How to Use abrogate in a Sentence

abrogate

verb

• The company's directors are accused of abrogating their responsibilities.
• If UAL continues to bleed red ink, some analysts say bankruptcy—which would allow it to abrogate its union contracts—may be its only hope.
  — Business Week, 12 Nov. 2001
• Putin could decide to abrogate the treaty and test regardless, but that seems unlikely.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 20 Oct. 2022
• We may not always like what we hear but we are always the poorer if we close down dialogue; if we abrogate free speech, and the open exchange of ideas.
  — Nikki Giovanni, Sacred Cows … and Other Edibles, 1988
• Even the suggestion that American Muslims’ right to practice their faith should be abrogated chips away at a bulwark that protects us all.
  — Krista Kafer, The Denver Post, 18 July 2019
• Duterte tried to abrogate a key defense pact that would have restrained American forces from entering the Philippines for large-scale war drills but later backpedaled from the effort.
  — Jim Gomez, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Apr. 2023
• Turkey has already threatened to abrogate a pact with the European Union that vastly slowed the migrant influx via its territory.
  — Tribune News Service, Twin Cities, 16 Mar. 2017
• Even so, critics of the pact, including Netanyahu, have seized on Iran's activities in the region as a reason to abrogate the agreement.
  — Nicole Gaouette, CNN, 19 Sep. 2017
• The current question in the Philippines is whether, even absent the terrorists and drug traffickers, Duterte’s instinct would be to abrogate democratic norms.
  — Jessica Trisko Darden, Washington Post, 14 Dec. 2017
• What Britain has is a prime minister with instincts, sometimes good, sometimes bad, who almost as a point of principle refuses ever to temper or abrogate them in any way.
  — Tom McTague, The Atlantic, 5 July 2022
• If avoiding any criminal consequences for his behavior meant hindering and even abrogating the FBI's work, so be it.
  — Jamil Smith, Esquire, 12 May 2017
• Yet many white people fundamentally reject that black people are owed such regard, and indeed often feel that their own rights have somehow been abrogated by contemporary racial inclusion.
  — Elijah Anderson, Vox, 10 Aug. 2018
• But business groups and free-trade lawmakers in Mr. Trump’s Republican party loudly protested the notion of abrogating the treaty.
  — Byron Tau, WSJ, 6 Sep. 2017
• This anger is conflating with Trump’s decision to abrogate the Iran nuclear deal, which the Europeans continue to recognize.
  — Mark Zandi, Philly.com, 25 May 2018
• The real issue is whether America will abrogate Barack Obama’s deal with Iran, recognizing it as a strategic debacle, a result of the last...
  — John Bolton, WSJ, 6 Feb. 2017
• Locsin proposed a review of the agreement to fix contentious issues, including criminal jurisdiction over erring American troops, instead of abrogating it.
  — Jim Gomez, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Feb. 2020
• Their desire is that the president should be removed from office, perhaps that the result of the 2016 election itself could be abrogated.
  — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 24 July 2019
• Tuesday morning, for example, Axios published an interview/scoop in which Trump floated the idea of trying to abrogate birthright citizenship via an executive order.
  — Matthew Yglesias, Vox, 31 Oct. 2018
• But Saied’s steps to abrogate the country’s institutions or place them under his control have raised alarms among democracy and human rights advocates in Tunisia and abroad — including the United States.
  — Washington Post, 30 Mar. 2022
• If federal courts may compel states to reinstate Medicaid providers, the political branches become subservient to the judiciary and the state-federal relationship is abrogated.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 12 Dec. 2018
• Promote the Vote denies that its proposal, if adopted by voters, would abrogate the constitutional provisions alleged by Defend Your Vote, the group that filed the challenge.
  — Detroit Free Press, 1 Sep. 2022
• That by itself would not abrogate the deal, but would give Congress 60 days to reimpose sanctions on Iran, an action that would mean an end to the agreement, at least for the United States.
  — Peter Baker and Rick Gladstone, New York Times, 20 Sep. 2017
• In this case, and repeatedly, Congress has abrogated its responsibilities.
  — WSJ, 5 Oct. 2018
• Led Zeppelin asked a larger panel to reconsider, and Monday’s decision reinstated the verdict and abrogated a legal rule that the 9th Circuit adopted more than a decade ago.
  — Maura Dolan, Los Angeles Times, 9 Mar. 2020
• In this future, which the rest of us are much too naive to understand, nothing will ever be devised by humankind, or at least American humankind, to discourage mass shootings without fatally abrogating the Second Amendment.
  — Kevin Riordan, Philly.com, 5 Oct. 2017
• Trump’s decision to abrogate the 2015 nuclear agreement with Iran, as well as ongoing disputes over trade and tariffs, have caused the relationship to break down.
  — Washington Post, BostonGlobe.com, 13 June 2018
• After Iran signed the nuclear agreement with the Obama administration, and held up its end of the bargain, the Trump administration unilaterally abrogated the deal for no reason, and reimposed devastating economic sanctions.
  — Ryan Cooper, TheWeek, 27 Mar. 2020
• Immediately after the war, a federal grand jury specifically indicted Lee for treason – and only avoided charges when Grant interceded, claiming such charges would abrogate the surrender agreement at Appomattox.
  — Casey Michel, The New Republic, 6 Sep. 2021
• The bill would effectively abrogate a 2012 Supreme Court case which significantly limited the ability for states to be involved in immigration enforcement.
  — Adam Shaw, Fox News, 27 Sep. 2022
• President Mirza may have abrogated the human constitution, but the 1947 Jinn Independence Act still holds.
  — Veronica Chambers, New York Times, 28 June 2019

Last Updated: 27 Mar 2024