Sherrilyn Kenyon

In my stories, I controlled what happened in a way I couldn't in real life. My characters lived through the horror and degradation of the cruelty of others and they not only survived, they thrived. They gave me hope and laughter, and they kept me going in spite of everything else. They were my heroes.

American Writer

Henning Mankell

The fundamental driving force for me is to create a change in the world we live in... It is about exploitation, plundering and degradation. I have a small possibility to participate in the resistance. Most of the things that I do are part of a resistance, a form of solidarity work.

Swedish Writer

Jonathan Dimbleby

Presidents and prime ministers, whether they live in the rich or the poor world, are insulated and isolated from the devastating impact of global poverty. They read the statistics, but they rarely witness at first hand the misery and degradation of life on a dollar a day.

British Writer

Sylvia Earle

Some experts look at global warming, increased world temperature, as the critical tipping point that is causing a crash in coral reef health around the world. And there's no question that it is a factor, but it's preceded by the loss of resilience and degradation.

American Scientist

Philip Pullman

Authors are not a special case, deserving of more sympathy than many other groups. We are a particular case of a general degradation of the quality of life, and we are not going to stop pointing it out, because we speak for many other groups as well.

Ernestine Rose

But it will be said that the husband provides for the wife, or in other words, he feeds, clothes and shelters her! I wish I had the power to make every one before me fully realize the degradation contained in that idea.

American Activist

George Stevens

The audience too should be respected by being presented with a film as they remember it, and for those who have not seen it, as it was intended to be seen. Anything less is a degradation of the film and its audience.

American Director

Sebastiao Salgado

As in any person's life, there have been difficult moments: I have a son with Down's syndrome; through my photography, I have witnessed all manner of human degradation. But there have also been very happy moments.

Brazilian Photographer

Greg MacGillivray

The ocean is our planet's life support system, yet in my travels and at home, I've seen its degradation firsthand.

Abu Bakr

The people who abandon Jihad fall a victim to humility and degradation.

Leader

Use 'degradation' to describe a situation that is getting worse by stages, not suddenly.

Negative Progress

Express the severity of worsening or reduction, particularly in quality or quantity.

Intensity Matters

Use it when someone's dignity or respect is reduced, often by others' actions.

Respect Aspect

Emphasize when someone feels shamed or loses self-respect, especially publicly.

Loss of Dignity

Highlight the shift from high to low in rank, status, or esteem.

Status Downfall

Mention 'degradation' relating to job positions or roles within organizations.

Professional Context

Refer to the scientific meaning when discussing the breakdown of substances.

Scientific Breakdown

Recognize scientific context by indicators like 'chemical', 'biological', or 'environmental'.

Contextual Clues

 and massive degradation of lakes and rivers. Surprisingly, agriculture is the biggest contributor to climate change. It generates 30% of greenhouse gas emissions. That's more than the emissions from all electricity and industry, or from all the world's planes, trains and automobiles. Most agricultural emissions come from tropical deforestation, methane from animals and rice fields,

Jonathan Foley: The...

 One should only listen to music that promotes intelligence, self-discipline, and courage, and all other kinds of music must be avoided. Furthermore, Plato fervently denounced any music that deviated from established musical conventions, fearing that doing so would lead to the degradation

Music and creativity in...

 we have the resources to support a growing human population, but we’re currently failing to distribute those resources equitably, and changing that should be our priority. And we no longer see population size as a primary cause of environmental degradation and climate change,

The infamous overpopulati...

 but like many species found around the world the animals that live here are also in steep decline and that's because of habitat degradation farming practices and of course climate change in this series we will be visiting the people on the front line of conservation here

Saving an Iconic Bird of...

 You know, it's heartening to me. Even though, quite frankly, some of your presentations are horrifying, absolutely horrifying. It's true. It's true. You know, between the environmental degradation and the crashing of the world markets you're talking about.

One woman, eight...

 offering me a greater maneuverability over the bionic limb. We're also building exoskeletons. This exoskeleton becomes stiff and soft in just the right areas of the running cycle, to protect the biological joints from high impacts and degradation.

New bionics let us run,...

 areas in the ocean to protect the areas where they eat and of course we know that penguins well they're facing a lot of threats and they're very susceptible to habitat degradation and ocean pollution but through your research what are you finding

Protecting a Penguin...

 right as it does in the natural world life is really good at this so there's a bunch of people biologists who study molting and who studies the shedding of skin it's timed degradation here's John Warner and he's making polymers again

Creating a Bio-Industrial...

 fences for anti poaching and a very important part being that of road maintenance because if left alone roads will be probably your primary source of erosion and degradation of your land so they need to keep that all up to scratch

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 we must focus on how we can help children grow up healthy. We must ask if farmers in rural communities can thrive, and if everyone can afford the food. We must try to minimize environmental degradation.

Degradation