The situation quickly devolves into a firefight, with Destro saving the day due to respect for Hawk.

I felt Ari and the others straighten up, go on higher alert, waiting to see how badly this situation would devolve.

Strategy was quickly thrown to the winds as the situation devolved to "every ship for itself."

As the situation devolved into civil war, Sanjurjo was killed in an air crash on July 20.

"If that situation had devolved on me, I wouldn't have known how to handle it."

But the situation has swiftly devolved into a festival of finger pointing.

If the situation devolved into some sort of shooting war, the fewer civilian bystanders wandering through the better.

The situation had devolved into a standoff, with the shooting now all but stopped.

Like so much in sports, the present situation devolves from a single moment.

It was a raucous day in Parliament, in which the political situation evolved and devolved by the hour.