abrogate
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Conversely, the department correctly found that the statute did not abrogate long-established privileges, including deliberative-process privilege, work-product privilege and attorney-client privilege.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 23, 2026
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
She declined to cite Windsor, Obergefell, or any other Supreme Court decisions that supersede and abrogate Lofton.
From Slate ● Aug. 22, 2023
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
No Tudor ever proposed to “repeal” that part of the statute which limited the freedom of Parliament: but only to abrogate the formalities which interfered with his own direct method of government.
From The New Irish Constitution by Morgan, J. H.
“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
It appears to me that the basic legality of a NDA which abrogates the constitutional right of free speech after entering into the agreement needs to be reconsidered.
From New York Times ● Apr. 13, 2018
Let us see whether the New Testament abrogates what we so frequently see in the Old.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah
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
She reestablished Sunday mass, suspended the use of red armbands, and abrogated the harebrained decrees.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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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
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