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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

But we no longer regard it from any artistic or ornamental point of view; that would be to derogate from our character as bushmen.

From Brighter Britain! (Volume 1 of 2) or Settler and Maori in Northern New Zealand by William Delisle Hay

For, while no created object can adequately symbolize Him, it would derogate from the dignity of his character and position to be a symbol of some inferior object.

From A Brief Commentary on the Apocalypse by Sylvester Bliss

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

The apostles in the constitution of elders in every church derogated nothing from their own authority, nor discharged themselves of their care.

From The Divine Right of Church Government by Sundry Ministers Of Christ Within The City Of London by

“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

Now, after all, a Miss Grainger might, without derogating too far, condescend to know a Fusilier, eh?

From A Rent In A Cloud by Charles James Lever