abrogate

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 26, 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

“Wheatley’s acceptable rating this year does not abrogate my prior legal requirement to intervene based on the seven consecutive unacceptable ratings.”

From Washington Post ● Mar. 15, 2023

It was apparently one of the principal points of his reform, to abrogate a number of festivals.

From Ecce Homo! A Critical Inquiry into the History of Jesus of Nazareth: Being a Rational Analysis of the Gospels by Holbach, Paul Henry Thiry Baron d'

“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

This is the plain meaning of the ordinance, in relation to laws which it abrogates for alleged unconstitutionality.

From The Crisis of Eighteen Hundred and Sixty-One In The Government of The United States. Its Cause, and How it Should be Met by Steight, A. D.

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

Circuit ruling abrogating the government-attorney client privilege would be absent here.

From Slate ● Aug. 20, 2018

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

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