abrogating

Example Sentences

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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