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
But to say they are artificial does not derogate from their genius.
From Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions by John Cowper Powys
But such conjectures derogate from the character of the quality of the tree.
From Reason, The Only Oracle of Man Or a Compendius System of Natural Religion by Ethan Allen
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
We were talking of Lord Nelson, and some instances were mentioned of the egotism and vanity that derogated from his character.
From The Life of Nelson, Volume 2 The Embodiment of the Sea Power of Great Britain by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan
“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
The ball was at his feet: should it be rolled on, or fastidiously turned aside by reason of certain fantastic notions as to its derogating, in some inconceivable way, from the dignity of authorship?
From Charles Dickens as a Reader by Charles Foster Kent
