On many occasions he willingly sacrificed valuable political support rather than abandon his convictions as in 1882, when he opposed the Chinese Exclusion Act on the ground that it would abrogate rights guaranteed to the Chinese by the Burlingame Treaty of 1868.
How have I not abrogated their right to privacy by posting their picture publicly?
He read a letter from a constituent who asked him to offer an additional amendment addressing the demographic imbalance between men and women — a "grave injustice" that abrogated the right of every woman to have a husband of her own.
The tribe sued the United States for compensation in the U.S. Court of Claims, which ruled that tribal members still had hunting and fishing rights and that Congress had not abrogated those rights.
Burke held that the Stuart monarchs abrogated the rights of free-born Englishmen; under the Stuarts, therefore, the latter had rights that were not simply those that prevailed.
Mr. Bush refused, saying that the North abrogated its rights to the reactors when it secretly started a second weapons program, based on uranium-enrichment technology it obtained from Pakistan.
Justice George wrote that Proposition 8 did not "entirely repeal or abrogate" the right to such a protected relationship.
Later, in a hearing on whether an undercover officer's identity should be withheld, the judge ruled "I don't see that a sufficient showing has been made in this case for me to abrogate the right of this defendant to a public trial".
Prison means abrogating the right to have a say in what happens if you find yourself before a judge in the future.
Not only did I look nothing like anyone I had seen since I crossed the river, but I was also a good five-to-ten years older than most of the kids milling around, thereby abrogating my right to not have the shit beaten out of me should things turn ugly.
"Long after I'm school board president, I'll still be Alex's father, and I'm not abrogating any rights and I exercised that right," he said today.
