On October 8th Mr Nasheed said "there were no good reasons for nullifying the elections".
Like Mr Ryan, administration officials find both tax and Social Security reform appealing.Yet by plucking only their preferred parts from the report, Democrats and Republicans are in effect nullifying its purpose, which was to achieve consensus by demanding sacrifice from everyone.
The electoral surge of the UK Independence Party has made them extremely glad of the prime minister's referendum promise: it is their main hope of nullifying UKIP's threat at a general election next year.
Last Thursday the seventh circuit court of appeals thwarted gay marriage bans in Wisconsin and Indiana, joining the fourth and tenth circuit courts that have issued recent rulings nullifying one man-one woman marriage laws in Virginia, Utah and Oklahoma.
This did not catch on when introduced in 2002 because the problems it was intended to address, such as nullifying the power of the big servers, were soon being solved in other ways.
The city's major unions have split their endorsements for the Democratic nominee four ways, effectively nullifying organised labour's impact on the election.2.
His set-piece speeches include clunking attempts at triangulation; on issue after issue, he offers a right-wing proposition before nullifying it with a left-wing one.
If a cell's defence mechanisms detect double-stranded RNA they destroy it, to protect against infection.This aversity to double-stranded RNA means short hairpins can be used to knock out the messengers, thus nullifying the signal from the underlying gene.
And in Greece v Galloway, the Court ruled 5-4 thatowntown board could begin meetings with mostly Christian prayers without offending the First Amendment's bar on "the establishment of religion".After nullifying the Defence of Marriage Act and permitting same-sex marriage to resume in California a year ago, the justices took a break from gay issues this term.
Michael Porter and Jan Rivkin of the Harvard Business School (HBS) sum up the mood: "The US government is failing to tackle weaknesses in the business environment that are making the country a less attractive place to invest and [is] nullifying some of America's most important competitive strengths".
