It's muffled English. It's degraded Japanese.

Others say they feel degraded and ashamed.

He degraded himself by telling me lies.

'Why should I be degraded? I don't understand.'

Some are already deserts others are being seriously degraded by the sand.

In 2011 it was discovered that prions could be degraded by lichens.

US President Barack Obama says that the Islamic State must be degraded and ultimately defeated.

In 2013, they held a demonstration to draw attention to the degraded state of the students dormitory.

Two thirds of Africa's land is degraded and more than half of its population lives without safe drinking water.

The recent photographs of detainees being abused and sexually degraded in Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison added fuel to the fire.

Incautious and expensive advice from McKinsey and other private consulting firms could help turn Bhutan into a degraded tourist zone.

When resources are scarce, or so degraded that they can no longer sustain livelihoods, or inequitably distributed, conflict invariably ensues.

Others say they feel degraded and ashamed. Indeed, TSA workers are now working in a sexually hostile environment, which is illegal.

So now you know whom you have to deal with, and if you fear you will be degraded there is the door.'

An economic analysis of mining effects at this site revealed declining property values, degraded water quality, and the loss of recreational opportunities.

But, for at least five years, Hong Kong s citizens have found themselves starting to cough and wheeze from the city s increasingly degraded air.

For the first time in human history, human society is undermining the environment at the global scale, through climate change, extinctions, and degraded ecosystems.

But there are limits to substitutability the costs of substitution (including human ingenuity) often increase in previously unknown ways as key resources are degraded.

The newly elected president, Rene Preval, is a highly talented and experienced agronomist, and thus has the perfect background to revive Haiti s degraded rural economy.

The law of entropy reminds us that we will leave to future generations a degraded natural patrimony, probably less adequate to their needs than what we inherited.

Yet billions of the world s poorest people live on degraded landscapes, deforested and eroded soils, and over fished coastlines where conservation is vital to lifting them out of poverty.

Re wetting peatlands and the restoration of degraded peat forests should be the next step, followed by the creation of early warning systems to detect and control forest fires.

And once Syria s air defense system is sufficiently degraded, it would be best if Arab countries Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and other Gulf states and Turkey used their air forces to police the zone.

But 70 per cent of the area will be planted with exotic species because QMM s specialists claim that the soil in these areas is too degraded to support the reintroduction of native species.

Mike Rowe, the host of Dirty Jobs, tells some compelling real life job stories. Listen for his insights and observations about the nature of hard work, and how it s been unjustifiably degraded in society today.

We frequently met at conferences, where it was always a delight to hear him speak Russian a Russian that had the accent and elegance of Tolstoi and Pushkin, not the degraded Russian bark of Vladimir Putin.

Surely a twenty first century fisherman does not want to see the basis of his or her living degraded and destroyed, nor does a modern conservationist want to ring fence the environment and stop people from making a living.

But, while this approach would certainly help to catch counterfeits, it would miss the substandard or degraded products made by legitimate firms, which are tested only by the consumer and often at great cost in terms of health risks.

9. Underlines the importance of sustainable forest management, the avoidance of deforestation, as well as the restoration of lost and degraded forest ecosystems of mountains in order to enhance the role of mountains as natural carbon and water regulators

In the short_term, then, quasi_private tracts of the forest stand to benefit from commercialization, while communally exploited tracts will be degraded further. After all, locals are more apt to invest in enclosures to protect their mature trees, while ignoring the need to tend to trees in village commons.

Although the FARC s capabilities have been seriously degraded over the last six years, and its geographical dispersion has shifted away from the main population centers, a series of high profile attacks against business and civilian targets in the main cities would suffice to shatter the impression of security in the country.