The universe should have become void before it even got started, precluding the possibility of stars, solar systems, Earth and all of us.
I do not agree with the skeptical view of Hussein Agha and Robert Malley ("The two-state solution's many flaws," Views, Aug. 12) that "the two-state solution has become void of meaning, a catchphrase divorced from the contentious issues it is supposed to resolve".
Robey disputed this part of the contract and stated that he agreed to this only as a personal favour to the music hall manager George Adney Payne and that it should have become void on Payne's death in 1907.
But after the Long Beach City Council voted last week to duplicate many of Mr. Nyman's responsibilities in a different office, some of his constituents wonder whether his job had become so void of substance that he might as well spend his days on the white sandy beach just a 10-minute walk from his office in city hall.
Spinoza believed that the state contained the seeds of its own destruction and that, with its extinction, the social pact devised by Moses had lapsed and all the political and religious obligations incumbent upon the Jews had become null and void.
The erasure had become the main action, the void was making all these other things happen.
He reported that he felt "utterly dead"; that he had entered "the Void"; that he had become a "diamond, which reflects everything, but has no existence in itself".
If Proposal 2 had become an amendment, it would have voided existing and future laws restricting workers' ability to organize unions, or to negotiate and enforce collective bargaining agreements, including employees' financial support of their labor unions.
The city, despite its storied skyline, had become architecturally sleepy by the mid-nineteen-nineties, a void that Gang hoped to fill.
