abrogate

Did the attorney general really abrogate his duty to supervise Mr. Smith’s work?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 26, 2025

If a few countries abrogate the Non-Proliferation Treaty, others will follow suit.

From Slate ● Jul. 17, 2025

While there was pressure to abrogate the Indus Waters Treaty - a key river water sharing agreement - India opted instead to withhold any data beyond treaty obligations, Mr Bisaria writes.

From BBC ● May 2, 2025

Duterte took steps, which he later withdrew, to abrogate a key security agreement with the U.S. that allowed large numbers of American forces to enter the Philippines for combat exercises.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 29, 2023

Law, 284 sqq.; definition, 285; eternal, natural and positive divine, 286; collision of laws, 288; precedence, 289 sqq,; basis of all laws, 293; customs may interpret, abrogate or introduce law, 506.

From Moral Theology A Complete Course Based on St. Thomas Aquinas and the Best Modern Authorities by Charles Jerome Callan

“When a statute and treaty rights conflict, the statue abrogates it,” she said.

From Reuters ● Oct. 22, 2021

There’s a reason why Ambrose Bierce described the telephone as “an invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable keep his distance.”

From Fox News ● Jul. 14, 2019

"South Korea has no official capacity to sign any agreement that abrogates the armistice agreement," said Bong Youngshik, a research fellow at Yonsei University's Institute for North Korean Studies in Seoul.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 18, 2018

“The co-pay card abrogates that. . . . None of us have come up with a very good solution about how to solve that.”

From Washington Post ● Jun. 30, 2016

Death abrogates not the rights of a husband to his wife’s silence when speech is fatal. . . to his character as a man. 

From Lady Byron Vindicated A history of the Byron controversy from its beginning in 1816 to the present time by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Nixon abrogated the U.S. promise to maintain the dollar’s value in gold in 1971, the result of political pressures at the time, according to Jenkins.

From Barron's ● Jun. 5, 2026

Mr. Popkin explains that with this single sentence Napoleon’s new regime abrogated earlier constitutional provisions that “put the inhabitants of the country’s overseas territories under the same laws” as those in mainland France.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 27, 2026

Meanwhile, roadworks and maintenance, all but abrogated in recent years due to the government’s financial woes, have been in full swing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 27, 2025

Sheikh Abdul Rashid, who had been in jail since Article 370 was abrogated in 2019, was granted interim bail earlier this month on terror funding charges he denies.

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2024

There was no position in reference to matter or objects; not the recognition of surfaces; the senses themselves collapsed and abrogated their wonted distinctions; and the body was left aware but bereft.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson

Should we care about the deaths caused by abrogating our commitments?

From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2025

Ultimately the Coliseum Commission refused — thus abrogating the agreement — hence it was the City of Los Angeles that deserted the Raiders, not the other way around.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 15, 2019

It is an issue that is often framed in moral terms, as though those managers who veer towards caution are in some way abrogating their sporting duty.

From New York Times ● Jan. 2, 2018

Fear of US escalation pushed Mr Kim into hiding but did not prevent the North from continuing to respond belligerently by violating international norms and abrogating past agreements.

From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2017

It was a deeply disturbing turn of events, essentially abrogating the Treaty of Versailles and undermining the foundations on which European peace had been built since 1919.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown