Sentence examples for derogates from inspiring English sources

The New Testament of Christianity in some instances derogates myths by describing them as "godless" and "silly".

But none of this seriously derogates from the triumphalism of the rich.

Goldsmith derogates him as a "machine politician" and in way he is right.

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

Norton A. Schwartz Air Force Chief of Staff Washington, April 21 , 2009• To the Editor: Paul Kane provides a provocative statement on issues that too long were ignored in our thinking: a military structure shaped by the cold war; a policy of retention that derogates the value of human resources; and an effort to mitigate the mind-set supporting a volunteer army.

That would require a wholly extra-scientific position, an idea which Quine derogates as 'First Philosophy' (e.g. Quine 1981, 67).

But the judges said that David Blunkett, the home secretary, was wrong to opt out of Article 5 of the European Convention on Human Rights (which bans detention without trial) without also, in the jargon, "derogating" from Article 14 (which bans discrimination on the grounds of race or nationality).

To do this, Britain has had to derogate from Article 5 of the European Convention on Human Rights guaranteeing the right to liberty and a fair trial.

The government might also argue that, as case law and precedent have extended the ECHR to combat operations with perverse results, Britain should derogate from the convention during operational deployments.

Whereas early research emphasized how groups expect and enforce loyalty and conformity, sometimes resulting in phenomena such as groupthink, they do not always derogate deviants.

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.