Sentence examples for abrogate a from inspiring English sources

Bachelorhood might be an undesirable lifestyle, but it should not abrogate a man's rights.

A president does not have the power to abrogate a constitution, even a temporary one; Morsi should have remained committed to the constitutional declaration and to constitutional legitimacy.

The Iranian plant is hardly profitable for Russia, but many others elsewhere are, and Rosatom has an interest in showing it will not abrogate a contract under pressure from the United States.

Mr. Reid was so frustrated on Thursday that he suggested he might abrogate a gentleman's agreement with Mr. McConnell and sign on to Democratic efforts to change the Senate's filibuster rule.

Citizens may also subscribe to national referenda or petitions designed to abrogate a law or an executive order; such a petition must be signed by 500,000 members of the electorate or sponsored by five regional councils.

Duterte has given assurances that he will not abrogate a 1951 Mutual Defense Treaty with the US and will maintain the long alliance with America, one of his country's largest trading partners and provider of development and military aid and defense equipment.

"Demanding unilateral changes and threatening to abrogate an agreement that has increased trade and prosperity is nothing more than retreating behind protectionist walls," he said.

The case became a rallying point for nationalists who wanted Manila to abrogate an agreement that allowed American troops in the Philippines and that the United States said allowed it to keep responsibility for Corporal Smith.

The mutant allele is also predicted to abrogate an HSF-2 binding site.

This was suggested to abrogate an important checkpoint of B cell tolerance in SLE [ 34].

Interestingly, it has been suggested that a viral infection could abrogate an ongoing autoimmune destruction of pancreatic cells, mainly through immuno-modulatory mechanisms [ 36].