Sentence examples for has derogated from inspiring English sources

More than any major candidate in recent times, Mr. Santorum has derogated the federal government on religious grounds.

Arbiters of good usage resigned to being called "word police" have been denounced as wordinistas, just as nosy reporters have been derogated as scandalistas.

To get his ugly law on the statute book, Blunkett has to "derogate" from the European Convention on Human Rights, now supposedly enshrined in our domestic law.

Dean had earlier derogated Kerry's political courage in not forthrightly opposing the recent war, which the Vietnam-heroic Kerry shrewdly escalated into an attack on his personal courage.

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.

However individual Member States can choose (and some have) to derogate from this by writing a lower age limit into their laws.

He added: "Although I have concluded that NGN should have foreseen that their interests were fully protected if the preliminary issue had been substantially derogated to PC Rowland's team, nevertheless they were entitled to protect their own interests in any reasonable manner which they saw fit.

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.

Now an influential thinktank has said Britain should derogate from the ECHR in future armed conflicts because troops cannot fight under the yoke of "judicial imperialism".

To be accused of channeling is to be dismissed as a ventriloquist's live dummy, derogated at not having a mind of one's own.

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