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
Some of our opposites go about to derogate somewhat from the binding power of that oath of the princes of Israel.
From The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) by George Gillespie
The steward suppressed, though with difficulty, a loud laugh, when he got sight of the little man, for he was afraid that laughter would derogate from his dignity.
From Tales from the German Comprising specimens from the most celebrated authors by Various
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
She never derogated from her husband's honour by the fictitious liveliness of gossip, or allowed any one to forget the peeress in the woman.
From Framley Parsonage by Anthony Trollope
“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
Without derogating from the respect I entertain for the opinion of that celebrated navigator, I may be permitted to consider this important object in a far more general point of view.
From Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 by Thomasina Ross
