Robinson took the decision to demote Ally Hogg to vice-captain after Blair's impressive leadership on Scotland duty.
Likewise, your manager might give you a test challenge to reconfirm her decision to demote or fire you.
Terry, who has been replaced by fellow defender Rio Ferdinand, said he abided by Capello's decision to demote him.
Demotions, explains Paul, should never taken lightly as there are legal issues involved when deciding to demote an employee.
Small wonder that Mrs May did her level linguistic best this week to demote a time-dated political promise to an open-ended aim.
However, Google has been forced to demote certain websites in its search rankings, amid criticism it was easier to find piracy sites over legitimate music stores.
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Similarly, the investigation focused on the allegation that Google altered its search algorithms to demote certain vertical websites in an effort to reduce or eliminate a nascent competitive threat.
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EU's new Amsterdam treaty, which came into force on May 1st, gives him power to veto candidates he thinks unsuitable, and also to demote commissioners who disappoint him in office.
For example, China can directly link the amount of U.S. treasury holdings with U.S. arms sales to Taiwan and require international credit rating agencies to demote U.S. treasuries to force the United States to raise interest rates.
Some donors are thought to have asked Mr Kibaki to sack the education minister, George Saitoti, a hangover from the Moi era, and to demote Chris Murungaru, the inept but powerful internal security minister who heads the Mount Kenya group.
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After last summer's reshuffle Downing Street let it be known that Mr Blair's decision in effect to demote the chancellor's (unrelated) friend Nick Brown, from chief whip to agriculture secretary, and to put Mr Byers in the Treasury, was intended to clip the chancellor's wings.
This will give him the right to block nominees with no evident talents for a commissioner's job, and to demote lousy ones once in office. (Next year's constitutional conference might give him the power to sack them outright.) But governments could respond bitterly all the same if the commissioner involved is theirs.
Staying out of the euro would demote Britain to an "outer tier of lesser influence" which would weaken Britain "enormously".
For the past week the Bush team has done little to quell the rumour that Mr Bush would demote the job from cabinet level (a position that it has held since 1975).
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