derogate - use in sentences

Object

  • right: That you will not take any action which would derogate www.godulike.co.uk rights in and to their intellectual property or content.

Modifying Another Word

  • not: A principle of construction is that general words do not derogate from specific words.
  • only: These agreements may derogate only from the provisions of Articles 14 to 16 and 18 to 21.

Preposition: from

  • provision: These agreements may derogate only from the provisions of Articles 14 to 16 and 18 to 21.
  • article: What we were discussing last year was whether to derogate from article 5 of the European convention.
  • right: Several European states long faced with recurring terrorist activity have not considered it necessary to derogate from Convention rights.

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