Sentence examples for derogation of a from inspiring English sources
During this development, a parallel phrase appeared in slang: piece of trade, "prostitute," derived from piece of tail, a derogation of a supposedly promiscuous woman.
My favorite derogation of a government is another word long in the language, but one that has fallen into disuse: kakistocracy.
This echoic slang derogation of a dilapidated, bucket-of-bolts rattletrap has now achieved at least informal status as an American English word.
Because the TV spotmaker's miscue gained resonance from a previous snicker-generator: the locker-room derogation of a colleague of mine by Bush, unaware of a nearby live microphone.
From that celestial origin, the term's meaning expanded beyond the strictly religious, coming to mean something akin to "an embodiment, or object of worship," as in David Masson's 1859 derogation of John Donne (a poet whose claim to the metaphysical was of a wholly different stripe) in his book "The Life of John Milton".
Nothing in § 413.1 shall be in derogation of any authority conferred upon the Secretary of the Interior, the Secretary of the Treasury or the Director, United States Secret Service.
The rights described in this section are in addition to and not in derogation of any statutory, constitutional or other legal rights.
Internationally, according to the World Health Organization, ID is defined as a person with an intelligence quotient below 70, a derogation of adaptive capacity, and a debut before 18 years of age (5).
And although article 4(2) of the international covenant on civil and political rights, which speaks to the derogation of rights in an emergency, does not explicitly list a fair trial as a non-derogable right, the U.N. Human Rights Committee in general comment No. 29(11) has stated that the right to a fair trial falls within this category.
Yet it isn't a derogation of the black vernacular -- a marvelously rich and inventive tongue -- to point out that there's a language of the marketplace, too, and learning to speak that language has generally been a precondition for economic success, whoever you are.
A cookie-pusher was a term coined in World War II to be a derogation of diplomats who attended too many receptions; now it is an exponent of "targeted marketing".
