Farcical and dystopian acts like the arrest of six people for spilling custard during street theatre often prompt observations that events like the Olympics present a "state of exception" – where standard rights are derogated in order to facilitate a spectacle.
In phrases that ended in war, its practitioners were derogated: in 1984, The Financial Times branded the British socialist Arthur Scargill a "class warrior," and just this month, The Wall Street Journal zapped a liberal richie as "The Billionaire Class Warrior".
God could have placed some matter in it without derogating, in any respect, from all other things; therefore, he has actually placed some matter in that space; therefore, there is no space wholly empty; therefore, all is full.
Portuguese psychologist José Marques and colleagues demonstrated a black sheep effect, whereby people derogate deviants in their own groups relatively more than deviants in other groups.
(The Viscountess Snowden, after a visit to Russia soon after World War I, wrote, "We were behind the 'iron curtain' at last!") In the United States, the undemonstrative first lady Rosalynn Carter was derogated (unfairly, in retrospect) as "the steel magnolia".
The following examples illustrate how some of these comparisons allowed participants to derogate or belittle others in a similar situation to themselves in order to maintain or bolster self-esteem.
The reduplication goody-goody was used by Samuel Smiles in his 1871 book, "Character," to mean spuriously saintly, and was picked up by politicians in the late 19th century to derogate reformers as goo-goos, rooted in goody-goody or -even more derisively - good government.
It would be implemented by introducing a "presumption to derogate" from the ECHR in warfare.
Now an influential thinktank has said Britain should derogate from the ECHR in future armed conflicts because troops cannot fight under the yoke of "judicial imperialism".
Our own government made the UK the only country in Europe to derogate from the European convention on human rights in order to rush through the 2001 Anti-Terrorism, Crime and Security Act.
