derogation

Examples

• All

• Canada's specific derogations from the Agreement relate to cultural industries and services.

  Academic text (1997)

• Representative Delano expressed his concern that the bill conferred new legislative powers upon Congress in derogation of the States.

  Academic text (2002)

• Why was Canada taking a derogation from a provision that supposedly did not exist?

  Academic text (1997)

• Because the U.S. view is that you have made commitments, and you can take specific derogations on cultural industries.

  Academic text (1997)

• Not only the ICCPR, but most regional human rights agreements contain derogation clauses.

  Academic text (2016)

• Consequently, in derogation of the common law, courts recognized a negligence standard of liability for uses under legislative authorization.

  Academic text (1998)

• The second referendum, held on December 13, 1992, passed with 67 percent approval of derogation amid 83 percent turnout.

  Academic text (1998)

• In Chile, the Program of Government, drawn up by the Concertacion, clearly called for the "derogation" of the 1978 amnesty and prosecution of those responsible for "atrocious crimes" against lives, liberty, and personal integrity.

  Academic text (1992)

• Eventually, Sanguinetti's Colorado faction in Congress—which had voted for Law 16.211—campaigned for its partial derogation as opinion polls demonstrated rising support for the referendum.

  Academic text (1998)

• The new law included a derogation that reduced the penalties for certain minor offenses.

Synonyms

E

evisceration

vsderogation

• Formal

1 9.2

Weakening a law or idea by taking away its main power

is a legal, partial reduction of a law's force often by later legislation

How Weakened

to repeal

• Formal

143 4.3

derogation

• Formal

1 9.9

amendment

963 3.9

modification

50 3.6

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology