devaluationin a sentence
- Mexico has experienced many currency devaluations.
- During their annual visits, he and my mother stay at the former Sheraton in Tehran, a hotel they could have never afforded without a complete devaluation of Iranian currency.† (source)
- SO DARK THE CON OF MAN "Sophie," Langdon said, "the Priory's tradition of perpetuating goddess worship is based on a belief that powerful men in the early Christian church 'conned' the world by propagating lies that devalued the female and tipped the scales in favor of the masculine."† (source)
- THE TWO CAROLINES—Caroline Perkins and Caroline O'Day—appealed to us, although the breasts of Caroline O'Day were devalued, in Owen's view, by her Catholicism.† (source)
- Interpersonal relationships are usually unstable and intense, and may be characterized by alternation of the extremes of overidealization and devaluation.† (source)
- Now I've pulled that ace out of the hole, taken a good look, and found that it's useless to me, devalued over time.† (source)
- Mae told Nanci she had no intentions of making her feel devalued, that things were just busy at the Circle, and that she had spaced on this essential reciprocation, which she quickly remedied.† (source)
- And when I was thinking about this award, thinking about what it represents, I realized that it can be about more than community service—not to devalue that at all.† (source)
- One cannot rear young people in such wise that half of them think themselves superior by biology, without dulling ambition and devaluing accomplishment.† (source)
- I didn't have flashbacks, nightmares, trouble sleeping, impaired concentration, depression, or self-devaluation about having killed for the first time—seeing the soldier blasted out of the PLO guard tower and landing lifeless on the ground.† (source)
- However he valued or devalued his own achievement, it did stand as an accomplishment.† (source)
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- Three months before, on March 18, 1780, desperate to curb rampant inflation, Congress had resolved to devalue the dollar.† (source)
- And, of course, it's the general devaluation.† (source)
- The rapid devaluation of money made it difficult to make ends meet.† (source)
- He predicted the largest real estate devaluation since the Great Depression.
- The Vatican is a fortress because the Catholic Church holds half of its equity inside its walls-rare paintings, sculpture, devalued jewels, priceless books …. then there is the gold bullion and the real estate deeds inside the Vatican Bank vaults.† (source)
- Sensitive, but after I invited you to join my professional network, you didn't ask me to join your professional network, and though I know I'm just a nobody in Orlando, I felt like I had to tell you that it made me feel devalued.† (source)
- Because when you begin to devalue youngsters and make them feel that who they are doesn't count, then we've turned them off on education.† (source)
- She said, "Our task is to help move them towards mastery of the language at school, in its oral and written form, but to do that in a way where they are not devalued, or where they feel denigrated in any way by virtue of their cultural and linguistic differences."† (source)
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