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Is there no concept of duty that investments banks won't abrogate for profit?
It was the first time in Canadian legislative history that the national constitution had been amended to abrogate entrenched rights.
Accordingly, it is not within the competence of the Rules Committee, to abrogate the common law.
In 1948, the Soviets, in an attempt to abrogate agreements for Four-Power control of the city, blockaded Berlin.
Whatever the reason, the government has obligations under international law that it cannot abrogate.
Our county, parish and town councillors all need to see this if they do not wish to abrogate their duty to us, their constituents.
They also used this employment instrument to abrogate any responsibility for wrongdoings against employees.
This is because, in forming a state, citizens join in a social contract, and abrogate their right of free action to the sovereign body.
That principle places limitations on the power of Parliament to legislate to abrogate or undermine those fundamental rules.
Much of Europe still sees him as a unilateralist, the president who came into office determined to abrogate this or that treaty.
They're hypocrites who want to force their views upon the world and then abrogate responsibility for the consequences.
Ten members of the Chamber of Deputies have tabled a motion in the Chamber to abrogate the law extending President Lahoud's term.
Crimes are thus being used to abrogate international law, which is part of civilisation's cultural riches.
We recommend, therefore, that Canada abrogate the Safe Third Country Agreement.
Furthermore, these agreements also provide for the possibility of either party to cancel and abrogate the agreement.
The bond between husband and wife is somehow contained under the chuppah, while the ability to abrogate this bond is concretized in the divorce document.
In the circumstances, it seems extraordinarily delinquent on the part of the regulators to abrogate their collective responsibilities in this area.
Employees receive compensation in the event of injury but abrogate their right to seek legal damages.
We do not, of course, always agree with what is being said by dialogue partners, and do not abrogate business decision-making to others.
The fact that an insurer paid the claims did not abrogate the employer's obligation to make the appropriate deductions from the employee's disability payments.
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Examples from Classical Literature
This is a common enough doctrine in Europe and a difficult one to abrogate.
Yet it does not appear that any legislator attempted to abrogate servitude.
It is now proposed to abrogate it on certain days and at certain places.
As not having imposed, she cannot abrogate, suspend, or modify them.
To abrogate one iota of his power was to abrogate the whole.
They make no laws, they consent to none, they abrogate none.
You were, as I have hinted, the first to abrogate its use in my favour.
While it was true that the Pope had granted a dispensation to allow the marriage anyway, it was decided that the Pope couldn't abrogate the word of God.
More important, even if it were true, it would in no way abrogate historians' obligation to get at a humanly complete set of sources for so much pathetically misdirected rage.
What is the point of expensive investigations and prosecutions when our political masters can just abrogate all these efforts and put children at risk?
Bankruptcy Judge Allan Gropper had said he would rule on Northwest's motion to abrogate the ESSC contract on June 14, 2006 if the agreement was not ratified.
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