How To Use Derogation In A Sentence

  • What a derogation to have to travel 'business class'! The Times Literary Supplement
  • The State Department often asserts, falsely, that the signing of a treaty “ad referendum” obliges the U.S. to do nothing in derogation of the treaty terms during its pendency before the Senate. Optimism Watch: Instapundit/Israel/Obama edition. | RedState
  • Women who have a sense of personal inadequacy may project their views about themselves to a lack of trust and derogation of women in general.
  • And they didn't ask for or get, adequate derogations.
  • Both hussy and housewife have their origin in Old English huswif, but hussy has undergone semantic derogation.
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  • It suggests that you can have outgroup derogation without ingroup love prejudice.
  • Intensive negotiations over the past year have failed to obtain any derogations which would allow the continuation of the 35 to 40 boat sea angling events in County Sligo, Mayo and Galway.
  • The courts, as protectors of such abiding freedoms, must be ever vigilant against derogations from them.
  • But the archbishop would none of that, alleging how it should be a derogation to the sée apostolike and his metropoliticall dignitie, to stand before the king in iudgement, or anie other temporall magistrate. Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (5 of 12) Henrie the Second
  • His way of reasoning is always his own, sometimes sublime and heavenly, so as not to be reduced unto the common rules of our arts and sciences, without a derogation from its instructive, convictive, and persuasive efficacy. Pneumatologia
  • ‘Both of these derogations were exceptional and were in response to the conditions which existed at the time’.
  • Unlike the public-service and official-authority exceptions, however, the scope of these derogations is not determined solely by the Court, but has been further defined in secondary legislation.
  • Others were to have derogations until they satisfied the criteria, while the British and Danes negotiated opt-outs allowing them to remain outside unless they should choose to join.
  • That was the whole point of the mechanism of derogation provided by article 15. Times, Sunday Times
  • There could be no derogation from that entitlement by contractual arrangement. Times, Sunday Times
  • Capital must be protected as other property rights, but not in derogation of adverse impacts on the rights of individual living people and living biological systems that have existential value beyond the market. Jonathan Granoff: The Human Capacity for Creativity and Destruction: How Will It All Play Out?
  • Under the recommendation, key legal documents will be translated but, for now, there is a derogation from the rule that requires European institutions to translate all acts into official languages.
  • The semantic derogation of women fulfils a dual function: it helps to construct female inferiority and it also helps to confirm it.
  • The technical European legal maximum alcoholic strength for wines that have had no alcohol added is 15 per cent, but derogations are frequently made at this upper limit too, notably for Italy's strongest wines such as Amarone.
  • That is, low-power parents engaged in more verbal derogation of children than did high-power parents after being primed to think in terms of competition.
  • Some sections of the public are now trained to feast on other people's downfalls and derogation.
  • For more than a century, we can trace a consistent biological derogation of women, by men, right up to the present.
  • If the Council deems any derogation from the common law useful, it ought to send a postulatum to the pope. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss
  • They also hope pragmatic derogation of the Climate Change Levy can help boost supplies to commercial and industrial customers.
  • Others agreed that derogation might not be needed. Times, Sunday Times
  • Still, in order to ensure that the derogation from common law would not be excessive, it was deemed appropriate to limit the duration of the monopoly.
  • Hostile behaviors range from criticism or derogation to actual physical aggression such as pushing or hitting.
  • It has used immigration legislation that is inappropriate for indefinite detention, and it has sought derogations from human rights legislation that cannot be justified except in the short term.
  • Did you say to men: "˜Worship me and my mother as gods in derogation of Allah '? Darwin Strips Reality of Purpose?
  • I loved the sly derogation of pernicious patriotism. Times, Sunday Times
  • Refusing to ratify is no longer an option: the only way to unpick this will be by way either of complete renegotiation or of entering into a derogation of the Treaty. Some Euro Gobbets
  • Some would require a derogation from the European Convention on Human Rights.
  • This derogation from representation is balanced against the need for independence from the passing passions that can excite legislators.
  • But some general principles can be discerned, even if only at the level of the rhetoric of English criminal law (since there are often several exceptions or derogations in practice).
  • They also hope pragmatic derogation of the Climate Change Levy can help boost supplies to commercial and industrial customers.
  • So, you can have derogations from application of laws to specific groups of people, but never on those bases.
  • Serious consideration should be given to such derogation in future conflicts. Times, Sunday Times
  • Antidiscrimination laws are in derogation of common law notions of freedom, and that is why many conservatives opposed them when they were first proposed, arguing that they gave minorities special rights. Balkinization
  • Parliament must be notified of the derogation and so too must the international community. Times, Sunday Times
  • D darkness of calamity dash of eccentricity dawning of recognition day of reckoning daylight of faith decay of authority declaration of indifference deeds of prowess defects of temper degree of hostility delicacy of thought delirium of wonder depth of despair dereliction of duty derogation of character despoiled of riches destitute of power desultoriness of detail [desultoriness = haphazard; random] device of secrecy devoid of merit devoutness of faith dexterity of phrase diapason of motives [diapason = full, rich, harmonious sound] dictates of conscience difference of opinion difficult of attainment dignity of thought dilapidations of time diminution of brutality disabilities of age display of prowess distinctness of vision distortion of symmetry diversity of aspect divinity of tradition domain of imagination drama of action dream of vengeance drop of comfort ductility of expression dull of comprehension duplicities of might dust of defeat Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases A Practical Handbook Of Pertinent Expressions, Striking Similes, Literary, Commercial, Conversational, And Oratorical Terms, For The Embellishment Of Speech And Literature, And The Improvement Of The Vocabulary Of Those Per
  • After all, ethnic slurs can start out as euphemisms (meant to avoid identifying anyone blatantly by nationality) before evolving into derogations.
  • Inversely, lack of assets and failure to ‘live nobly’ could in certain circumstances lead to derogation or loss of nobility.
  • But this was also why the “trust,” formerly a device for protecting widows and orphans, became a term of derogation and hatred. The Prize
  • The derogation clause cornerstone of human rights convention, the reservation of which is key issue.
  • There is provision for certain derogations in Article 5.
  • For many people, the word humility has come to signify humiliation or self-derogation. John Backman: Can Humility Change The World?
  • However, the department sought a derogation from that and that has been upheld by the Supreme Court.
  • Nevertheless, a challenge to the validity of the derogation would certainly be possible.
  • However, attitudes toward the civil rights of gay people might be directly related to measures of out-group derogation.
  • Diffuse reciprocity can take many forms, including concessions and derogations, or going out on a limb to persuade the capital for changes or a compromise.
  • Poland was given a derogation until 2017 to enable it to improve conditions. Times, Sunday Times
  • Normalcy, in this version, was conceived as full integration - without any of the surreptitious derogations and defaults of the past - into a liberalised European economy.
  • You may see my attitude as defensive and oppugnant, but I vaticinate further derogation of our incomparable tongue should such complots be permitted to unfold without denunciation. A malison on the poor of spirit.
  • It is further contended that the stationing of police officers is but a corollary to the right of exterritoriality, and that it is in no way a derogation of Chinese sovereignty. The Fight for the Republic in China
  • At their most severe, they would put suspects under house arrest, but the government would need to seek a derogation from the clause of the convention protecting freedom of movement and association.
  • Kelly concludes with a gibe at his colleagues' casual derogation of the blogs.
  • It has been an interesting exercise this year and most particularly with the availability of the various derogations on fallow or ploughed or failed crop land.
  • Ending derogation in 2012 would give them a 'significant competitive advantage'. Times, Sunday Times
  • The applicant might obtain breathing spaces before it has to apply the EU rules, but permanent derogations or opt-outs are ruled out from the beginning.
  • They call on the State to seek derogations from the E.U. where such derogations impinge on the economy of an area.
  • However, a spokesman for the Department for Transport said: ‘The derogation says we will go to metric when we choose a date.’
  • Those failing the test would remain in derogation: to all intents and purposes, they would be excluded from the new institutional framework.
  • A derogation disapplies certain Convention rights completely; a reservation qualifies the right.
  • Enthusiasm was a term of derogation among her contemporaries.
  • I don't think the prosecution should sit on their hands in court if the defence is using derogation of victims in mitigation.
  • This is an unqualified right which permits of no derogation.
  • The Liberal Democrats will today strike out against the government's plans for the house arrest of suspected terrorists by saying they will oppose the measure in the Lords, arguing that it requires derogation from the European convention on human rights. February 2005
  • You may see my attitude as defensive and oppugnant, but I vaticinate further derogation of our incomparable tongue should such complots be permitted to unfold without denunciation. Archive 2008-10-01
  • He concludes with a gibe at his colleagues' casual derogation of the blogs.
  • any derogation of the common law is to be strictly construed

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