They have powerful executive presence and trust their own abilities and character enough to be vulnerable, even self-deprecate.

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By ignoring the uses to which tax revenues are put, these debates implicitly deprecate the very purpose of government.

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That point cannot be impressed forcefully enough on those inclined to deprecate what is going on in Iraq today.

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Contemporary historians of science have a tendency to deprecate the originality of the so-called scientific revolution, and to stress, instead, its continuities with medieval astrology and alchemy.

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"In the wider sense, we deprecate any forms of bigotry and sectarianism, we take a very strong view that these types of activity are unacceptable in a modern Scotland, " said Maxwell.

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