How To Use Abrogate In A Sentence

  • In 1948, the Soviets, in an attempt to abrogate agreements for Four-Power control of the city, blockaded Berlin.
  • We need a way to abrogate Supreme Court decisions that declare to be unconstitutional statutes or practices that have coexisted with the constitutional provision in question for many years and were never considered incompatible before. The Volokh Conspiracy » Federalism Restoration Amendment: Take 2
  • The normal privilege against self-incrimination is abrogated by the terms of section 31 in such proceedings.
  • That principle places limitations on the power of Parliament to legislate to abrogate or undermine those fundamental rules.
  • At present ten is the term allowed for afterthought; and when the regulation was made, all the men of abilities were invited to give their opinion whether it were better to abrogate or modify it. Letters written during a short residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark
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  • God, have rendered that relief physically impossible; and yet he would abrogate the poor-laws by an act of the legislature, in order to take away that _impossible_ relief, which the laws of God deny, and which the laws of man _actually_ afford. The Spirit of the Age Contemporary Portraits
  • On returning to Madagascar, both sides abrogated the agreement.
  • This custom was abrogated years ago.
  • The employees submitted that the Premier Plan and the associated trust could not be separated and the merger could not lawfully abrogate the trust rights to which they were entitled.
  • Our county, parish and town councillors all need to see this if they do not wish to abrogate their duty to us, their constituents.
  • [260] The Authority notes that the Court of Appeal in Moonen v Film and Literature Board of Review [2000] 2 NZLR 9 suggested a five step approach to use "when it is suggested that the provisions of another Act abrogate or limit [freedom of expression]". ScreenTalk
  • The pro-slavery compromise of the Constitution which required the rendition of fugitive slaves was abrogated.
  • In the circumstances, it seems extraordinarily delinquent on the part of the regulators to abrogate their collective responsibilities in this area.
  • The normal privilege against self-incrimination is abrogated by the terms of section 31 in such proceedings.
  • In agreement with a tumor suppressor function, HD-PTP expression inhibits ras-mediated transformation of NIH-3T3 cells; this effect is abrogated by deletion of its PTP domain as well as by incorporation of a C / S mutation suggesting that HD-PTP catalytic activity regulates this function PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
  • To reduce the threat from INF-range missiles, we must either expand the INF Treaty's membership or abrogate it entirely so that we can rebuild our own deterrent capabilities. A Cold War Missile Treaty That's Doing Us Harm
  • The rule has been abrogated by mutual consent.
  • Private chases created by tenants-in-chief since 1154 outside their own demesnes were likewise abrogated, in accordance with the provisions of the Forest Charter.
  • Accordingly, it is not within the competence of the Rules Committee, to abrogate the common law.
  • We also find that PMA and LPS increase the level of hres mRNA while pyrrolidine dithiocarbamate (PDTC), which is an inhibitor of Sp1 binding, abrogates the basal, and also PMA/LPS induced resistin mRNA levels. PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
  • That they lost this concreate [tr. note: sic] ability through the fall is no reason why God should change or abrogate His Law. Luther Examined and Reexamined A Review of Catholic Criticism and a Plea for Revaluation
  • Much of Europe still sees him as a unilateralist, the president who came into office determined to abrogate this or that treaty.
  • This section abrogates the common law principle, historically enshrined in the Judges' Rules, that only a defendant's voluntary statements can be relied on in a criminal trial.
  • For example, Luther described the Letter of James as an "epistle of straw," and even Calvin recognized that the ceremonial law has been "abrogated" in use. Rev. Patrick S. Cheng, Ph.D.: Evangelicals and Gays: Why Can't We All Just Get Along?
  • Tell him that all the nice bits of the Koran were "abrogated" by Allah when Islam became militarily more powerfull. journeyman On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
  • That is, to be a human being means that your right to defend yourself cannot be abrogated without self-contradiction.
  • They also used this employment instrument to abrogate any responsibility for wrongdoings against employees.
  • Largely as a result of these influential criticisms, the law was altered so that the requirement of intent was abrogated.
  • Our information is that the next Rana to be prime minister could abrogate the treaty. TANK OF SERPENTS
  • It was suggested that the mutual security treaty with Japan be abrogated.
  • For God hath abrogated his own (not only such as prefigured The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2)
  • Therefore, the executive branch will construe section 2262 not to abrogate these Presidential prerogatives. HUFFPOST HILL - Congress Gets Its Parliamentary Obstruction On
  • The next prime minister could abrogate the treaty.
  • This government has abrogated its responsibility to safeguard the most vulnerable in society.
  • Electable bodies such as Anglesey Council abrogate much of their power to people who act as monarchs, and then waste much of their time and efforts in factional infighting. The Anglesey Question
  • Under that logic, the entire concept of obscenity has become abrogated and essentially null and void.
  • The mainstream media have abrogated their responsibility to deal with the facts.
  • He told police he was angered by Mr. Taseer's efforts to abrogate the country's strict blasphemy laws. Slain Pakistani Governor Buried
  • That's it: from now on, every prelude and postlude gets listed in the church bulletin as "Abrogated Pedagogy." posted by Matthew @ 9: 56 AM Archive 2009-09-01
  • A secular court has abrogated to itself a right to strike at the heart of what defines a Jew according to Halacha, which is in my opinion an outrage. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
  • It was the first time in Canadian legislative history that the national constitution had been amended to abrogate entrenched rights.
  • Electable bodies such as Anglesey Council abrogate much of their power to people who act as monarchs, and then waste much of their time and efforts in factional infighting. Archive 2009-08-01
  • Voreqe and his regime will never accept the court ruling as it went against their wishes so no doubt they were always going to manipulate the ailing President to abrogate the Constitution as their last resort of holding on to power and to bring about their illegal and illegitimate designs on the government and people of Fiji. Global Voices in English » Fiji’s President voids constitution, calls for elections in five years
  • They're hypocrites who want to force their views upon the world and then abrogate responsibility for the consequences.
  • In Bolivia, the leftist government of Evo Morales government moved to abrogate contracts of foreign energy companies like Brazil's Petrobras. Brazil Makeover Helped Humala Shed His Chávez Image
  • It was suggested that the mutual security treaty with Japan be abrogated.
  • But it was long ere these scandalous and immoral sports could be abrogated; — the rude multitude continued attached to their favourite pastimes, and, both in England and Scotland, the mitre of the Catholic — the rochet of the reformed bishop — and the cloak and band of the Calvinistic divine — were, in turn, compelled to give place to those jocular personages, the Pope of The Abbot
  • Treatment B inhibitor pyrollidine dithiocarbamate or the resveratrol analog CAY10512 abrogated this response. Journal of Biological Chemistry current issue
  • We also find that PMA and LPS increase the level of hres mRNA while pyrrolidine dithiocarbamate (PDTC), which is an inhibitor of Sp1 binding, abrogates the basal, and also PMA/LPS induced resistin mRNA levels. PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
  • Is there no concept of duty that investments banks won't abrogate for profit?
  • At the current Moscow summit, the word abrogate is used by the Clinton briefers only to say what they would not do and what the Republicans might do. The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time
  • It is true that the Employees Liability Act abrogated that right, but at the same time it gave a right for the employer to proceed against the employee's insurer if there was one.
  • Production was not abrogated by inhibitors of cyclooxygenases, xanthine oxidase, nitric oxide synthases, and mitochondrial enzymes.
  • Our information is that the next Rana to be prime minister could abrogate the treaty. TANK OF SERPENTS
  • In 1975, Moscow decided to abrogate this agreement.
  • The pro-slavery compromise of the Constitution which required the rendition of fugitive slaves was abrogated.
  • The call to holiness through fasting has never been abrogated, that is, done away with, by the Catholic Church. Catholic Exchange
  • Not reporting the expected effect of such an approach on costs abrogates our responsibility to the community.
  • The bond between husband and wife is somehow contained under the chuppah, while the ability to abrogate this bond is concretized in the divorce document.
  • They have abrogated their duty to the country.
  • Since 1991, the government has abrogated this responsibility.
  • Section 1 of the Suicide Act 1961 abrogated the rule that made suicide criminal.
  • Soglia (Institut, Canon, II, 12) says "The law of tithes can never be abrogated by prescription or custom, if the ministers of the Church have no suitable and sufficient provision from other sources; because then the natural and divine law, which can neither be abrogated not antiquate, commands that the tithe be paid. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon
  • The pro-slavery compromise of the Constitution which required the rendition of fugitive slaves was abrogated.
  • Whatever the reason, the government has obligations under international law that it cannot abrogate.
  • The rule has been abrogated by mutual consent.
  • Largely as a result of these influential criticisms, the law was altered so that the requirement of intent was abrogated.
  • His bankruptcy or winding-up usually abrogates the agreement, and may restore to the bank its right to combine the accounts without notice.
  • abrogate" the peace treaty which the Hashemite Kingdom concluded with Israel in 1994. The Earth Times Online Newspaper
  • The treaty was abrogated in 1929.
  • Largely as a result of these influential criticisms, the law was altered so that the requirement of intent was abrogated.
  • Two more acts followed in 1861 and 1863, repealing hundreds of old laws; these acts and subsequent legislation abrogated much of Magna Carta.
  • Except at the border, where you abrogate any hint of humanity whatsoever? Border crossings: Peter Watts and Singapore — Fusion Despatches
  • The more I ponder these simple points the more it seems likely that there will either be gigantic loopholes or the GMC will be forced to break its promise and abrogate the rights of retired doctors.
  • Our information is that the next Rana to be prime minister could abrogate the treaty. TANK OF SERPENTS
  • If a regime abrogated the rights to life, liberty, and property, its subjects could overthrow it and choose a new one.
  • Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance. Ambrose Bierce 
  • A positive precept is right because it is commanded, and ceases to be obligatory when abrogated; a moral precept is commanded eternally, because it is eternally right. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
  • Both governments voted to abrogate the treaty.
  • In the absence of a clear express intent to abrogate rights and obligations - rights of the highest importance to the individual - those rights remain in force.
  • The next prime minister could abrogate the treaty.
  • Monsignor Kuriakose B. claimed that the Inter Caetera bull had been "abrogated" by two acts that defied the pope's anathema: First, "the unsanctioned and immediate expansion of the territory of Brazil to the west well beyond the treaty of Tordesilla;" second, "the colonization of North America and the Caribbean by the King of France. AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed
  • Now I do not broach the abstract question of equality: I am willing to admit that in the eye of our Maker we are, and before the law ought to be, all equal -- that is to say, _ought all to have an equal chance_; but to abolish the idea of subordination in the employed to the employer, and to abrogate the relation of dependence of the servant upon her or his master or mistress, would simply be to reverse the teachings of inspiration and nature. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 3, September 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
  • Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance. Ambrose Bierce 
  • Have those verses been "abrogated" out of the present Qur'an? Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
  • The Parliament of this country, elected by free men and women on the basis of free discussions which cannot be abrogated, is not just a club of good fellows who ought to do the nation's business in the shortest possible time and with the least possible contention; rather it is a body which should examine every proposal that is made to make sure that it is in the country's best interest; it is a body in which attention should be drawn to proposals that ought to be made but which are often overlooked, unless an election is just around the corner; it is a body which should scrutinize expenditures and inquire into the administration of public affairs to make sure that fairness, justice and equity are maintained. The Role of the Opposition in Parliament
  • The rule has been abrogated by mutual consent.
  • In the course of a long conversation, the governor's longtime chief strategist agreed that Davis had abrogated our agreement.
  • Largely as a result of these influential criticisms, the law was altered so that the requirement of intent was abrogated.
  • It's just extenuated the rules being abrogated by colleges and … these kids are worth $30-$40-$50 million while still 18 years of age. Non-college players dominate NBA Finals rosters

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