Sentence examples for whether to abrogate from inspiring English sources

The lawyers' findings could allow work on a defense system to begin while giving Mr. Clinton and his successor another year to decide whether to abrogate the treaty.

But Italians were called to the polls last weekend, for a referendum on whether to abrogate parts of a fertility law enacted in 2004 that banned research using stem cells from embryos, and imposed stringent requirements on test-tube pregnancies.To succeed, the vote needed not just a simple majority but also a quorum of 50% of eligible voters.

As a result of the legal wrangling of the past few months, the question actually put to the voters was whether they wanted to abrogate a law passed on 26 May and introduced by Berlusconi which postponed the new nuclear strategy by a year.

He wondered whether it was necessary to abrogate the treaty now, or whether the decision was tied to the successful progress of the war in Afghanistan, making allied support less important.

Given the frequent use of radiotherapy in treatment of colorectal cancer and the potential importance of this therapeutic strategy, the aim of this study was to determine whether UCN-01 was able to abrogate the IR-induced G2 arrest in a range of colorectal tumour cell lines, and whether this would consistently lead to radiosensitisation in these cell lines.

However, whether these guidelines will be sufficient to abrogate CVD risk in SLE remains to be determined.

Relatively little attention has been paid to the role of host/tumour microenvironment factors such as the inflammatory response and whether anti VEGF therapy might be able to abrogate an inflammatory microenvironment that is favourable to tumour growth/metastasis.

We generated a double mutant Pak1 (and8Q and T219E [LC8mut-Pak1]; see Fig. 1B) to abrogate LC8 binding and tested whether these mutations would affect Pak1 nuclear import.

Future studies should also examine whether NF-κB stimulation can directly instigate cystogenesis and whether specific NF-κB inhibition is a viable strategy to abrogate cyst expansion in PKD.> Additional file 1 Table S1 Table

This case turns, then, on whether Congress acted within its constitutional authority when it sought to abrogate the states' immunity for purposes of the F.M.L.A.'s family-leave provision.

But which symptoms would we seek to abrogate or relieve?