Sentence examples for is a derogation from inspiring English sources

An epithet is a derogation or slur not as "dirty" as a vulgarism or as explosive as an expletive, with which it is often confused.

In John Bartlett's 1848 Dictionary of Americanisms, it is defined as a "woman's word" for "finical," probably rooted in the sense of fine as "small," which has now become finicky and is a derogation meaning "excessively meticulous".

"Rescinding the rule is a derogation of the department's duty to protect students from exploitation and taxpayers from the waste of federal funds," said the New York attorney general, Barbara D. Underwood, whose office joined 17 other state attorneys general that sued the department for delaying its enforcement.

162 It is clear from the case-law that the conditions set out above must be interpreted strictly, because Article 5(1) of the Copyright Directive is a derogation from the general rule established by that directive that the copyright holder must authorise any reproduction of his protected work (Infopaq International, paragraphs 56 and 57).

I should like to express the disappointment of these small and medium-sized enterprises in the European Union shoe industry by saying that this problem cannot be solved by our claiming that there is a derogation in the agreement.

"My whole life has been a derogation of my responsibilities to my fatal foetus".

This could have been a derogation of the president's policy or of the chief editorial writer's prose.

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".

And underlying this confusion is a further derogation - that of an ideal both men shared, which was that the municipalities of the future should utilise increasing land-values to improve the collective lot.

Under present EU legislation, there is a general derogation which allows some decreases provided that they are not significant - defining significant as losses which exceed 10% of a reference level - to be set by the member states themselves.

It is not a derogation but only a definition to say that workable theatricality is the measure of successful playwriting.