| Patents have made science increasingly profit-focused, a debasement which has led to calls from some scientists to do away with them altogether. |
| As I said before, this form of debasement has been allowed to proliferate over the years because we have not had the means to stop it. |
| Each time, a state in fiscal crisis overissued paper money, causing inflation, debasement of the money, and commercial chaos. |
| Mushnick, a self-appointed griper about the debasement of sports and the decline of civilization, prefers to find fault. |
| The utter debasement of the proabortion crowd has to be exposed to daylight. |
| This fiasco illustrates the debasement of our country in the European institutions. |
