Sentence examples for derogating from inspiring English sources

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).

People who insist on following supposed rules are effectively "derogating those who don't keep the faith, much like the crowds who denounced witches, class enemies, and communists out of fear that they would be denounced first".

Hartmann "considered his life's work to lie in the perfecting of simple pleasures, mainly of a physical or domestic nature … The idea of God, for example, he rejected as derogating from his own serene existence".

Derogating from the ECHR in times of war or public emergency is permitted under the rules of the Council of Europe, which oversees the Strasbourg-based institution.

But he was that rare thing, a man who could lift your spirits while derogating your world view.

Ever since Aqueduct began to be such a remarkable financial success, the powers in the N.Y.R.A. have been derogating Belmont-reducing the number of its racing days and transferring most of its stake races to Aqueduct.

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.

Christianity, with its emphasis on the afterlife, has always had a tendency to derogate earthly living as a kind of spectral vanity.