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Mayune often plays practical jokes to demean Himeno and tattles on her to her mother.

While Hoyle argued that Bell should have been included in the prize, Bell said, " I believe it would demean Nobel Prizes if they were awarded to research students, except in very exceptional cases, and I do not believe this is one of them.

Hence to make ends meet, they sometimes are forced to resort to methods which demean the sanctity

Judge Crabb stated about those supporting the federal law designating the National Day of Prayer, " adopting defendants ' view of standing would allow the government to have unrestrained authority to demean members of any religious group without legal consequence.

This practice was considered to give the women more power and was not meant to demean them.

* Any act by deeds or words that demean, humiliate or shame the natural worth and dignity of a person as a human being ;

During his trial powerful family connections worked on his behalf, and he later benefited from the Christian family's generally fruitful efforts to demean Bligh's character and present the mutiny as an understandable reaction to an unbearable tyranny.

Unwilling perhaps to demean himself by bowing to Khalid, he ordered his followers to scatter and himself apparently moved away across the desert alone with his family.

" ( p. 21 ) In preaching and promoting Islam, for example, it is very important not to demean Islam by " searching for resemblances " between Islam and the " filth " and " the rubbish heap of the West.

Maybe what it really means is tell the truth, don't demean our troops, or you can be sure somebody like the Swift Boats are gonna be right out after you.