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What that does is, it provides follicles with the space to grow, but also it allows space for blood vessels to infiltrate the scaffold without degrading the material. – Ramille Shah	Found on CNN 6 years ago
You'll see someone working in degrading conditions, with an exhausting work schedule, eating one meal a day, while they don't receive any form of salary or a very small one, because their food and tools are discounted. – Marcelo Goncalves Campos	Found on CNN 7 years ago
I will rather keep quiet than degrading mental acumen by engaging in discussion with mindless creatures! – Ashima	added by ashima 7 years ago
There is no place for this type of demeaning or degrading behavior in our Corps -- this includes our actions online, we need to be brutally honest with ourselves and each other. This behavior hurts fellow Marines, family members, and civilians. It is a direct attack on our ethos and legacy. – Ronald Green	Found on CNN 7 years ago
It was a very, very degrading process. – Clare Byaruhanga	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
It's hard to tell only from the video or the press coverage but I do think that it's a very worrisome development that can amount to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment under any circumstance.... – Juan Mendez	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
The most important part is understanding that the mealworm's gut is so efficient in degrading plastic, the bacteria is essential. – Stanford University engineer Wei-Min Wu	Found on CNN 8 years ago
And I think porn unfortunately has given sex a sort of degrading factor…. – Jill Dictrow	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
I think sex has a bad connotation for two reasons. On the religious aspect, some people feel that they are not supposed to be giving their virginity away, and I think porn unfortunately has given sex a sort of degrading factor…. – Jill Dictrow	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
What we would prefer to see from the Russians is a more constructive engagement with the 60-member coalition that's led by the United States that's focused on degrading and ultimately destroying ISIL. – White House spokesman Josh Earnest	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
It was embarrassing, degrading, i felt low, I felt helpless. – Charnesia Corley	Found on CNN 8 years ago
We fail to see that some are mired in desperate and degrading poverty, with no way out, while others have not the faintest idea of what to do with their possessions, vainly showing off their supposed superiority and leaving behind them so much waste which, if it were the case everywhere, would destroy the planet. – Pope Francis	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
No one would dare to say a degrading remark about being black or dare to say a degrading remark on Instagram about someone being gay, but my age -- anybody and everybody would say something degrading to me. And I always think to myself, why is that accepted? What's the difference between that and racism or any discrimination? They're judging me by my age. I don't understand. I'm trying to get my head around it. – Sarah Silverman	Found on CNN 8 years ago
It is unacceptable for our development partners to use their aid stick to pressure us to do certain things or else they will cut aid, we will reach a point where we will say this is too degrading ... keep your aid. – Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The United States will continue to stand with the people of the Iraqi Kurdistan Region and all Iraqis as we work together in confronting these terrorist acts and towards our shared goal of degrading and defeating (ISIS). – The State	Found on CNN 9 years ago
I want Montana to be known as a decent state where people can live within the security of laws and protect their children and associates from degrading and indecent practices, i believe this bill is written preserving that reputation. – Walt Hill	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
In addition to degrading and objectifying women, posing naked may actually be counterproductive to supporting women’s rights. Those opposing equality for women, will just point to the naked women and argue to the parents of the nation that it is their traditional values that prevent their daughters from being degraded and objectified as women, this will be a powerful argument because most parents do not want to see their daughters posing naked. – Kamal Nawash	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Celebrity-worship and hero-worship should not be confused. Yet we confuse them every day, and by doing so we come dangerously close to depriving ourselves of all real models. We lose sight of the men and women who do not simply seem great because they are famous but are famous because they are great. We come closer and closer to degrading all fame into notoriety. – Daniel J. Boorstin	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Flattery may be considered as a mode of companionship, degrading but profitable to him who flatters. – Theophrastus	added by anonymous 12 years ago
To strive with an equal is dangerous with a superior, mad with an inferior, degrading. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Such praise coming from so degraded a source, was degrading to me, its recipient. – Cicero	added by anonymous 14 years ago

What that does is, it provides follicles with the space to grow, but also it allows space for blood vessels to infiltrate the scaffold without degrading the material.

– Ramille Shah

Found on CNN
6 years ago

You'll see someone working in degrading conditions, with an exhausting work schedule, eating one meal a day, while they don't receive any form of salary or a very small one, because their food and tools are discounted.

– Marcelo Goncalves Campos

Found on CNN
7 years ago

I will rather keep quiet than degrading mental acumen by engaging in discussion with mindless creatures!

– Ashima

added by ashima
7 years ago

There is no place for this type of demeaning or degrading behavior in our Corps -- this includes our actions online, we need to be brutally honest with ourselves and each other. This behavior hurts fellow Marines, family members, and civilians. It is a direct attack on our ethos and legacy.

– Ronald Green

Found on CNN
7 years ago

It was a very, very degrading process.

– Clare Byaruhanga

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

It's hard to tell only from the video or the press coverage but I do think that it's a very worrisome development that can amount to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment under any circumstance....

– Juan Mendez

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

The most important part is understanding that the mealworm's gut is so efficient in degrading plastic, the bacteria is essential.

– Stanford University engineer Wei-Min Wu

Found on CNN
8 years ago

And I think porn unfortunately has given sex a sort of degrading factor….

– Jill Dictrow

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

I think sex has a bad connotation for two reasons. On the religious aspect, some people feel that they are not supposed to be giving their virginity away, and I think porn unfortunately has given sex a sort of degrading factor….

– Jill Dictrow

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

What we would prefer to see from the Russians is a more constructive engagement with the 60-member coalition that's led by the United States that's focused on degrading and ultimately destroying ISIL.

– White House spokesman Josh Earnest

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It was embarrassing, degrading, i felt low, I felt helpless.

– Charnesia Corley

Found on CNN
8 years ago

We fail to see that some are mired in desperate and degrading poverty, with no way out, while others have not the faintest idea of what to do with their possessions, vainly showing off their supposed superiority and leaving behind them so much waste which, if it were the case everywhere, would destroy the planet.

– Pope Francis

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

No one would dare to say a degrading remark about being black or dare to say a degrading remark on Instagram about someone being gay, but my age -- anybody and everybody would say something degrading to me. And I always think to myself, why is that accepted? What's the difference between that and racism or any discrimination? They're judging me by my age. I don't understand. I'm trying to get my head around it.

– Sarah Silverman

Found on CNN
8 years ago

It is unacceptable for our development partners to use their aid stick to pressure us to do certain things or else they will cut aid, we will reach a point where we will say this is too degrading ... keep your aid.

– Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The United States will continue to stand with the people of the Iraqi Kurdistan Region and all Iraqis as we work together in confronting these terrorist acts and towards our shared goal of degrading and defeating (ISIS).

– The State

Found on CNN
9 years ago

I want Montana to be known as a decent state where people can live within the security of laws and protect their children and associates from degrading and indecent practices, i believe this bill is written preserving that reputation.

– Walt Hill

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

In addition to degrading and objectifying women, posing naked may actually be counterproductive to supporting women’s rights. Those opposing equality for women, will just point to the naked women and argue to the parents of the nation that it is their traditional values that prevent their daughters from being degraded and objectified as women, this will be a powerful argument because most parents do not want to see their daughters posing naked.

– Kamal Nawash

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Celebrity-worship and hero-worship should not be confused. Yet we confuse them every day, and by doing so we come dangerously close to depriving ourselves of all real models. We lose sight of the men and women who do not simply seem great because they are famous but are famous because they are great. We come closer and closer to degrading all fame into notoriety.

– Daniel J. Boorstin

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Flattery may be considered as a mode of companionship, degrading but profitable to him who flatters.

– Theophrastus

added by anonymous
12 years ago

To strive with an equal is dangerous with a superior, mad with an inferior, degrading.

– Lucius Annaeus Seneca

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Such praise coming from so degraded a source, was degrading to me, its recipient.

– Cicero

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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