Sentence examples for a nullification from inspiring English sources

It's not a nullification.

It's about a vocal and ardent minority demanding a nullification of a law it doesn't like.

Bhutto refused to form a government with this separatist party, causing a nullification of the election.

But to people like Mr Eckerstrom in Pima County, the mere attempt to pass a "nullification" law was too much to bear, suggesting that Maricopa, claiming to speak for Arizona, wants in effect to secede from America.

Stephen I. Vladeck, an American University law professor who filed a friend-of-the-court brief asking the court to rehear the case, said the note amounted to a nullification of the more sweeping parts of the January ruling without the court bothering to rehear it.

As the court of appeal explained: "What is required is a real risk of a breach of the principles of a fair trial guaranteed by article 6 which is 'so fundamental as to amount to a nullification, or destruction of the very essence, of the right guaranteed by that article'".

One common strategy, Silverstein said, is to pursue a jury nullification, in which a jury returns a not-guilty verdict, despite clear and indisputable evidence to the contrary, because the jurors find the charges unjust.

Kushner's title implies the kind of political equivalence that might amount to a Flaubertian ironic nullification, a nihilistic cynicism beyond politics — decades of similar rapacity, playacting, art-making, and anarchistic "offense," all of it subsumed within the titular "flamethrowing".

And so it was that Mr. Cornell soon became the lucky recipient of a case of almost-a-jury nullification, as prosecutors soon found themselves cutting a deal to dismiss the misdemeanor possession charge out of fear that they would not be able to find 12 jurors in this marijuana-friendly state to convict.

"We are not facing a violation of the truce … we are facing a complete nullification," he said on Al Arabiya al Hadath TV.

And although Missouri lawmakers last week failed to overturn a veto by Gov. Jay Nixon of a bill that would have prevented the enforcement of federal gun laws in the state, a modified nullification law was enacted in Kansas.