How To Use Abrogation In A Sentence

  • When an evil attains this extent, he is a poor citizen, a poor cowardly dallier with opinions, whatever his fighting mark may be, who can make up his mind to calmly acquiesce in establishing its permanence, or to stiffly oppose every movement and every suggestion tending in the least towards its abrogation. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 4, April, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
  • The problem, though, is that the violent verses take precedence due to something called abrogation. The Last Patriot
  • On Monday, April 20, members of United Nations Security Council called the abrogation of Fiji’s constitution and the firing of its judiciary a “step backwards” and declared the country should hold elections as soon as possible. Global Voices in English » Fiji: Diplomatic maneuverings
  • It was the genius of those early scholars to be able to reconcile the apparent contradictions in the Quran and Sunnah by resorting to "abrogation," where certain verses of the Quran "override" earlier ones. Lim Kit Siang
  • However we have also shown that abrogation of a single gene (p21) in a human tumor cell unexpectedly sensitized xenograft tumors comprised of these cells to radiotherapy while not affecting in vitro cellular radiosensitivity. BioMed Central - Latest articles
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  • In a matter so sensitive, to deny the court the capacity to take into account all the circumstances of a case, is a basic denial of justice and an abrogation of our International Treaty obligations.
  • Moreover, the abrogation of indenture contracts in 1900 eliminated the condition under which many Japanese immigrated to this country.
  • The Muslim minority views the code as an indirect abrogation of their cultural freedom.
  • It would depend on the detailed operation of the law and it is most unlikely that a blanket abrogation of legal professional privilege would survive.
  • Instead of attempting to reconcile the verses by contextualizing them in time and in the full qur'anic text, many exegetes have employed the principle of abrogation as a blunt instrument.
  • The distinguishing mental features of melancholia are a profoundly painful dejection, abrogation of interest in the outside world, loss of the capacity to love, inhibition of all activity.
  • (BTW, how can Scalia be a “textualist” when he joins the decisions requiring a demonstrated legislative record — i.e., materials outside the text of the law — of state evil before abrogation is proper?) The Volokh Conspiracy » Is the Supreme Court Conservative?:
  • Bush's doctrine of the "unitary executive," a two-word abrogation of the Constitution, dispenses with those precautions. Marty Kaplan: Torture Is Magic
  • This is an absolute abrogation of the principle of rangatiratanga inherent in the deed of settlement.
  • China regrets the abrogation of the Anti - Ballistic Missile Treaty.
  • While his view of religious history might leave something to be desired, Jasser's courage is never in doubt-as, for example when he takes on the established Sunni doctrine of naskh, or "abrogation," which holds that the later-revealed suras or "chapters" of the Qur'an trump earlier, more pacific ones. History News Network
  • By "codependence", willful blindness, lazyacquiescence, misled enthusiasm - whatever blend of abrogation of responsibility, we have contributed to this great evil. Time for repentance
  • The immediate goal would be the defeat of the Liberals by a Tory government; the next step would be the abrogation of NAFTA, something which the agreement permits on six months' notice.
  • It would involve the virtual, if not also the formal, abolition of the monarchy, since the monarchy has no other use than that of international war and intrigue; or at least it would involve the virtual abrogation of its powers, reducing it to the same status of _faineantise_ as now characterises the British crown. An Inquiry Into The Nature Of Peace And The Terms Of Its Perpetuation
  • Surrender, compromise with the regime, or a cease-fire means abandoning the path ordained by God and signifies an abrogation of the faith.
  • And despite of North Korea's repeated kind of abrogation of its commitments, China has again and again appealed for calm and reason to prevail. CNN Transcript Nov 16, 2009
  • The use of encryption would, in my opinion, be prima facia evidence of the “reasonable expectation of privacy” argument underpinning the abrogation of that right by the ISP on behalf of the subscriber. The Volokh Conspiracy » Eleventh Circuit Decision Largely Eliminates Fourth Amendment Protection in E-Mail 
  • The courts accept that abrogation of these privileges can only be made by statute but nonetheless there is considerable scope for judicial definition of limits.
  • Haskalah" moved in the same direction as eighteenth century rationalism which made for the abrogation of the historic faiths. The Menorah Journal, Volume 1, 1915
  • Importantly, disrupting the SDF-1/CXCR4 interaction prevented the recruitment of vasculogenic cells to the tumor site and thereby blocked postirradiation development of functional tumor vasculature, resulting in abrogation of tumor regrowth. PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories
  • Consequently bogeyman excuses are co-opted to obtain sanction for this unethical abrogation of a natural right even more fundamental than liberty. I, Pirate …
  • Kevin Rudd's office called it an "abrogation" of the constitution while Fiji's other big brother Woolly Days
  • After the coup of 1964, the country suffered from a deeply entrenched, repressive military dictatorship, afflicted by abrogations of human rights that included censorship, random arrests and torture.
  • In the abolition of such Biblical ordinances he laid down the principle of Abrogation which forms the basis of Islamic theology.
  • Does not the abrogation amount to subverting the justice system?
  • It had tightened its grip on power through unconstitutional legislation, abrogation of the rule of law, and crude violence.
  • The administration's arguments justifying the wholesale abrogation of civil liberties are by no means limited to an emergency response to an immediate threat.
  • For business to say that this is government's job, and that they will cooperate with regulations but otherwise be passive in addressing this threat, is an abrogation of that responsibility.
  • ‘Fast-tracking’ is a crude euphemism for the abrogation of basic civil liberties and the rapid expulsion of asylum-seekers.
  • Calvin, speaking of the abrogation of festival days in Geneva, saith, _hoc tamen testatum esse volo, si mihi delata optio fuisset, quod nunc constitutum est, non fuisse pro __ sententia dicturum. The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2)
  • The immediate goal would be the defeat of the Liberals by a Tory government; the next step would be the abrogation of NAFTA, something which the agreement permits on six months' notice.
  • China regrets the abrogation of the Anti - Ballistic Missile Treaty.

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