However, the substantive argument here is worth spelling out, and it is that leaders punish dissent with demotion in order to discourage further rebellion.
No positive evidence would ever be available to motivate the demotion of a previously dominant faithfulness constraint below a markedness constraint.
Our accounts thus fully complied with the optimality theoretic principles of richness of the base and constraint demotion.
In the narrowing of this distance, domesticated pragmatism sees and heralds a demotion of politics: the politics of big dreams and big alternatives.
This is quite similar to the mechanism of promotion and demotion for handling threats.
Since personal passives exhibit both demotion and promotion, they provide no basis for adjudicating between these choices.
Standing outside the official administrative hierarchy, a clerk was not subject to the administrative process of promotions and demotions and to changes in assignations.
The blow had immediate ramifications : executions, demotions, and transfers followed.
