demotion

Examples of demoted

demoted

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

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.
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.
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.
The demoted subject may likewise be realized as an oblique.
On the other hand, he demoted induction and deduction to merely stages of checking the validity of an already formed hypothesis.
These demoted incumbents then cast more dissenting votes in the subsequent term than their more fortunate peers.
The surge in backbench dissent could, for example, be the result of actions by both demoted incumbents and poorly socialized neophytes.
Individuals who commissioned freelance work were promoted or demoted, left the organisation and retired.
It is equally true, of course, that ministers may be promoted to more powerful or higher-profile departments, such as finance and foreign affairs, or demoted to departmental backwaters.
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