How to Use nullification in a Sentence

nullification

noun

• The nullification of Kenya’s August vote was the first time a court in Africa had overturned a presidential election.
  — Washington Post, 3 Nov. 2017
• As a result, we here by order nullification of the elections.
  — Rabson Kondowe, Quartz Africa, 3 Feb. 2020
• The union has asked for nullification of the board vote and preservation of employee contracts at Stewart.
  — Alia Malik, San Antonio Express-News, 17 Mar. 2018
• The nullification of that many votes would have made Trump the winner in each of those states and given him enough of an Electoral College advantage to launch him into a second term.
  — Johnny Magdaleno, The Indianapolis Star, 17 Nov. 2020
• Talbott said Kriho didn’t talk much about her activism or the jury nullification case at work.
  — Mitchell Byars, The Cannabist, 2 Feb. 2017
• This idea is related to his belief in nullification theory, which is the idea that a state can void federal laws.
  — Christian K. Anderson, The Conversation, 26 June 2020
• This isn't quite John C. Calhoun nullification, in the sense that the legislation wouldn't try to supercede federal law.
  — Arkansas Online, 3 Apr. 2021
• The defeat of a Supreme Court nominee on this basis would be a victory for a level of conscious political nullification not seen in the U.S. for a long time.
  — Daniel Henninger, WSJ, 19 Sep. 2018
• One hears activists and a few officials even talk of nullification and secession.
  — Mensah M. Dean, Philly.com, 12 Feb. 2018
• The nullification of the CFPB’s rule means that people who suffered financial harm or identity theft as a result of either of these large companies’ lapses may not have the right to take them to court.
  — Gillian B. White, The Atlantic, 25 Oct. 2017
• Democrats often brush off these nullification efforts as scare tactics to rile up voters who are passionate about guns.
  — Jessica Boehm, azcentral, 25 Feb. 2020
• If there are procedural hiccups, Mr Mutharika may use them as an excuse to get his supporters onto the streets and to ask the courts for another nullification.
  — The Economist, 20 June 2020
• The judge's 59-page ruling outlined a litany of reasons for the decision, ultimately opting in favor of a full nullification of the policy.
  — Dan Carson, Chron, 18 Apr. 2022
• Jury nullification refers to when a jury ignores the law and acquits someone who is technically guilty.
  — Bruce Vielmetti, Journal Sentinel, 26 Oct. 2022
• The Right was looking for a political nullification of the Obama years and a cultural repudiation of Barack Obama as a man.
  — Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, 29 Oct. 2017
• Prior legislative attempts at nullification have run afoul of that clause.
  — James Brooks, Anchorage Daily News, 15 Apr. 2021
• The Senate’s nullification of the rule came about even as recent major financial-industry scandals have harmed consumers.
  — Gillian B. White, The Atlantic, 25 Oct. 2017
• It eventually was struck down in court, but several states still followed with their own nullification measures.
  — Lindsay Whitehurst, chicagotribune.com, 4 Mar. 2021
• What is fascinating is that an example offered by the Talmud concerning nullification is a vow made by God.
  — Rabbi Avi Weiss, sun-sentinel.com, 6 July 2021
• In its legal challenge, the state police union focused on the nullification by the reform law of contract language that exempted parts of personnel files from public disclosure laws.
  — Edmund H. Mahony, courant.com, 14 Oct. 2020
• The rise of nullification does not decrease the danger of an unfettered Trump administration.
  — Daniel Gross, Slate Magazine, 22 Aug. 2017
• That’s the perfect nullification of the logic of identity politics.
  — Ezra Klein, Vox, 9 Apr. 2018
• His office did not respond to a question about the administration’s view of nullification, the principle that a state can overrule the federal government.
  — James Brooks, Anchorage Daily News, 15 Apr. 2021
• The fact that the media has criticized Trump so constantly and so uniformly from day one is perceived as a fundamental unfairness, a nullification of what so many see as their victory.
  — Ken Stern, The Hive, 27 Mar. 2018
• However, following the nullification, this means Chilima is now again the vice president.
  — Rabson Kondowe, Quartz Africa, 3 Feb. 2020
• And Texas’s insistence that no party can bring a suit challenging S.B. 8 amounts to an assertion that the federal courts are powerless to halt the state’s ongoing nullification of federal law.
  — John Fritze, USA TODAY, 18 Oct. 2021
• Lawmakers in a handful of big states have proposed such nullifications, which Mr. Schnitzer said would likely be subject to a constitutional challenge.
  — Leslie Scism, WSJ, 21 Apr. 2020
• In a 2-1 decision, the appeals court said the nullification of Baca's vote was unconstitutional.
  — Pete Williams, NBC News, 21 Aug. 2019
• The proposal is similar to a wave of federal nullification bills backed by Republicans in statehouses around the country.
  — al, 27 Apr. 2021
• The idea of encouraging nullification should leave most people uneasy.
  — Seth Stern, Washington Post, 7 June 2019

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