View example sentences, synonyms and word forms for Derogate.
Derogate meaning
To partially repeal (a law etc.). | To detract from (something); to disparage, belittle. | To take away (something from something else) in a way which leaves it lessened.
Example sentences (6)
These Covid-19 Regulations purport in their intent and execution to derogate, abrogate, and infringe fundamental rights and freedoms declared in sections four and five of the Constitution.
We want to work and not find ourselves finding a stage to derogate the late President.
A critical stage is "any stage of the prosecution, formal or informal, in court or out, where counsel's absence might derogate from the accused's right to a fair trial".
Article 15 - derogations Article 15 allows contracting states to derogate from certain rights guaranteed by the Convention in time of "war or other public emergency threatening the life of the nation".
Both covenants allowed states to derogate some rights.
Signatory states to the Convention can only derogate from the rights contained in Article 2 for deaths which result from lawful acts of war.