Demote

Usage examples of relegate.

It is another key discovery that the old seers made, but in their aberration they relegated it to oblivion until it was rescued by the new seers.

The rest of the Alaunt had been relegated to the kitchens while both MorningStar and StarDrifter fretted outside in the corridor.

The atheling was relegated to the milling crowd on the floor, where he was almost impossible to defend properly.

He was not quite ready to relegate this frustrating biped to that category.

In fact, events and recent history had relegated the short-lived invasion of the Two Arm to the back bubbler, so to speak.

Right at the front was Didine, shaking her head, affronted at being relegated to the role of spectator, she who, when all was said and done, had been the prime mover in the affair.

I believe that I can assure Himbo Petey that your crew is going to fully pay its way without anyone being relegated to roustabout or janitorial duty too frequently.

Unsure of his authority and uncomfortable in the mess, he is failing, and his failure seems assured When he is relegated to a tedious jop in the baggage train.

In the office of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in Atlanta, a Spelman College student named Ruby Doris Smith, who had been jailed during the sit-ins, expressed lier anger at the way women were relegated to the routine office work, and she was joined in her protest by two white women in SNCC, Sandra Hayden and Mary King.

Apparently assigned the central role of the hero about to die, Lik finds that even death relegates him to the periphery.

No ontology, except a transcendent one, can relegate humanity to individuality.

The unilateral declaration of inde pendence was referred to, but only briefly, and even the Overseas Service relegated it to a late spot in the World News.

Later cases were to settle further that the enactment of a national bankruptcy law does not invalidate State laws in conflict therewith but serves only to relegate them to a state of suspended animation with the result that upon repeal of the national statute they again come into operation without reenactment.

The chess set had been relegated to the far end of the table, and Maslin sat at the table with p4pers scattered about him.

That implies that trade in the eastern Overdark is just about at a standstill, or at least relegated to the coastal trade.