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Newby also could promote or demote judges on lower courts, deciding who served as their chiefs and held prestigious committee posts.

Since then, Pluto, our beloved ninth planet, has been demoted to a dwarf planet.

Eventually, he returned to a strictly relief role, but appeared to run out gas down the stretch, posing a 4.50 ERA from July 9 to Sept. 5 before being demoted to triple-A.

And then there was the saga of them being demoted from the Europa League by Uefa for breaching multi-club ownership rules.

In July, however, they demoted their No. 5 starter to the minors without a minor league starter ready to fill in.