Sentence examples for demean from inspiring English sources

That is not to demean service sector jobs, but some of them are minimum wage with zero-hours contracts and those are challenges for politicians".

The Nobel prize is so important that a tearful reaction would only demean it.

She claimed in 1977 that she was "not myself upset about it", and that "it would demean Nobel prizes if they were awarded to research students".

They argue that the laws demean gay couples, deprive them of essential benefits and violate their "fundamental right" to marry.The pleadings are sprinkled with accounts of gay Americans being denied recognition as married couples.

"It was meant to demean," says Tom Lee, who advised Mr Ford's campaign.

People elbow for status, and often the easiest way to do it is to demean someone else, raising your relative rank just a bit.

Censors have kept their hands off anything that might demean Bo Xilai.

Britain's education minister, Alan Johnson, said this week that internet sites had a "moral obligation" to stop pupils posting videos that demean teachers or other children.

"Don't demean the profession" by implying that you can rate teachers with numbers, he says.

They included: "tell the experimenter a funny joke" and "clap your hands 50 times".Participants who had both status and power did not greatly demean their partners.

We should expect a United States senator not to demean us, to not belittle us, to not use language that insults us and embarrasses the whole state".