An overriding problem that seems to permeate the discussion is the degrading effects of television advertising.

People in the suburbs watch a lot of television, and it has a degrading effect.

They also have a degrading effect on the ozone, although much less than chlorofluorocarbons, or CFC's, and will almost certainly be phased out as well.

Decreased funding was having a degrading effect on facilities and staffing, to the point that the future of the home was in question.

Generally speaking Haeco-CSG has a degrading effect on the performance of both stereo and mono sounds processed through the system.

In her essays Taylor especially criticized the degrading effect of women's economic dependence upon men.

The film depicts the degrading effects of unemployment on a group of men left jobless by the closure of the shipyards in Vigo, Galicia.

Jefferson was to write of the degrading effects of the institution on both slave and master.

We must, therefore, begin to pay more attention to the degrading effect of our grading system!