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Example sentences for: relegate

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These unfortunate circumstances threatened to relegate Las Vegas to the status of a small desert community that could no longer support its 3000 residents.
The Senate had decided to "roll back 50 years of progress on real efforts to stem the nuclear proliferation," lamented Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle of South Dakota, calling it "a definitive vote that said, 'Around the world, we relegate leadership on nuclear proliferation to somebody else.
The headlines at the Washington Post and the New York Times mention that the vote to do so was along strict party lines (Republicans voting yes, Democrats voting no), while USA Today and the Los Angeles Times relegate this news to the small print.
Some questions: Why does the NYT headline only mention the drop in black admissions and relegate the drop for Hispanics to the subhead?
Israel's fall would relegate Jews to curious obscurity--somewhat like the Amish.