How To Use Nugatory In A Sentence
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In fact, of course, the amount of government money used to fund such marginal causes is nugatory; but fantasy requires only the smallest provocation, and has little use for reality.
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As soon as the lords were out of Henry's reach, the Scots Estates demanded modifications in the proposed treaty which would have made it nugatory from the English point of view.
England under the Tudors
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The principle does not involve in my opinion that it is part of the judicial function to treat as nugatory any step whatever which a taxpayer may take with a view to the avoidance or mitigation of tax.
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In my opinion, people who opine about the "merely aesthetic," who find aesthetic values "nugatory" unless they are subservient to a higher principle of judgment, manifestly disdain art except as an illustrative aid, a utilitarian convenience.
Art and Culture
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From my own experience, their sensation and size is so nugatory that they can often be forgotten and by the time you feel one making its way down the pipe, it's already bouncing around in your underwear or careening down your pant leg.
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The third point is really this: that it would render your Lordship's view of what the legal position is entirely nugatory, if before the local authority made its appropriate decision, the building was knocked down.
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In essence, the applicants submit that unless such a course is adopted and the matter is dealt with expeditiously, any relevant rights relating to the special leave application or arising from them will be rendered nugatory.
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The other was the monitoring of large and extended periods of sewage pollution because at a point that level of sewage pollution rendered nugatory all the efforts of purification from the depuration system.
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The random use of extravagant superlatives is silly and nugatory.
Times, Sunday Times
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As TV and the Internet converge into something generically known as broadband, the distinctions between the two will soon become nugatory from a consumer point of view.
The Revolution Will Be Televised
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I have also had people tell me personally that this is both a turn off and makes sensation nugatory, in a way that was designed to elicit shame.
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Meanwhile the actual costs of BP's environmental initiatives to date have been nugatory, while the effect of improving its relations with the public has been invaluable.
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No paternalistic corporatism for us - instead the bracing reality of a private pension scheme hitched to a declining equity market and a nugatory state pension.
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a nugatory law
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This is at least, one supposes, predicated on the recognition that the Right's symbolic resources are pretty nugatory.
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These aspects of military life do not, of course, render entirely nugatory in the military context the guarantees of the First Amendment.
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Thus even if George's secondary argument were rendered nugatory by Spahr's objection, his primary argument would still vindicate the public appropriation of ground rent.
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If a third party by such independent act renders nugatory a court order of whose existence he is aware, why should he not be liable for contempt as he would be if he had actively assisted the named person to defeat the operation of the order?
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The amount of paperwork changes that would have to be effected are nugatory.
Times, Sunday Times
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The 1792 Act removed the legal bar to Catholics holding corporate office, but inasmuch as corporations continued to decline to admit them to the freedom, this was a nugatory achievement.
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As I say, unlike the rest of the bill, which is the Government's alleged response to the Ngati Apa case, this aspect of it would simply have had a nugatory effect without the Supplementary Order Paper.
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No one makes you feel more like the nugatory little ninny that you are than a disciple of Concordia women's studies, class of '86.
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Committee are empowered to conduct the current business of the revenue department without reference to the Supreme Council, and only _report to the board such extraordinary occurrences, claims, and proposals as may require the special orders of the board_; that even the instruction to report to the board in extraordinary cases is nugatory and fallacious, being accompanied with limitations which make it impossible for the said board to decide on any questions whatsoever: since it is expressly provided by the said Warren Hastings, _that, if the members of the
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 09 (of 12)
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I also remind myself that in Burgundy Royale it was pointed out that special circumstances may arise where a subject matter of the proposed appeal will be lost without a stay, resulting in a nugatory appeal.
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The "aesthetic canons of legitimacy and achievement," which Helen Vendler observes and attempts to advance, are "nugatory" unless they buttress these cultural pillars.
Politics and Literature
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In this telling, tactical excellence and the considerable courage of frontline troops are forever being rendered nugatory by failed leadership.
Bing West's "The Wrong War," on Afghanistan strategy
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In the present case, I find that the attendance of the applicant at the Trustee's solicitors' offices to inspect documents on the two-day period in December, 2002, was rendered nugatory.
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The word ‘necessary’ is considered as controlling the whole sentence, and as limiting the right to pass laws for the execution of the granted powers, to such as are indispensable, and without which the power would be nugatory.
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In Briscoe's case the court made the prohibition of bills of credit nugatory.
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There should be little doubt that these men personally believed much of the racist arguments they delivered, but it may be overstating the case somewhat to suggest that all other concerns were nugatory.
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Jules Galdea explained to us that these revolving fan-like wheels on top of the cars destroyed atmospheric pressure, or what is generally understood by the term gravitation, and with this force thus destroyed or rendered nugatory the car is as safe from falling to one side or the other from the single rail track as if it were in a vacuum; the fly wheels in their rapid revolutions destroying effectually the so-called power of gravitation, or the force of atmospheric pressure or whatever potent influence it may be that causes all unsupported things to fall downward to the earth's surface or to the nearest point of resistance.
The Smoky God, or: A Voyage to the Inner World
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It looks like a nugatory technical tweak.
Times, Sunday Times
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Yesterday's term was nugatory, which is defined as:
Define That Term #45
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This opinion was in practice formulated based on the nugatory answer to a linguistic conception that whether a music segment is clearly signified is justified on the basis of its signified relations.
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Since it would normally suffer no loss or damage as a result of corruption, there was now no incentive for an exporter to comply with the anti-corruption procedures, which were thereby rendered nugatory.
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I spent yesterday writing the icky sequences of the WIP and the end is in sight for it and I decided that my celebration would be to keep 'nugatory' alive in my vocabulary.
Even in a little thing
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Although it is true that the applicant does not satisfy the onus of demonstrating that the application for special leave will be rendered nugatory, he has raised a doubt which I am unable to resolve with respect to financial matters.
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There was a shifting system of quasi-independent states concerned to maintain or improve their positions in a struggle to control the national government, whose authority these very rivalries prevented from being more than nugatory.
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All those applications were made nugatory by the respondents and we claim that the child was taken out of Australia unlawfully because there was no specific order.
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Such desanctification has the effect of rendering nugatory everything Americans have been indoctrinated to believe.
Who's your nanny?
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No one could get a Resource Management Act consent if I had an existing use to do something that would be rendered nugatory by that Resource Management Act consent.
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Under frontier conditions, observes Carver, the distinction, so crucial to George's position, between property in land and property in other things, seems nugatory.
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The diverse problems of succession and authority which face the brothers, the audience, and the poet reflect upon one other throughout, and this self-awareness renders nugatory the traditional criticism of Statius as derivative.
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An exercise of the power so as to exclude or restrict the entitlement of all of the beneficiaries in respect of some part of the land subject to the trust would render section 12 nugatory to that extent.
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This may of course be true, and MacDonald is entitled to say that the issue of whether his results are anti-Semitic is nugatory, from a social-science point of view, by comparison with the issue of their truth content.
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He added that to interpret the Act that everybody who contemplated legal action was prohibited from requesting access would be to render the Act nugatory for the very purpose for which it was promulgated, he said.
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In principle, similarly, a testator should not be permitted to render his dependants' statutory rights nugatory by covenants to make bequests by will.
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Moreover, non-ratification of the Convention by any of the range states of some of the species listed on Appendix I means that the Convention's provisions for their protection are nugatory.
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So, while Hollingworth's rebuttal is mentioned on his website and remains in the vestiges of cyberspace for those willing to peruse it, there is something nugatory about it.
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Moreover, as Mr McManus pointed out, if ‘airport’ has so restricted a definition, the ability of an airport operator to make byelaws under section 63 is so curtailed as in practice to be virtually nugatory.
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First of all, the sums involved in the new savings accounts are nugatory.
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The state interest in prosecuting those who willfully evade their taxes is of great importance, and we should be careful to avoid rendering nugatory the state's ability to investigate and obtain evidence from these offences.
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The threat was of course carried out in Iraq - with the nugatory results just mentioned.
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Moreover, if we were to offer appeal rights on applications which could not succeed, then more nugatory work would be created for the new appeal service, causing delays to claimants who had a justifiable case.
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Sorry, I just had to get 'nugatory' into a sentence.
Even in a little thing
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Given that I have also shown that its practical impact upon children's wellbeing is nugatory, there seems to be no satisfactory justification for its retention.