Sentence examples for to derogate from inspiring English sources
verb
To partially repeal (a law etc.).
It would be implemented by introducing a "presumption to derogate" from the ECHR in warfare.
Christianity, with its emphasis on the afterlife, has always had a tendency to derogate earthly living as a kind of spectral vanity.
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.
"I'm not going to derogate it," he said of the St. Florian design, "but something's missing: the actual sense of the level of bravery and dedication".
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.
When I discussed complaints about that article with New York Times staffers, I was told it wasn't intended to derogate the other paper but merely to point out that its readers were losing heart.
But in the proposal the Commission argues that, given the "grave risks associated with the dissemination of terrorist content", states could be allowed to "exceptionally derogate from this principle under an EU framework".
Woolf lays bare numerous examples of men's rage against women, their violence, both domestic and literary, their need to ridicule or derogate women's creative achievements in order to bolster their own self-esteem.
For this reason, Karthigesu J. found section 37(1) to be unconstitutional since the nexus between the classification and section 37(1)'s objective was not reasonable enough to justify derogating from Article 12(12.
If she let some power to Chance in derogating her decrees, it was more to shorten than to lengthen those first limits set by her, as familiar examples show.
Naturally, Leibniz sees the principle of plentitude as being inconsistent with the existence of a barren void or interspersed vacua: [T]o admit the void in nature is ascribing to God a very imperfect work … I lay it down as a principle that every perfection which God could impart to things, without derogating from their other perfections, has actually been imparted to them.
