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How to use the word degrading in a Sentence?

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Both officials were complicit in the mistreatment of inmates in their custody by security forces, including through rape, torture, or other cruel, inhumane, or degrading treatment.

Antony Blinken

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Our economic sanctions, export controls, and tariffs announced this week, in coordination with the G7, demonstrate that we will continue to work with our allies and partners to increase the pressure on President Putin, make it harder for him to wage his brutal war, and continue degrading the Russian economy’s ability to fuel continued aggression.

Antony Blinken

Found on CNN
1 year ago

For those that dress up it’s an honor, it’s not a degrading thing.

Jordi Martinez

Found on CNN
1 year ago

They are degrading the performance of the mask.

Richard Flagan

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Meanwhile, the name' Atlanta Braves,' the tomahawk adorning the team's uniform, and the' tomahawk chop' that the team exhorts its fans to perform at home games are meant to depict and caricature not just one tribal community but all Native people, and that is certainly how baseball fans and Native people everywhere interpret them, in our discussions with the Atlanta Braves, we have repeatedly and unequivocally made our position clear -- Native people are not mascots, and degrading rituals like the' tomahawk chop' that dehumanize and harm us have no place in American society.

American Indians President Fawn Sharp

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Robotics has very good potential to make people's lives more meaningful, by letting them not do the' five Ds' : degrading, demeaning, dirty, dangerous or driving tasks.

Marcelo Ang

Found on CNN
2 years ago

People are celebrating, the capital has been liberated from our enemies, but as far as I am concerned there is little to celebrate because we still have fighting to do, our objectives are degrading the enemy's fighting capabilities. This is a criminal army and we will follow it everywhere to make sure it doesn't have the capacity to come back.

Getachew Reda

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Embalming chemicals are designed to preserve remains, but they do that by breaking down the protein inside the body, so that there's nothing available for bacteria to consume. It does have a very detrimental effect in degrading the DNA.

Linzi Wilson-Wilde

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Ifind Congresswoman Greene comments deeply offensive, using vile, antisemitic slurs, degrading those with special needs, endorsing violence against political leaders, and further victimizing those who suffered unimaginable trauma is absolutely repugnantand it's unbecoming of any member of Congress. Ifind Congresswoman Greene'S, LIZ CHENEY'S FUTURES IN BALANCE AS HOUSE GOP GATHERS FOR CRUCIAL MEETING WEDNESDAY.

Tom Cole

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

And I was desensitized to men making creepy comments about me, but I was not desensitized to someone blatantly insulting and degrading my father in front of me, someone who I looked up to and loved very much, and that was very upsetting to me.

Samantha Cohen

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Going high is the only thing that works, because when we go low, when we use those same tactics of degrading and dehumanizing others, we just become part of the ugly noise that's drowning out everything else.

Michelle Obama

Found on CNN
3 years ago

The admitted and repeated use of racial slurs by a judge who has taken an oath to administer justice fairly and impartially is wrong, period. There is never any circumstance or context in which such derogatory and degrading language is okay, sadly, inequities still exist in society and in our judicial system. District Judge Jessie LeBlanc has compromised District Judge Jessie LeBlanc ability to preside as a judge, and District Judge Jessie LeBlanc has damaged the judiciary. District Judge Jessie LeBlanc should resign. The people of the 23rd Judicial District and our state deserve better.

Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards

Found on CNN
4 years ago

I entered into what I thought was going to be a real relationship with him and it was extremely degrading from that point on.

Jessica Mann

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Taking photographs of a woman under her skirt or neckline is degrading and unjustifiable abuse of her personal space, often, these photos are shared in chat groups or even distributed commercially.

Christine Lambrecht

Found on CNN
4 years ago

This character has all the degrading attributes that black people are given in the racist imagery of our societies, it is totally racist and it maintains a degrading image of the black person, which has consequences in everyday life.

Mouhad Reghif

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

My most urgent concern is that, in the United States, Mr. Assange would be exposed to a real risk of serious violations of his human rights, including his freedom of expression, his right to a fair trial and the prohibition of torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.

Nils Melzer

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Mr. Assange has been deliberately exposed, for a period of several years, to progressively severe forms of cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, the cumulative effects of which can only be described as psychological torture.

Nils Melzer

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Locals simply don't want this job cause they think its degrading, so we're forced to hire a lot of foreign workers.

Lim Chae-wook

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Further, it is my hope that appropriate steps are taken by the University and any affiliated organizations to ensure that these two students know their words and actions are hurtful, degrading, and hateful towards the entire OU community, especially the black community.

Adran Gibbs Jr.

Found on CNN
5 years ago

It's extremely likely President Trump is going to appoint someone who is not going to follow Justice Kennedy's lead in those cases and will go even further in undermining constitutional rights and degrading the rule of law.

Elizabeth Wydra

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Cutting the hair of those arrested to ‘make them masculine’ and forcing them to dress like men are forms of public shaming and amount to cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment.

Aceh Police

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

Our divestment policy is a message that we don’t want to do business with companies that seek to profit off of separating families, degrading the environment and heightening tensions with long-time partners such as Mexico.

Jesse Arreguin

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

When you use a tool like this on an incapacitated person, to me it certainly amounts to cruel and degrading treatment.

Nils Melzer

Found on Reuters
6 years ago

We fear they are now at significant risk of torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment.

Elizabeth Throssell

Found on Reuters
6 years ago

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