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"derogations" is correct and usable in written English
It is a noun meaning making something less important or valuable. You can use it in the context of describing an act that weakens or disparages. For example, "The town council passed a series of derogations to the area's zoning laws."
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derogations
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Plural of derogation
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The carrots will be special declarations and derogations, plus a promise to keep one EU commissioner per country.
Plenty of countries have been given derogations allowing them extra time to bring in a new directive.
However, there is a widespread acceptance elsewhere in Europe that there can be "derogations", as the jargon has it, to such rules.
Yet the subject of permanent derogations is also unlikely to feature in the conclusions.In this section Vladimir III?
Their general approach is to suggest different ways of passing all VAT liability on to the end supplier to the final consumer.At the last count, 140 "derogations" from common European standards had been sought.
But high taxes and restrictions on immigration from outside the European Union may prove a bar to a new generation of financiers seeking their fortune in London (though the City has secured derogations from the government's cap on non-EU migrants).
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Granting the officers anonymity would be a "major derogation of the open justice principles", said barrister Caoilfhionn Gallagher, for the media.
They signed an unprecedented derogation of power from Whitehall.
Companies dislike it, since it eats into their sales in more lucrative markets, and they fear that it will grow when even lower-price markets, such as Poland, join the EU.To ease these worries, the G10 calls for a "derogation" or exemption of new member states from the EU's free trade in pharmaceuticals.
In their December ruling, the law lords had already queried the government's justification for its derogation.
No other European nation has done so.Under the convention, derogation is permitted only "in time of war or other public emergency threatening the life of the nation", and then only "to the extent strictly required".
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