| It had tightened its grip on power through unconstitutional legislation, abrogation of the rule of law, and crude violence. |
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| This is an absolute abrogation of the principle of rangatiratanga inherent in the deed of settlement. |
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| Moreover, the abrogation of indenture contracts in 1900 eliminated the condition under which many Japanese immigrated to this country. |
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| Surrender, compromise with the regime, or a cease-fire means abandoning the path ordained by God and signifies an abrogation of the faith. |
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| 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. |
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| The abrogation of the ABM Treaty brings new challenges to strategic stability and the prevention of arms race in outer space. |
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| Mr Speight and his followers are demanding the removal of Mr Chaudhry's administration and the abrogation of the constitution. |
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| A law cannot be repealed except by a subsequent law providing for its abrogation. |
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| The abrogation of their family responsibilities by men can be a form of violence, and coercion. |
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| An example would be the institution of forced labour or the abrogation of legislation protecting the employee against unlawful dismissal. |
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| Since June 2008, when the charter was voted, each City Council brings many revisions, abrogation and creations of new regulations. |
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| Neither will such abrogation affect the permits issued in accordance with the by-laws thus abrogated. |
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| Does not the abrogation amount to subverting the justice system? |
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| The administration's arguments justifying the wholesale abrogation of civil liberties are by no means limited to an emergency response to an immediate threat. |
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| 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. |
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| His efforts were fiercely opposed by the colonists, resulting in the abrogation of their colonial charter by the Crown. |
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| However, abrogation may also be implicit, where a new law contains a provision that is incompatible with one in an earlier law, or regulates a matter governed by that law. |
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| John was incensed about what he perceived as an abrogation of his customary right as monarch to influence the election. |
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| The fixation of systematic opponents of missile defence on the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty and their unqualifiedly dire predictions of what would happen upon its abrogation set the scene for their failure. |
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| This abrogation does not affect legally-issued permits issued under the authority of the replaced by-law and the acquired rights from before the coming into force of the present by-law. |
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| To me that is an abrogation of their responsibilities to their patients. |
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| An early, seemingly gratuitous abrogation of the treaty as a point of principle, as some Republicans have suggested, would provoke sharp retaliation. |
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| But an exemption from property and other taxes is not a violation of the taxpayers' freedom of conscience or an abrogation of the first-amendment's establishment clause. |
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| The Ro may seek advice and assistance from his staff, but the responsibility to review the abrogation order is not delegable. |
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| In more general terms, the participants called for the review of existing texts, the elaboration of new ones and the abrogation of texts that restrict individual freedoms. |
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| The city came under national spotlight again in 1917, when Prime Minister Duan Qirui's abrogation of the constitution triggered the Constitutional Protection Movement. |
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| As President, Iloilo had been Head of State prior to his abrogation of the Constitution, but that position had been determined by the Constitution itself. |
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