(a.) To make void; to render invalid; to deprive of legal force or efficacy.
Example Sentences:
(1) But Di Matteo has made bold selections before, not least when he asked Ramires to play on the left of midfield against Barcelona in an attempt to nullify the threat posed by the marauding Daniel Alves down the flank.
(2) The case, which highlighted the ultimate power of commanders as "convening authorities" to nullify a conviction by a military jury, became a focus of last month's Senate hearing on military sexual assault .
(3) The protective effects of NG-nitro-L-arginine methyl ester were nullified by adding an excess of L-arginine to the pump circuit, suggesting that the L-arginine-NO pathway is involved in myocardial reoxygenation injury.
(4) This is a further fact to nullify the theory of the paraganglionic origin of alveolar soft part sarcoma, but the question of the histogenesis of the tumor still remains open.
(5) Genetic abnormalities that give rise to malignancy in these leukaemic cells can be bypassed and their effects nullified by inducing differentiation, which stops cells from multiplying.
(6) The in vivo anti-tumor activity of spleen cells of mice in regression was nullified by treatment with anti-Thy 1 and anti-Lyt 1 plus C, but not anti-Lyt 2 plus C. These results indicate that CY administration results in only a transient decrease of tumor cell number and that an induction of Lyt 1 +, Lyt 2 + T cells in the peritoneal cavity and Lyt 1 + T cells in spleen may be responsible for a complete disappearance of tumor cells.
(7) Civil libertarians contend that legal restrictions preventing the government from intentionally targeting an American using surveillance tools for uncovering foreign intelligence information are nullified if the government can collect vast swaths of data and maintain unrestricted leeway to search through it.
(8) The only way to nullify that is to turn the television off.
(9) This scenario would in effect nullify an internationally agreed goal to keep the increase in average global temperatures below 2C from pre-industrial levels.
(10) The medico-legal expertise having having concluded to non-paternity because of a marked dissimilarity between the Y chromosomes, the Paris Court of law accepted these conclusions and gave a sentence nullifying a previous paternity recognition.
(11) I’d like to see the next president turn around and just nullify it on behalf of the United States,” Kerry said.
(12) This infrequent complication, which may result from a conflict of force vectors at the hip joint during lengthening, can, when left untreated, nullify the benefits of such a procedure.
(13) Come the bell, the upstart nervelessly played it cool, almost a laughingly gay matador, his speed of hand and foot totally nullifying Liston’s wicked jab, the key to his armoury.
(14) The increase in deltaP and a numerical decrease in piA both acted to maintain sngfr after AGBM Ab and effectively nullified the influence of decreased rpf upon sngfr.
(15) The NA-induced hyperpolarization was nullified at -89 to -92 mV of membrane potentials (n = 3).
(16) The initial difference of 24 h was not nullified, but decreased to 8 h. This difference allowed transferred foetuses to pass the period of maximum sensitivity before salicylate treatment.
(17) When the same dose of insulin was infused with the antiserum to human IGF-I, the growth response was completely nullified.
(18) Anti PL-V Ig (antibodies to a toxic phospholipase A2 VRV PL-V of V. russelli venom) nullifies the toxicity of whole V. russelli venom to a great extent.
(19) We nullified Bolasie, frustrated Zaha and haven’t allowed Palace to create any clear-cut chances.
(20) The functions of these 'successful defence' manoeuvres are to obviate any feelings of an awareness of envy, although they may be overtly envious attacks within themselves, secondly they nullify any awareness of dependence, and also nullify awareness of need and illness, and thirdly they maintain the narcissistic organization by producing a successful identificate.
Overrule
Definition:
(v. t.) To rule over; to govern or determine by superior authority.
(v. t.) To rule or determine in a contrary way; to decide against; to abrogate or alter; as, God overrules the purposes of men; the chairman overruled the point of order.
(v. t.) To supersede, reject, annul, or rule against; as, the plea, or the decision, was overruled by the court.
(v. i.) To be superior or supreme in rulling or controlling; as, God rules and overrules.
Example Sentences:
(1) In one of Pruitt’s first official acts, for example, he overruled the recommendation of his own agency’s scientists, based on years of meticulous research, to ban a pesticide shown to cause nerve damage, one that poses a clear risk to children, farmworkers and rural drinking water supplies.
(2) Oscar Pistorius ‘to be released in August’ as appeal date is set for November Read more But the parole board at his prison overruled an emotional plea from the 29-year-old victim’s parents when it sat last week.
(3) "Gove's overruling by the prime minister is a victory for thousands of young people, teachers and athletes, and is a warning to this government that it cannot simply do what it likes.
(4) It’s the failure of an over-centralised prime ministerial office, too small to have real intellectual and research heft yet arrogant enough to overrule FCO advisers.
(5) Any attempts to overrule it undermine both the women's right to choose and doctor's right to practice.
(6) But, against his own wishes, he had to announce that the Saudi contract bid would go ahead because of the financial penalties involved, but when that reason was amended to Britain’s “best interests” it was widely assumed that Hammond had overruled him.
(7) It is not an option for the shadow cabinet to overrule him in favour of collectively supporting the proposal for military action because this would lead to them being sacked.
(8) We are amazed that a doctor's judgment is overruled in nine cases out of 10."
(9) A great portfolio might overrule this requirement but it is a great fall back.
(10) Asst Ch Con Roger Bannister said in a statement: “This man is not the only individual being investigated by Operation Enamel and our determination to bring others to justice is undaunted.” Saunders overruled the lead counsel, Eleanor Laws QC, who had recommended that Janner should be charged.
(11) He told the committee he would be willing to overrule Ofqual and press ahead if he believed the changes were right: "If they still had concerns and I still believe it is right to go ahead then I would do it, and on my head be it."
(12) The PI was seen as a supplementary source of information, instrumental to the physician-pharmacist-patient relationship, without the power to overrule the physician's or pharmacist's instructions.
(13) And now the European court of human rights keeps the judiciary honest, as it did in the Abu Qatada case itself last year when overruling our judges' effort to be relaxed about torture evidence as long as it was being allowed in Amman and not the Old Bailey.
(14) It argues that Webster does not overrule Roe v. Wade, but that it clarifies 3 points of law concerning abortion.
(15) NGO officials say Sudan's national security service has been overruling the state humanitarian affairs commission on issues of which aid groups are allowed to work, and where.
(16) And the Nauru files unveil how conditions in the camps are clinically euphemised for the outside world: critical incidents, in which refugees have attempted to kill themselves, or are raped or assaulted, are downgraded to the classifications “major” or “minor”, ensuring that Wilson – the security subcontractor on the island – won’t be fined for failing to report them in time; doctors’ orders that someone be moved for urgent medical treatment are overruled by a department slavishly determined to uphold a policy, regardless of medical consequence.
(17) Solomon led the London march early today with a megaphone but found her directions overruled when students, instructed via mobile phones, spontaneously sprinted toward parliament.
(18) Her mother the Duchess of Kent had wanted to call her Georgiana Charlotte Augusta Alexandrina Victoria, but was overruled by a cantankerous Prince Regent, the future George IV, who dictated during the ceremony that she be called Alexandrina Victoria instead in tribute to the Russian Tsar Alexander I.
(19) It’s hard for public servants to actually overrule somebody who might next week be sitting on the other side of the table at a Senate estimates hearing, grilling them,” he said.
(20) Ruling initially accepted by foreign secretary, Robin Cook, but a "feasibility study" ordered into the potential return June 2004 UK government tries to block return of islanders through two orders in council, royal decrees which declared no one had right of abode May 2006 The high court overruled the orders in council, describing their use to expel an entire population as repugnant 2007 Foreign office appeal rejected