How To Use Nullify In A Sentence
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Doing so would nullify one's neutrality so to speak.
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Recent inflation could nullify the economic growth of the last several years.
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Contributory negligence could reduce the monetary quantification of the defendant's liability, but it cannot legally or logically nullify it.
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The only way to counteract, or even nullify the effects of that drug is to take a dose of the antidote.
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In my opinion, if the Government bans begging, the racketeers would nullify it by using their contacts with the political parties to overcome the ban.
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The 29-year-old man has a lawsuit pending with the Tokyo District Court seeking a court decision to nullify the ministry decision.
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Their game plan was to nullify our threats.
Times, Sunday Times
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He used his broad executive powers to nullify decisions by local governments.
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While it is true that games offering over 100% payback are rare outside Nevada, this does not nullify the value of a strategy.
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The petrol price goes up by six cents a litre today, and while there's little to be done about price increases, the good news is that you can cut down on consumption, thereby nullifying the increase, without too much effort.
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With their hoodies up, they wore getaway trainers and, often, ski goggles to nullify the effects of CS gas.
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The decision to nullify the result and call for fresh elections has been met with dismay in some quarters as it is felt it will doom the province to another three months of campaigning and another period of uncertainty.
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Thus, he set about trying to nullify its effects.
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The congress has, for more than twenty years (not sure of the exact dates), in budgeting for the BATFE, required that NO funds may be expended for this purpose by the Bureau, thus nullifying this provision of the law while leaving the “rehabilitation” on the books so that they may say that they have provided for correction of errors in application of other provisions of the law.
The Volokh Conspiracy » How to “Kill the Bill”
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This is, of course, the kind of twisting of terminology that turns the meaning of a concept into its precise opposite - thereby nullifying its meaning and reality - that is the essence of Newspeak.
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How can we justify in effect canceling the Fifth Amendment, nullifying due process, and allowing for indefinite incarceration without a trial?
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An appeal was lodged against his system of proxy voting - previously validated by the JCR Executive - by the Returning Officer five minutes before the referendum was due to close, nullifying the vote.
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That helped to nullify Stoke's main threat and, although Jon Walters had an early chance that he dragged wide and Peter Crouch acrobatically volleyed over later in the first half, the home side created little else against a Valencia team that looked menacing whenever they broke forward.
Stoke City 0-1 Valencia | Europa League last-32 1st leg match report
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The Department of Agriculture unveiled controversial plans to again approve genetically modified sugar beets in time for planting next year, a move that would nullify a federal court ruling in August that invalidated the original approval issued by the USDA five years ago.
World Watch
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The Federal Communications Commission is fielding fallout from the court decision nullifying its 30% cable ownership cap.
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Their game plan was to nullify our threats.
Times, Sunday Times
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Within a year bishops were before Congress urging a constitutional amendment to nullify the decision.
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The real value in nullifying the bonuses is the message that it sends.
Is the AIG Bonus Scandal a Mere Distraction? : Law is Cool
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They knew the city might well end the practice before they could obtain a license, and they knew the courts could nullify the marriage before the ink was dry.
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Yet the distinction between this position, and the belief that states can "nullify" federal laws or even secede, seems unclear to many of the resolutions 'backers, as Perry's comments about secession demonstrated.
Matt Sledge: Palin and Perry Skirt Secession
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My opinion is that it's oversimplistic to nullify their actions by calling them victims, or tools or cannon fodder.
MIND MELD: Bad Guys We Love to Hate: The Best Film Villains in SF/F/H (with Various Videos of Villainy)
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A subsequent Supreme Court ruling classified the case and "gagged" Edmonds without ever hearing her out, effectively quashing it on the same grounds used to nullify the Karl Rove/DoJ subpoenas: that sneaky "State Secrets Act", providing top cover for agents accused of crimes in the Bush Administration without any required disclosure of evidence in the case to a court.
Why we need to learn the name Sibel Edmonds
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In a petition for cancellation filed at the USPTO, Dell puts forth three logical reasons for nullifying Psion's "netbook" trademark: abandonment, fraud, and genericness.
Dell fights back against Psion netBook trademark rampage
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Her directive nullifying an earlier decision that compelled bus operators on specified routes to use the bus station has led to the abandonment of the facility.
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‘When you withhold funds from enforcing a decision of the Supreme Court, you are in fact nullifying a decision of the Supreme Court,’ she told reporters.
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The draft order was designed to nullify the grant of the planning consent.
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In an attempt to nullify Henry Louis Gates 'lifetime of major achievement, the far-right polemicist and intellectual wannabe mocks his better thus:
Archive 2009-07-01
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If a person could figure out a way to nullify the effect in himself, perhaps with a countercharm, he could live here in absolute safety.
A Spell For Chameleon
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He may be able to nullify that disadvantage by offering a wider variety of produce.
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For a time this system worked satisfactorily, but ultimately it inosculated itself with the views it was designed to nullify, and the Fujiwara became flagrant abusers of the power handed down to them.
A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era
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It involves the power to nullify legislative acts on constitutional grounds.
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An age might have to elapse before there can be any returns on capital in the form of scarce minerals in minable quantities, the costs of whose transportation alone might nullify their value.
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Edward Lazarus, a Los Angeles lawyer and former federal prosecutor, has drawn a comparison between the state sovereignty resolutions and the Nullification Crisis of 1832-33, when South Carolina claimed the right to "nullify" unconstitutional federal law.
Matt Sledge: Palin and Perry Skirt Secession
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Recent inflation could nullify the economic growth of the last several years.
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There are no secret reservations or postscript provisoes, which nullify the boon of freedom.
The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus
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But the courts have no competence to nullify, repeal or amend the legislation in question.
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Yet movement is the very essence of being human and of the human condition which policing sets out to nullify.
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Curb asks a judge to force McGraw to turn in new material for a fifth album, bar him from signing with another label and nullify a 2001 agreement that eliminated a sixth record from McGraw's contract.
The Seattle Times
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Without being too arrogant about the way we play I thought they might try to nullify our threat out wide.
The Sun
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Travel policies always exclude any ‘pre-existing’ condition, but failing to disclose one could have the disastrous consequence of nullifying the entire policy.
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Most people consider it as much an anachronism as the Third Amendment (which deals with "quartering troops"), but with the conservative bent of the current Supreme Court, who knows how they would rule on a state which decided to "nullify" a federal healthcare system?
Chris Weigant: Emerging GOP Theme: Nullification
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If the administrative team isn't properly trained, technologies may be incorrectly deployed, nullifying their effectiveness.
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Perhaps your entire universe is on a stedding, which would serve to nullify balefire and all of the other magic.
Jaime's Challenge
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The fact that multiple causes may have effectuated the loss does not negate any single cause; the fact that multiple acts concurred in infliction of injury does not nullify any single contributory act.
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But if nothing else he gave Chris McGroaty something to think about, forcing him into more of a defensive full-back role and nullifying the threat he had posed down the flank in the first half.
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He may be able to nullify that disadvantage by offering a wider variety of produce.
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If the combined effect is less than the sum of the individual effects, the relative interaction is ameliorative, competitive or the effects are said to cancel or nullify one another.
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For me, Italy have always been the nation who defend the best and who can nullify a scoring threat.
The Sun
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It would negate or nullify the property rights purchased by private investors in 1993 when New Zealand Rail was sold by the then National Government.
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He may be able to nullify that disadvantage by offering a wider variety of produce.
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Without being too arrogant about the way we play I thought they might try to nullify our threat out wide.
The Sun
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True, their current playing styles are very similar - one striker, two galloping wingers, one prime mover and two midfield stiflers - so there's a risk they could nullify each other.
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The traumatic loss of its antennae should deal a devastating blow to the creature's mental equilibrium and may nullify its telepathic abilities.
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He may be able to nullify that disadvantage by offering a wider variety of produce.
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Part of the confusion, Schule added, is that special constables are essentially municipal employees, thus nullifying the need for a chief.
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Additionally, should food cans be recycled in this way, then what on earth is wrong with washing them prior to their disposal, thereby nullifying this feared vermin attraction?
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It is no surprise that last Monday the New South Wales government announced that it proposed to nullify the majority decision by legislation.
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But some conservatives fear a falling away of members, even if the majority of presbyteries eventually reject and thereby nullify the General Assembly action.
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He's hurt, he's betrayed, and as the pain hardens into bitterness, so the anger comes flowing out, nullifying everything that he thought was good and pure.
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This evidence does not nullify the alternative name, but it does invalidate the absolute reasoning behind the proposal.
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Scopes willingly joined ranks with the ACLU in an attempt to repeal or nullify the Butler Act.
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The couples in this book all found creative alternatives to the family-nullifying lives that awaited nearly every one of them.
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Recent inflation could nullify the economic growth of the last several years.
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That in exceptional cases, in which continued cohabitation would nullify the essential purpose of marriage, the dissolubility may nevertheless not be permitted, can hardly be proved as postulated by the natural law from the primary purpose of marriage.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy
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I can foresee Counsel for the defence making this point and nullifying my evidence.
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Phosphorus reacts with sodium and probably with strontium and calcium to form phosphides that nullify the intended modification additions.
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‘Is there a problem, mademoiselle?’ asked Claude in his best attempt to nullify the situation.
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The moment a man stepped out of line to nullify the threat, an unerring pass into space left the English fragmented.
Times, Sunday Times
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But while such efforts serve as healthy political protest, federal laws that are constitutional are supreme under the 10th Amendment, and states can't "nullify" a Congressional action.
ObamaCare and the Constitution
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Hurricane Fly's sire, Montjeu, was a top-class Flat racer, who has imparted finishing speed to his hurdling son, but for it to be effective the jockey must apply it at the right moment to nullify the stamina of more traditionally bred jumping horses.
Ruby Walsh displays mastery of Cheltenham with hat-trick of winners
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The lack of employees at any point in time does not terminate, nullify or invalidate a collective agreement.
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-- circumstances might arise which might nullify part of my plan, unless a clear account of the affair should ultimately come into the hands of some person whom I could trust not to make a fool of himself -- such as Polycarp, my solicitor, for instance.
Hugo A Fantasia on Modern Themes
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I can foresee Counsel for the defence making this point and nullifying my evidence.
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The threshold test required a flagrant breach of the relevant right such as would completely deny or nullify the right in the destination country.
Times, Sunday Times
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He used his broad executive powers to nullify decisions by local governments.
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The Repeal Amendment should not be confused with the power to "nullify" unconstitutional laws possessed by federal courts.
The Case for a 'Repeal Amendment'
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He used his broad executive powers to nullify decisions by local governments.
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Exercise within four hours of ingesting it and you nullify its dehydration effects.
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For me, Italy have always been the nation who defend the best and who can nullify a scoring threat.
The Sun
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What makes some people purposely seek out dissenting and alien viewpoints and accommodate them into their thinking, while others avoid them or try at all costs to nullify them?
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Even if disease or injury does not nullify our appearance, the law of gravity will soon alter it significantly!
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Seen from this perspective, the knife ban is coherent with the leftist anti-individual-rights agenda, which collectivizes our individual rights in the name of public safety and then limits those “approved” rights in order to nullify them.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Obama administration moves to ban 80% of folding knives:
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England hope a high-tempo approach will nullify their opponents' particular brand of tiki-taka.
Hope Powell's England need cool heads in the heat of World Cup battle
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Similarly, an amendment carried in November 1917 did much to nullify the reduction of plural voting rights for town dwellers.
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All too often the outside researcher pursues lines of enquiry which the prevailing culture manages to encompass and nullify.
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Since a rerun is the only way to accurately gauge the actual will of the people (especially considering that one of the candidates names had been removed from the ballot in one of the states), the only other legitimate choice is to nullify the results.
Obama about to clinch victory, aide says
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Recent inflation could nullify the economic growth of the last several years.
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The moment a man stepped out of line to nullify the threat, an unerring pass into space left the English fragmented.
Times, Sunday Times
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The only thing they have nullified is the purported right of criminal defendants to argue nullification, the idea being that if the jury is to nullify, they must do so of their own independent volition.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Deadly Force in Self-Defense Constitutionally Protected, Nondeadly Force Unprotected?
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Not only might it nullify your complete contract, but it may also invalidate the cover of those travelling with you.
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The new law stems from a decision by the government to nullify a decision of the Court of Appeal that the Maori Land Court could hear claims relating to the recognition of customary interests.
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The set-up for each game is designed to nullify the opposition, often mirroring it.
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If Inland Revenue lose, then EU states can act to nullify the decision or they can allow healthy full tax competition.
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WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Agriculture unveiled Tuesday controversial plans to again approve genetically modified sugar beets in time for planting next year, a move that would nullify a federal court ruling in August that invalidated the original approval issued by the USDA five years ago.
USDA Seeking Approval of Genetically Modified Sugar Beets
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At the tea parties, in the attempts by states including Virginia to "nullify" health care, and in parts of the originalism jurisprudence of conservatives on the Roberts Court, there is strong sense of nostalgia for the unamended Constitution and the ideas of our founding, even when those ideas have been repudiated by subsequent constitutional history and overruled or limited by constitutional Amendments.
Doug Kendall: Thurgood Marshall, Elena Kagan, and Our Constitution Today
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He used his broad executive powers to nullify decisions by local governments.
