(a.) Of or pertaining to the people; popular; common.
Example Sentences:
(1) On that occasion, she related how Manning had punched her during a violent outburst that led to him being demoted to the rank of private.
(2) In the article, Hastings wrote: "The sacking of Michael Gove – for assuredly, his demotion from education secretary to chief whip amounts to nothing less – has shocked middle England.
(3) Disappointing results meant a demotion in the internal hierarchy, Savchuk said.
(4) Last year the supreme court ruled that demoting a woman because she is pregnant is illegal.
(5) But that was a clear demotion, unlike Hague whose decision to stand down at the election paved the way for a less onerous cabinet post.
(6) The decision follows prolonged behind-the-scenes lobbying by the music and film industries to get Google to demote the search position of sites which they say infringe their copyrights, such as the Pirate Bay.
(7) One former aide suggested the rise, fall and rise again of Chris Grayling symbolised the party's recent evolution, with a man demoted for homophobic comments now playing such a prominent role with tough talk on criminals.
(8) When the second Holyrood elections came round in 2003, Margo was demoted to fifth on the party list, making it impossible for her to be re-elected as an SNP MSP.
(9) Joyce clearly left his mark on Brenton – you can sense it in the earthy, demotic language of his early plays – but other influences were less helpful.
(10) Stripped of the captaincy in February over revelations in his private life - there will be some within in the squad who still feel overriding sense of loyalty to the absent Wayne Bridge - there must be a part of him that still resents the embarrassment his demotion generated.
(11) Google is facing a preliminary anti-monopoly probe by the European Commission into its dominant position in online browsing and digital advertising following allegations that it demotes competing websites to the lower echelons of customers' search results.
(12) By 2007, after he had been repeatedly overlooked for promotion, his relationship with Cameron soured when on 8 March he was demoted to the backbenches for making remarks perceived as racist.
(13) Clarke retained responsibility for the controversial bill when he was demoted from his post as justice secretary to minister without portfolio in the reshuffle.
(14) Staff earned points for each policy or investment they sold, and could be automatically promoted or demoted based on their sales performance, getting a pay rise or pay cut at the same time.
(15) He lost by 31 votes to Gillard's 71, and has promised to remain on the backbench and not challenge her again As part of the reshuffle, Kevin Rudd supporter Robert McClelland has been demoted to the backbench.
(16) Lloyds Banking Group has been fined £28m for putting branch staff under such pressure to sell products in order to claim bonuses or avoid being demoted that they may have mis-sold them to customers .
(17) Republican debate: Las Vegas fight night was rollicking from start to finish Read more Paul was not the only candidate to be demoted to the undercard debate.
(18) Warsi had planned to refuse the new job after being informed by the prime minister on Monday that she was being demoted.
(19) It does credit to Liam Byrne and Stephen Twigg that they have accepted their demotions with good grace.
(20) Neologisms – new words or old words given strange new meanings – are essential to the book, and pepper the dialogue, which is a brew of detective fiction demotic and techno-speak: “Hit the first strata and that’s all she wrote.
Hieratic
Definition:
(a.) Consecrated to sacred uses; sacerdotal; pertaining to priests.
Example Sentences:
(1) And beyond the physical separation, a further more insidious separation took place, where one group became artists, and the other became non-artists; where the hieratically appointed initiates talked down to the lay people.
(2) The latter are big quasi-octagonal panels that might have been carpentered for some hieratic medieval interior.
(3) The sculpture is flat, linear, hieratic, self-consciously primitive, the baby enclosed protectively in its mother's robes.