debasing at around this time.

Among his measures was the debasing of coinage by reducing the gold content.

Essays may be having something of a revival, but there has been a general debasing of the currency.

You do not know how degrading this city life is, how debasing, and yet how absorbing.

Ptolemy, also, permitted a debasing of the coinage as an attempt to repay the loans.

Others contributed to the deplorable debasing of names: Bill's opponent in 1996, for one, who chose to be known as Bob.

Numismatic evidence shows progressive debasing of the coinage, suggesting economic retrenchment accompanying the increased cultural isolation.

But this happens very slowly with hard money and is not the disaster that printing-press inflation is, or the debasing of hard money.

Billon is often the result of a sudden debasing of circulating silver coinage due to hyperinflation.

What the PS's represent is nothing short of a debasing of our species and a debacle for our immortal souls!"

For a man like Saladin Chamcha the debasing of Englishness by the English was a thing too painful to contemplate.

During the Crisis of the Third Century, constant wars required a lot of coins to be produced, leading to heavy debasing of precious metal coinage.

The DeLay machine's tooth-and-claw approach to politics lives on, from the Texas delegation he brazenly gerrymandered to his quid pro quo debasing of the lobbying industry.

Lerma's financial horizons remained medieval: his only resources as a finance minister were the debasing of the coinage and edicts against luxury and the making of silver plate.

In 1866 censorship committee in St.Petersburg attempted judicial procedures accusing Sechenov of spreading materialism and of "debasing of Christian morality".

He wrote a special work on currency, Ein wahrhaft goldenes Buch, in which he stigmatizes the debasing of coinage by princes as dishonest exploitation of the people.

For a moment my soul was elevated from its debasing and miserable fears, to contemplate the divine ideas of liberty and self-sacrifice, of which these sights were the monuments and the remembrancers.

In the section headed "We will clean up politics", the text pointed to the debasing of democracy through Conservative MPs who had taken cash for asking questions in the House of Commons.

He took this action, he said, because some states were permitting marriages that were "abhorrent and repugnant," and he aimed to "exterminate now this debasing, ultrademoralizing, un-American and inhuman leprosy."

I promise you now that if we do not act tonight to protect this woman from the threats against her, I shall move ahead with that plan rather than risk a debasing, distorted, sensationalist disclosure by the police and the press.

This attack on an entire nation of people underlies debasing of the 'Filipino-ness' of Manny Pacquiao, an achiever, and lack of positive portrayals of Filipinos and Filipinas in the media.

For several years, he and other Republicans have thrown up one road block after another to President Clinton's judicial appointments - a partisan debasing of the honored principle under which the Senate advises and consents on presidential nominations.

Though "Something From the Oven" has the shape of a history of the debasing and subsequent improvement of American domestic cooking, Shapiro is at her considerable best as a biographer of the writers who wrought these changes.

And the men were all too ready to debase them.

You could not have found a better way of debasing me, in my own eyes.

Television news may be debasing itself before the wrong demographic.

I know he's capable of completely debasing another human being.

We must not debase it - least of all in our poetry.

Some say that the word has been debased beyond redemption.

But I will not debase myself that much no matter how provoked.

"We must not debase the experience by reducing it to words," he said.

Their self-esteem is so low they think by debasing themselves with men, they'll actually feel more powerful.

This representation has been debased by much of the recent literature.

Will this stop me from calling her again and debasing myself even further (if that is possible)?

Because they cared that the constitutional process not be debased?

Not debased and bestial as others would have you believe.

Nor are they generally asked, in the name of political loyalty, to debase themselves as workers.

"It debases the nation at home and abroad," you wrote.

To pay its bills, they say, America eventually must debase the currency.

We do nothing willingly to harm or debase our cultural system.

There comes a time, I believe, when the stomach debases us against our wills.

I'll not debase myself in her eyes by living down to my reputation."

Angry at the salesman, I found myself debasing the people of his region.

We'll feed them so they won't have to debase themselves any further.

Knowledge has not only been debased and withheld, but distorted.

We will not hear you debase that exalted word in our presence.