"We demoted Coltrane from being God," he put it.
In 2006 the International Astronomical Union demoted Pluto from being one of the nine major planets to one of the tens of thousands of minor planets.
They do not mean the same thing as greed, but they have displaced it, obscured it — and certainly demoted it from being a deadly sin.
It demotes Arabic from being an official language to having some sort of special status.
Jos Buttler, the wicketkeeper-batsman with a precious talent, did not deserve to be demoted from seven, so Moeen was the odd man out.
And McDowall revealed the board left it to him to inform Ian Durrant that the coach was being demoted from the first team to work with the under-20s.
Also, the raunchy sitcom "2 Broke Girls" is being demoted from 9 p.m. to 8 30 p.m.
Le Jardin des Sens in Montpelier, which at one time had three stars, was demoted from two to one, as was La Madeleine in Sens.
In The Matter Myth physicist Paul Davies and science writer John Gribbin wrote, "Matter as such has been demoted from its central role, to be replaced by concepts such as organization, complexity, and information".
No club is in danger of being demoted from the major leagues except through a kind of administrative fatwa, which is not exercised very often.
