Sentence examples for derogated the from inspiring English sources

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".

In Study 2, unhappy participants sharply derogated the desserts they rejected or were denied, relative to those selected by or for them, whereas happy participants showed no such derogation.

In particular, it derogated the former Spanish thin-capitalization regime and replaced it by a broader rule that stablishes limitations to the deductibility of financial expenses incurred in excess of a given percentage of a Spanish borrower's adjusted operating profits regardless of whether or not the debt is with related parties.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.