Sentence examples for sort of nullification from inspiring English sources

The death of a spouse or partner does not nullify a marriage or relationship -- that sort of nullification involves a divorce or a breakup.

"It makes my blood run cold when I think about Mayor de Blasio's sort of cancellation or nullification of the mosque surveillance program in and around New York City," he said.

Elsewhere, some liberal academics say nullification may be a sort of civil right.

There have been unfortunate instances of nullification.

But Jackson and Calhoun fought, primarily over the doctrine of nullification.

If he disapproved of nullification, then he would do what it took to defeat it.

The doctrine of nullification had been advocated by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison in the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions of 1798 99.

The legislature called for a special state convention, and on November 24 , 1832 the convention adopted the Ordinance of Nullification.

Sen. John C. Calhoun, the architect of nullification, was the major spokesman for the South until his death in 1850.

As editor, he attacked both nullification and the chief architect of nullification, John C. Calhoun.

Metcalfe opposed the spoils system and the doctrine of nullification.