Sentence examples for or abrogated from inspiring English sources

The remaining 20 free-trade agreements the US has signed are to be reviewed or abrogated.

Many of the political concessions made earlier, under the pressure of popular turmoil, were now restricted or abrogated.

President Bush has asserted that the treaty must be amended or abrogated to allow testing of promising technologies which allow antimissile weapons to be fired from ships, planes and possibly space vehicles.

Treaties, after all, are not legal documents but political ones; they register commitments made by governments but threaten no sanctions if those commitments are broken or abrogated, apart from disapproval.

MI significantly reduced fractional shortening, cardiomyocyte peak shortening, and maximal velocity of shortening and relengthening, all of which were attenuated or abrogated by MSC therapy.

But he is wrong in identifying its sources, and he blows his complaints far out of proportion when comparing the authority of a prime minister in a Westminster parliamentary system with that of a president in a different political system who has revised or abrogated constitutional checks and balances (with legitimate popular support or otherwise).

The choice of verbs -- withdraw or abrogate -- tips the reader to the point of view.

Justice George wrote that Proposition 8 did not "entirely repeal or abrogate" the right to such a protected relationship.

"And if I have to revise or abrogate agreements, executive agreements, this shall be the last manoeuvre, war games between the United States and the Philippines military".

The chairman "oversees the entire national business," appointing important military figures, ratifying or abrogating treaties with foreign nations, appointing special envoys and declaring states of emergency or war, the new Constitution said.

But on Thursday the judge, Paula J. M. Manderfield of Ingham County Circuit Court in Lansing, found that the petitions did not include ample warning that signing them could ultimately "alter or abrogate" the State Constitution.