nullifier

Example Sentences

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No amount of memories, mutual love or money owed should obscure the clarity of dire results: Twenty straight losses are the ultimate nullifier.

From Washington Post • Mar. 8, 2022

The estrangement begun over Peggy Eaton widened into a breach between a State and the United States, between the nullifier of the laws and the defender of the Union.

From Andrew Jackson by Brown, William Garrott

Their first public display was the celebration of Washington's birthday; but the most intense nullifier could raise no objection to this.

From General Scott by Wright, Marcus Joseph

The very Federalists who fought him in that day and denounced him as a traitor and nullifier lived to proclaim and practice doctrines of nullification in behalf of State's rights during the War of 1812.

From The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume V by Harper, Ida Husted

But four years after the death of the great nullifier, his disciples and followers dared to consummate a crime, the consequences of which he shrank from inviting.

From William Lloyd Garrison The Abolitionist by Grimké, Archibald Henry