Mr Speight and his followers are demanding the removal of Mr Chaudhry's administration and the abrogation of the constitution.
To me that is an abrogation of their responsibilities to their patients.
Among those reprieved were several top leaders of the Gamaa Islamiya, a group responsible for dozens of terror attacks in the early 1990s.At the same time, President Mubarak himself announced the abrogation, at one go, of 2,000 military decrees.
None of these symbolic votes from the left involved the abrogation of standing Supreme Court precedent, however, and none pressed for restricting a recognised individual right.There are some electoral risks involved in this GOP strategy, at least in competitive districts.
It is currently suggesting that the company be run by a committee of representatives of both Mr Prachai and the creditors, with a government official in the chair to keep the peace effectively condoning the abrogation of the creditors' rights.All of this squares with the philosophy of Thaksin Shinawatra, Thailand's prime minister (above, right).
An early, seemingly gratuitous abrogation of the treaty as a point of principle, as some Republicans have suggested, would provoke sharp retaliation.
But an exemption from property and other taxes is not a violation of the taxpayers' freedom of conscience or an abrogation of the first-amendment's establishment clause.
He accepted the abrogation of the 1972 anti-ballistic missile treaty, the deployment of American soldiers in the former Soviet republics of Central Asia and Georgia and the possibility of a big expansion of NATO.Conversely, few countries were more nervous about the new conditions, or more hesitant about policy changes, than members of the European Union.
They had been quietly hoping for an acquittal, in the expectation that this would lead to a general clamour for the abrogation of the VFA and so ensure that American soldiers would be barred from Philippine soil.The outcome suits the government, but doubts remain.
Because the threat of terrorism is so insignificant, it merits no special defensive measures, and certainly not the abrogation of our basic rights.
The counter-argument is that environmental and social issues can have profound effects on a company's bottom line, so that to ignore them is itself an abrogation of fiduciary responsibility.
