Sentence examples for at naught from inspiring English sources

They may have overvalued privacy, but I am not disposed to set their command at naught.

To meet the threat of an enemy without compunction, who sets the value of human life at naught, governments will need to beef up both.

But should the fact that the Jews were homeless as well as stateless disqualify their claim to nationhood and set their rights at naught?

To set something at naught you first have to recognise it and doubts about the euro, it seems, have simply failed to register with most EU leaders.

His exploits filled Manila with consternation, and councils were held to devise some method of getting rid of him ; but he set all their efforts at naught.

In other words, no state can, in respect to any matter, set at naught the paramount provisions of the national Constitution.

In the near-term, though, the effort is probably for naught — at least with Republicans in power.

But all the debate over what's hot and what's not in the toy business may be for naught, at least when it comes to children old enough to participate in a survey.

Earlier, opener Rutherford hit 36 off 19 to get the Essex innings off to a decent start, having been dropped by White at slip on naught.

This was often for naught because the maroons were led by fearless warriors who would stop at nothing to throw off the insidious chains of chattel slavery.

AT SAC, A TOWERING FINE FOR NAUGHT  |  When Steven A. Cohen's firm, SAC Capital Advisors, agreed four months ago to pay $616 million to the Securities and Exchange Commission, it sounded like a payoff.