In the end we are all sacked and it's always awful. It is as inevitable as death following life. If you are elevated there comes a day when you are demoted. Even Prime Ministers. Alan Clark
I'd been upstaged, demoted from protagonist in my own drama to comic relief in my parents' tragedy. Alison Bechdel
I was madder than a Keebler elf getting demoted to fudge-packer. Larry the Cable Guy
People had their places, and to not understand that, to act in violation of it, demoted you from a nature nut to something even lower, a complete untouchable, basically. David Sedaris
I think many people are terribly afraid of being demoted by the Darwinian scheme from the role of authors and creators in their own right into being just places where things happen in the universe. Daniel Dennett
Matter as such has been demoted from its central role, to be replaced by concepts such as organization, complexity and information. Paul Davies