Sentence examples for been abrogated from inspiring English sources
verb
To annul by an authoritative act; to abolish by the authority of the maker or her or his successor; to repeal; — applied to the repeal of laws, decrees, ordinances, the abolition of customs, etc.
Egypt has, at present, no parliament and no President, and its constitution has been abrogated.
Under the state of emergency, freedom of assembly, speech, and the press, among others, have all been abrogated.
The rights of the next of kin had been abrogated by "a secret treaty with a foreign power", she fumed.
He said, "We're abrogating contracts wherever we want to; your contract's been abrogated".
The fax did not say that he had lost much of his authority, or that his five-year contract to manage Turner Broadcasting had been abrogated a year early.
The revolutionaries committed themselves to "the fine ideal of a Cuba free, democratic and just," pledging to restore the democratic Constitution of 1940 that had been abrogated after the Batista coup in 1952.
Signed contracts were abrogated.
The resolutions can be abrogated by passing another resolution.
Local laws which offended Christian sensibilities were abrogated - the burning of widows, for instance, was banned.
What if two mutually exclusive things make us happy, and one has to be abrogated?
This fundamental right cannot be abrogated, even in the name of more fashionable civil rights concerns.
