Sentence examples for many derogations from inspiring English sources

As Mrs Roure's report points out, the framework decision establishes only a minimum level of harmonisation, and its effectiveness and scope have been severely limited by the many derogations it includes.

I hope we do not have many more of these derogations because they will only compound the problems we already face.

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".

Many Tories were demanding she went for a temporary derogation of human rights laws.

Derogation could only happen during war or public emergencies that threaten the life of the nation, Spurrier said, adding: "There is a dark irony in our government proposing derogation in wars of its choosing, even though many of those conflicts, like in Iraq and Afghanistan, are fought ostensibly in the name of human rights.

For many people, the word humility has come to signify humiliation or self-derogation.

America still gets more than half of its electricity from coal, but only because many older plants have been "grandfathered", and so do not have to meet strict new emissions standards a derogation that is almost certain to be struck down at some point.

When many whites referred to blacks in their speech, they hesitated to apply the noun to a person; instead of saying, "He's a black," they would say, "He's a black guy," as if the use of black as an adjective to modify guy somehow removed it from any interpretation as derogation.

Western legal systems regard individual ownership as the norm, derogations from which must be explained.

Pegler's derogations of the Roosevelts made for much better reading than his early praise.

But these should be pragmatic derogations from the principle of openness.