How To Use derogate In A Sentence
- I am speaking of the ease with which motives are impugned, lifestyles derogated, name-calling condoned, individuals and groups demonized. The Ten Commandments
- The idea that passive equity management could outpace active management—then the mutual fund industry's universal strategy—was derogated and ridiculed. How the Index Fund Was Born
- Such shameful behaviour will certainly derogate from his fame.
- However, in the case of total or partial non-payment, Member States may derogate from this rule.
- Moreover, it can be said that an implied reservation derogates from the grant, for the grantor has apparently given the grantee an unencumbered estate and is then trying to burden it with an easement or profit.
- To view s 104 in this way is not to deny the mandatory nature of the duty, nor to derogate from previous authorities - and there is reference to them.
- The result of this is that production of wealth is derogated, seen as the domain of the poor, the shiftless, the stupid, and the foreign, while the really important tasks—increasing the quantity of money that one holds—is the job for an educated and enlightened person. Archive 2009-05-01
- To say that the proposition is imbecilic is not to derogate the intelligence of the folks whose political maneuvers have brought us to this pass.
- What I am here to say shall not derogate anything from his Highness’s supremacy, because it includeth no such thing as a nomothetical power to prescribe and appoint such sacred and significant ceremonies as he shall think good. The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2)
- The prohibition against torture has become one of only four or five "peremptory norms" in international law -- norms that apply to all states and which cannot be derogated from by any state, for any reason. Craig Martin: The Fallacies of the Torture Debate
