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/ˌæbɹəɡˈeɪʃən/
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[ US /ˌæbɹəˈɡeɪʃən/ ]
[ US /ˌæbɹəˈɡeɪʃən/ ]
NOUN
- the act of abrogating; an official or legal cancellation
How To Use abrogation In A Sentence
- In the abolition of such Biblical ordinances he laid down the principle of Abrogation which forms the basis of Islamic theology.
- And despite of North Korea's repeated kind of abrogation of its commitments, China has again and again appealed for calm and reason to prevail. CNN Transcript Nov 16, 2009
- The use of encryption would, in my opinion, be prima facia evidence of the “reasonable expectation of privacy” argument underpinning the abrogation of that right by the ISP on behalf of the subscriber. The Volokh Conspiracy » Eleventh Circuit Decision Largely Eliminates Fourth Amendment Protection in E-Mail
- The courts accept that abrogation of these privileges can only be made by statute but nonetheless there is considerable scope for judicial definition of limits.
- Haskalah" moved in the same direction as eighteenth century rationalism which made for the abrogation of the historic faiths. The Menorah Journal, Volume 1, 1915
- Importantly, disrupting the SDF-1/CXCR4 interaction prevented the recruitment of vasculogenic cells to the tumor site and thereby blocked postirradiation development of functional tumor vasculature, resulting in abrogation of tumor regrowth. PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories
- Consequently bogeyman excuses are co-opted to obtain sanction for this unethical abrogation of a natural right even more fundamental than liberty. I, Pirate …
- Kevin Rudd's office called it an "abrogation" of the constitution while Fiji's other big brother Woolly Days
- After the coup of 1964, the country suffered from a deeply entrenched, repressive military dictatorship, afflicted by abrogations of human rights that included censorship, random arrests and torture.
- Surrender, compromise with the regime, or a cease-fire means abandoning the path ordained by God and signifies an abrogation of the faith.