Such a loss of dignity and descent into childish behaviour,
Then the seat belt sign lit up as the crew announced our descent into Shanghai.
Nor is there much risk of an imminent descent into trade retaliation.
Retrace Somalia's descent into chaos in Jeffrey Gettleman's "The Most Dangerous Place in the World."
As the pilot began our descent into Tehran, rich and elegant Persian women put on their scarves.
Sims led the descent into the crater, anchoring ropes and spidering down walls. The rest of the party followed.
The story of Roman Emperor Caligula who used violent means to get to the throne, his shocking actions during his tyrannical reign and his subsequent descent into insanity.
So has the relief that came from the abrupt end to weeks of sporadic revolutionary violence and from diminishing fears of a deeper descent into lawlessness.
Faced with what looks from afar like a Hobbesian war of all against all, if not a descent into hell itself, the normal instinct of human beings to exercise their moral faculties grows numb.
In his defiant, rambling speech Seif al-Islam said some concessions would be made by the regime, but also warned of "rivers of blood" and a descent into chaos and civil war.
