Sentences with phrase «simply abrogate»

He also said the committee changed some of the language on strategies for turning around struggling schools because «it was not clear we have the power to simply abrogate [union] contracts» affecting those schools.

Yet it is not a sustainable position for a global telecommunications provider / enabler to ignore all these implications and seek institutional policies and agnostic infrastructure that simply abrogates them from managing these 21st Century dilemmas.

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In the name of necessity, or security, or advancement, or just out of cowardice, these people abrogate their individual responsibility and take part in questionable or immoral or illegal activities because they are following orders, or because business demands it, or because if they don't somebody else will, or because it's the only way to get that extra dollar, or because it's simply easier.

This article is arguably hypocritical as well as stomach - churning, since it begins with the suggestion that «Because of the amazingly diverse multicultural contexts in which pastoral ministers are called upon to work today, it is impossible to prescribe one liturgical model that will be always and everywhere appropriate»: this flexible and open - minded liturgist then proceeded to argue in The Tablet that only the Mass of Paul VI is always and everywhere appropriate and that its very existence automatically abrogated all previous liturgies for ever: presumably those who prefer the older form are not to be given the dignity of a group or «culture» to be catered for by his free and easy multicultural ways, but are to be simply dismissed as a bunch of liturgical perverts.

It boggles my mind that Americans are willing to abrogate this, freedom, this legacy and this duty that so many have sacrificed fortune and life to assure simply because they feel we have «advanced» beyond the prospect of tyranny.

The arguments in the Brexit litigation over Article 50 TEU were effective because, as incorporated, the EU Treaties had given rise to domestic rights that could not simply be abrogated by the executive exercising prerogative powers.