promote

Examples of demote

demote
Nonetheless, he continued to live a precarious life, being promoted and demoted constantly, depending on palace intrigues.
These demoted incumbents then went on to cast more dissenting votes in the subsequent parliament than their colleagues.
I therefore demoted those candidates that had fewer syllables than the misspelling.
A passive rule that demotes logical subjects will simply fail to apply to verbs without logical subjects.
These were the men of science whose lives could be used to demystify and demote genius.
On the contrary, she demoted him to the status of a household servant or, at best, hired help.
The logical subject is thus said to be ' demoted ' to an oblique, whereas the logical object is ' promoted ' to subject.
A certain percentage are demoted to autarky forever and are barred permanently from the credit market.
The very lack of individual fame which promoted the girl group togetherness had the unfortunate effect of demoting the performers to a position of powerlessness.
Only when this constraint was demoted could true clusters surface correctly.
Today the latter are demoted to a precarious state, objects of attack in the pursuit of political correctness.
For the boundary spanner who is demoted in this process, there are several items that must be addressed.
There can be no parameter which can demote them from their stress-relevant status.
A functional division obviously took place, promoting the subjunct and demoting the modifier function of this dual-form adverb.
On the other hand, he demoted induction and deduction to merely stages of checking the validity of an already formed hypothesis.
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