derogate

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

The reverence belonging to religion will not derogate from the dignity of science.

From The Relations of Science and Religion The Morse Lecture, 1880 by Henry Calderwood

When men are established in any kind of dignity, 'tis thought a breach of modesty for others to derogate any way from it, and question the authority of men who are in possession of it.

From Sound Mind or, Contributions to the natural history and physiology of the human intellect by John Haslam

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

If ever this religion shall be impaired, the fault be with those who have derogated from their great prerogative, and forgotten to make illustrious by example what they have inherited illustrious by descent.

From The Fortunes Of Glencore by Charles James Lever

“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

He was, moreover, a malade imaginaire; a querulous, selfish, tyrannous fellow; always bewailing his hard fate, and the sacrifice he had made in so far derogating from his rank as to marry an opera-singer.

From That Unfortunate Marriage, Vol. 3 by Frances Eleanor Trollope