Verb (used with object), : He has been relegated to a post at the fringes of the diplomatic service. ,He relegates the less pleasant tasks to his assistant.    From Dictionary.com. 

Such internally driven choices become selection pressures, once again relegating natural selection to the back seat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dawkins Goes Limp on Free Will] Reference

Soon after, Lincoln took matters in hand, relegating.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lincoln Story Book] Reference

So is the U.S. relegating human rights to the back burner?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 7, 2009] Reference

Others say that relegating her to the role of wife is belittling.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bible's Lost Stories] Reference

Yep, just another document relegating us to the pile of inferior souls.    From Wordnik.com.  [badger Diary Entry] Reference

A once intriguing individual relegating himself to the level of LaRouche.    From Wordnik.com.  [Happy Hour Roundup] Reference

It's all Alito all the time, relegating the "Plamegate" story to the backbench.    From Wordnik.com.  [Josh Silver: Wag the Alito: Rove is Back on His Game] Reference

But, relegating derivatives to only certain institutions will not solve the whole problem.    From Wordnik.com.  [Banks, financial rules, Obama, Lincoln, derivatives] Reference

NBC carried nothing the first night, relegating Tom Brokaw's coverage to its cable network.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript - Reliable Sources: Did the Press Become Part of George W. Bush's Script? - August 5, 2000] Reference

We ` ve arrived and as of Friday, we are relegating you, the United States, to second place.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 11, 2008] Reference

How to avoid relegating women´s demands to a lower plane in a period of acute political crisis?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Laura Carlsen: Coup Catalyzes Honduran Women��s Movement] Reference

Multicultural curricula have begun relegating genocide against the Jews to just another people's story.    From Wordnik.com.  [Is It Bad For The Jews?] Reference

That tyrannical kingdom practices gender apartheid to an extreme, relegating women to an extremely low status.    From Wordnik.com.  [Let's Have a Real Apartheid Education Week] Reference

Before the 2008 season, Miami signed veteran Chad Pennington and drafted Chad Henne, relegating Beck to third string.    From Wordnik.com.  [Newly-acquired QB John Beck tries to learn the system] Reference

And they're sort of relegating the Anbar Province out in the west, which is a huge part of Iraq to a lesser priority.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 12, 2006] Reference

And they are sort of relegating the Anbar Province out in the west, which is a huge part of Iraq, to a lesser priority.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 12, 2006] Reference

And this place puts out a spread, relegating the sesame chicken, and sweet and sour pork to the nether regions of the buffet line.    From Wordnik.com.  [madrigle Diary Entry] Reference

"A lot of people view it as relegating transit to the edge of campus," said David Daddio, editor of the Rethink College Park blog.    From Wordnik.com.  [Purple Line advocates worry about U-Md. plans to alter use of Campus Drive] Reference

Increasingly, pro-choice activists are noting the political downside of relegating men to second-class status in abortion discourse.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jacob M. Appel: Transcending Ovaries: Toward Male Equality in the Abortion Debate] Reference

They were Helljumpers, the same people Silva said would ultimately win the war, relegating “freaks” like himself to the dustbin of history.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Flood]

Five weeks before the election, McCain's team kicked Meghan off her dad's campaign, relegating her to a series of pep talks at campaign offices.    From Wordnik.com.  [Meghan McCain writes new memoir, overshares a little bit more -- and here are the best parts] Reference

It is of little use for Americans for their candidates to avoid the many complex challenges of these struggles by relegating decisions of the past.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 5, 2008] Reference

Somehow he had the faculty of relegating small personal vexations to their proper place in the scheme of things -- thrusting them far into the background.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Moon out of Reach] Reference

In cities like New York, zoning laws haven't yet accounted for green roofs, relegating them to awkward spaces between traditional buildings and landscaping.    From Wordnik.com.  [Going Green on Top] Reference

By relegating them to the role of malevolent heretics, the Orthodox made the sins of the Catholics unforgivable, their behaviour inexcusable, their fate sealed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Terrorists and Freedom Fighters] Reference

Adulthood was the maturity to relinquish the rebellion against society for relegating one to his petty station in life bereft of the pleasures he sees around him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Corpus of a Siam Mosquito] Reference

It is a smart move by his campaign as it pushes the general election story-line front and centre, relegating Hillary Clinton to the third paragraph of the article.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me] Reference

Bottom line - at least for today's discussion - is that intelligent design doesn't advance our understanding, and ends up relegating the Creator/Designer to the margins.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

Already "tactical developments" were relegating the Roslavl gap from being the point of opportunity to the status of a "quiet area" where tired formations could recuperate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Barbarossa]