abrogate - use in sentences

Object

  • treaty: Whether or not the President alone can abrogate a treaty is an open question.
  • responsibility: We cannot, nor should not, abrogate that responsibility.
  • law: No honest scholar would pretend that Jesus wanted to abrogate the law.
  • right: Non-state actors should also be held accountable for actions or omissions that abrogate these rights.

Used with why or when

  • what: It confirms THE ( original ) BIBLE and has the authority to preserve or abrogate what THE BIBLE contains.. .

Object

  • one: But an abrogating verse ought to come after the abrogated one.

Modifying Another Word

  • not: He will not abrogate the work of Christ on the cross.
  • also: He reveals truth to His prophets, but also abrogates it, changes the message, or makes them forget it.
  • now: Statutory intervention has now abrogated the need for this mandatory warning in all the above cases.
  • thereby: Teheran has been given steady attention since it renewed its uranium enrichment program - and thereby abrogated a commitment not to do so.
  • all: These verses are all abrogated by other verses which call for war.

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