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The U.S. president believes this shows his power; the Russians see this as a low-cost opportunity to degrade American influence.

The IOC used visual inspections in the 1960s, but there were concerns they were degrading and invasive, before mandatory chromosome-based cheek swab tests were introduced.

Mich Gonzalez, Michael's lawyer, says that while immigration detention centers are supposed to be non-punitive - a place to supervise immigrants who are facing deportation - the conditions inside these facilities are "degrading and deadly".

Airstrikes, however, won’t be any more effective at degrading the cartels or diminishing the flow of drugs into the United States than ground operations would be.

Decades of farming and irrigation have degraded the soil, drawing salts and metals to the surface.