Sentence examples for often derogated from inspiring English sources

"Class envy" is often derogated as a kind of moral lapse.

We citizens, often derogated as "users" or "consumers", have much to win in a global communication space.

In short, many programs of the so-called welfare state, often derogated by conservatives as undermining family life, have rather proved a substantial – if not always successful – source of support for child-rearing.

Jobs will be created and salaries increased, sales and profits will rise, and the tax revenues from that income and profit -- so often derogated by levelers as "obscene" -- will reduce the government deficit in the long run, as Lord Keynes said.

Farcical and dystopian acts like the arrest of six people for spilling custard during street theatre often prompt observations that events like the Olympics present a "state of exception" – where standard rights are derogated in order to facilitate a spectacle.

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

In other words, unhappy people derogated the dessert they did not receive, whereas happy people felt no need to do so.

An unwanted gift from a predecessor, parent or older sibling is derogated as a hand-me-down; a happier, lasting bequest is called a legacy with legs.

(Everybody denies it, but many civil servants, derogated as bureaucrats by the elite foreign service corps, still refer to the diplomats as cookie pushers).

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.

The environmental law consultancy, ClientEarth, was concerned that the new proposal effectively derogated responsibility for urgent climate change actions agreed at COP21 to the business sector.