Sentence examples for derogate the from inspiring English sources

When I discussed complaints about that article with New York Times staffers, I was told it wasn't intended to derogate the other paper but merely to point out that its readers were losing heart.

This appeal to the rights of a fictitious group of people that the police perceive to be in danger, in this case from a group of cyclists, is used to derogate the rights they otherwise claim to afford to protesters.

Many Kashmiri Muslims are dissatisfied with the actions of Indian security forces, but that does not derogate the rights of secular Muslims and non-Muslims in Kashmir to receive the protection of the Indian Constitution.

"Turkey will derogate the European convention on human rights insofar as it does not conflict with its international obligations," the deputy prime minister, Numan Kurtulmuş, was quoted as saying by the state-run Anadolu news agency, in a corrected statement.

In this case, that is what the creative Gore word-slingers seeking to keep the Democrats in office have done in their coordinated effort to derogate the freshness of the Bush challenge.

Poorly damped resonance frequencies often cause self-excited vibrations, so called chatter vibrations, which derogate the machined surface and may cause tool breakage.

Another derogates the story that won't go away as "rumint" -- merely rumored intelligence.

Every purist (a word usually derogating the upholders of standards) stands foursquare against the split infinitive.

More than any major candidate in recent times, Mr. Santorum has derogated the federal government on religious grounds.

In other words, unhappy people derogated the dessert they did not receive, whereas happy people felt no need to do so.

Steve Scott, a reader from Naugatuck, Conn., was disturbed when a June 22 Arts section article derogated the artistic legacy of the recently deceased LeRoy Neiman, thinking it tantamount to "spitting on his grave".