For weeks diplomats have feared that Mr Karzai would annul the election.
Under a guillotine clause, such a breach would annul six other economic agreements struck at the time.
Following his recording yesterday, Osama bin Laden, the al-Qaida leader, to told Muslims that alliances with Christians and Jews would annul their faith.
Tsipras on Monday reiterated that his aim was to form a "united left front" that would annul the controversial loan agreement keeping the debt-stricken economy afloat.
Mr. Obama's new strategy — which would annul or reverse several initiatives by the Bush administration — will be contained in a nearly completed document called the Nuclear Posture Review, which all presidents undertake.
Like King Canute's sycophantic courtiers, who suggested their monarch was so powerful he could command the rising tide to retreat, the bill's backers would annul the laws of nature.
(See the case of Anders Breivik: an initial psychiatric assessment found him insane, but that finding was reversed after complaints, including from Breivik himself, that insanity would annul his culpability).
