The phrase "have been abrogated" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in legal or formal contexts to indicate that a law, rule, or agreement has been officially revoked or annulled.
Example: "The previous regulations have been abrogated in favor of the new policy."
Alternatives: "have been repealed" or "have been annulled."
It can't surely be concern with respect for individual rights since, when it comes to terrorism (which has killed fewer people overall in 20 years than guns have killed in a single year), all sorts of rights have been abrogated; detention without trial, questioning without reference to an attorney, torture, strip searches at airports etc.The IEP report has a useful comparison.
Congress can find that payments from US taxpayers to financial institutions to prevent bankruptcy in the public interest were not designed to satisfy contractual obligations that would have been abrogated had the company died its natural death.
The flanking transposase/integrase cassette suggests that the ula regulon is part of a still mobile metabolic island (or islet) in Y. enterocolitica [ 4], whereas in Y. intermedia the mobility may have been abrogated by partial gene deletion.
"So, I'm given to understand that you two have been abrogating your patriotic duties, is that correct?" I said, "Yes, that is correct".
Egypt has, at present, no parliament and no President, and its constitution has been abrogated.
The rights of the next of kin had been abrogated by "a secret treaty with a foreign power", she fumed.
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.
Wisconsin has created some momentum, which is rippling outwards: a spirit of rebellion, particularly among young people from whom the American dream has been abrogated in so many ways.
Moreover, in Lithuania the prohibitions against use of the indigenous language in public life and its press in the Latin alphabet had been abrogated in 1904.
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.
He said maquilas, the tariff-free assembly plants that have operated along the United States-Mexico border since the 1960's, have created "a democracy-free zone" in Mexico in which the rights of workers to belong to independent unions has been abrogated.
