derogate
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One option to deal with the shortfall would be to allow Kilroot to temporarily derogate from its environmental permits though the legality and cost of that is unclear.
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2022
Producers and Lee’s estate signed a contract agreeing that “the play shall not derogate or depart in any manner from the spirit of the novel nor alter its characters,” according to The New York Times.
From Slate ● Mar. 15, 2018
The contract the parties signed states that “the Play shall not derogate or depart in any manner from the spirit of the Novel nor alter its characters.”
From New York Times ● Mar. 14, 2018
By intermingling a subject’s speech with the king’s message, he seemed to derogate from the honour and majesty of a king.
From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 by Isaac Disraeli
The recognition of the historical character of experimental science does not in any way derogate from its value, but, properly understood, gives a deeper insight into its significance.
From John Dewey's logical theory by Delton Thomas Howard
McConnell notes that early executive-legislative skirmishes over information were couched in language about congressional “requests” for information that implicitly acknowledged presidential authority, not subpoenas that derogated it.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 22, 2021
Social psychologists, including my New York University colleague Madeline Heilman, have shown that successful women in traditionally masculine roles are often derogated and disliked.
From Slate ● Dec. 11, 2020
The pressures of adapting the book also were complicated after a lawyer for Lee’s estate filed a lawsuit alleging that Sorkin’s interpretation derogated the “spirit of the novel.”
From Washington Post ● Dec. 11, 2018
The commission’s in-depth investigation opened in February 2015 showed that the scheme derogated from normal practice under Belgian company tax rules and the so-called ‘arm’s length principle’.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 15, 2016
In my humble opinion he ought long ago to have been derogated to the office of frightening sparrows in the kitchen garden.
From Uncle's dream; And The Permanent Husband by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
“That’s not a frivolous argument. But I’m not sure that’s true. I think if you want to restore the rule of law and equal justice, you don’t do it by further derogating from justice.”
From Washington Times ● Jun. 19, 2023
I don’t want to seem like I’m derogating these other films.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 3, 2021
Humans respond to feelings of threat by derogating outgroups.
From Salon ● Dec. 31, 2018
But I think in general terms this is a very derogating thing.
From Time ● Jun. 23, 2013
They may, too, without derogating from themselves, bear even the authority of such persons, if it promotes their service.
From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 03 (of 12) by Edmund Burke
