abrogation

abrogate | Business English

abrogate
verb[ T ]
 formaluk /ˈæbrəɡeɪt/us
LAW
to officially end a law, agreement, or custom:
The opposition party pledged to abrogate the law if they won the election.

Examples of abrogate

abrogate
And lastly, the government abrogated the subsidy that derived from forgiving the value-added tax, which was most of the subsidy to industrial promotion.
What is important is that the centre should not, in the name of decentralization, abrogate responsibility which only the centre is capable of fulfilling.
The new tariff broke this ceiling and the distribution agreement abrogated.
Therapies designed to directly abrogate neuronal excitotoxicity might also prove to be advantageous.
Teratogenic effects of neonatal arenavirus infection on the developing rat cerebellum are abrogated by passive immunotherapy.
The analysis of the event into event differentials by no means abrogates this problem of whole units of action.
The first, daring and startling, is indicative of how far he has abrogated architectural convention.
The courts have treated the benefits of approved projects as a legal right that the government cannot abrogate unilaterally.
Such early coincidence detection would be a very effective mechanism to abrogate the background signal represented by thermal and uncorrelated visual events.
Disruption of this signaling may abrogate maintenance of the stem cell niche and lead to preneoplastic conditions.
He thus abrogated the right of lineage leaders to control their own daughters.
The three severest forms of punishments must be immediately abrogated.
The managers of this school have, in effect, abrogated their responsibility for music.
As this example illustrates, no single word stands out as an obvious analogue for abrogated.
Within five days, a petition, iterating their desire for the king to ' abrogate or moderate ' action against the nonconforming ministers, also had been devised.
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