Sentence examples for abrogated- from inspiring English sources

Gwalior and Gohad were restored to Sindhia, the defensive treaty was abrogated, and the East India Company's protectorate over Rajasthan was withdrawn.

Inferences based on these conventions are defeasible, however, because the conventions can themselves be explicitly abrogated or suspended.

They have the talent and the brains and the money to get it done and yet almost every housing association in the country has abrogated its role in changing the housing sector".

But most of the material that individuals saved has been lost or determined, rightly or wrongly, not to be important enough for preservation.The libraries that are presently wringing their hands over collecting everything digital have abrogated this basic responsibility of appraising documents for the future.

But if contracts are abrogated the costs will be high.

America abrogated the "gold clause" (which fixed the payment of interest and principal in terms of the metal) after leaving the gold standard.

For progressives and feminists, the news is evidence that Susan G. Komen's commitment to women's health can be abrogated by political pressure from the pro-life right.

Treaties, after all, are not legal documents but political ones; they register commitments made by governments but threaten no sanctions if those commitments are broken or abrogated, apart from disapproval.

Iran sees what it calls its "right" to enrichment under the terms of the Non-Proliferation Treaty (which it has not abrogated) as non-negotiable.

Since April 2009, when the country's constitution was abrogated, martial law has been a permanent fixture.

Fiji's president abrogated the constitution and reappointed Mr Bainimarama as prime minister.