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Verb(1) revoke formally(2) formally put an end to

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(1) In the absence of a clear express intent to abrogate rights and obligations - rights of the highest importance to the individual - those rights remain in force.(2) It was the first time in Canadian legislative history that the national constitution had been amended to abrogate entrenched rights.(3) In 1975, Moscow decided to abrogate this agreement.(4) The more I ponder these simple points the more it seems likely that there will either be gigantic loopholes or the GMC will be forced to break its promise and abrogate the rights of retired doctors.(5) Accordingly, it is not within the competence of the Rules Committee, to abrogate the common law.(6) a proposal to abrogate temporarily the right to strike(7) The employees submitted that the Premier Plan and the associated trust could not be separated and the merger could not lawfully abrogate the trust rights to which they were entitled.(8) We do not approve, generally, of plural marriages - the basis of our disapproval being that they abrogate the rights of women and especially of young girls.(9) In 1948, the Soviets, in an attempt to abrogate agreements for Four-Power control of the city, blockaded Berlin.(10) It is an established rule in English-based common law countries that statutes will not be interpreted as abrogating fundamental rights and freedoms unless clearly stated.(11) It would depend on the detailed operation of the law and it is most unlikely that a blanket abrogation of legal professional privilege would survive.(12) Section 1 of the Suicide Act 1961 abrogated the rule that made suicide criminal.(13) If a regime abrogated the rights to life, liberty, and property, its subjects could overthrow it and choose a new one.(14) In a matter so sensitive, to deny the court the capacity to take into account all the circumstances of a case, is a basic denial of justice and an abrogation of our International Treaty obligations.(15) The administration's arguments justifying the wholesale abrogation of civil liberties are by no means limited to an emergency response to an immediate threat.(16) On returning to Madagascar, both sides abrogated the agreement.
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(1) abrogate
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Verb
1. repeal
2. revoke
3. rescind
4. repudiate
5. overturn
6. annul
7. disallow
8. cancel
9. invalidate
10. nullify
11. void
12. negate
13. dissolve
14. countermand
15. declare null and void
16. discontinue
17. reverse
18. retract
19. remove
20. withdraw
21. abolish
22. put an end to
23. do away with
24. get rid of
25. end
26. stop
27. quash
28. scrap
29. disaffirm


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