What is "demotions"

Usage examples of "demotions".

Especially when times are hard, we become desperate for encouragement, unreceptive to the litany of great demotions and dashed hopes, and much more willing to hear that we're special, never mind if the evidence is paper-thin.

It would be the last of the Great Demotions, a rite of passage for our species and a transforming event in the ancient quest to discover our place in the Universe.

That is for another time, when the sting of the Great Demotions is well behind us, when we are acclimatized to other worlds and they to us, when we are spreading outward to the stars.

If you do not confess and you are later proven guilty, there will be three demotions, which means physical labor, as you know.

If you do not confess and you are later proven guilty, there will be three demotions, which means physical labor, as you know.

The sudden arrival of an Ultron in full regalia is usually the prelude to an inconvenient inquiry, followed by punitive demotions and perhaps the temporary isolation of a world.

Among its many recent demotions, motive has lost its place in the old law enforcement triumvirate: means, motive, opportunity.

Chaumel was firm as he indicated demotions and ignored those who conceded with bad grace.

Upon returning to space, Kirk had found it necessary to convene two summary courts-martial, issue four immediate demotions, and write five severe reprimands for actions committed during the period of leave.

Two promotions for performance, two demotions for possession of narcotics.

The Party, the Federal Security Bureau, and the European Peoples' Army were maneuvering against each other in an unprecedentedly overt manner: military budgets queried, more MEPs and Party officials under suspicion or arrest, inquiries launched into FSB illegalities, rapid promotions and demotions and cashierings, military exercises proceeding without authorization, unscheduled call-ups of reservists (which, I guessed, added draft-evasion to my crimes).