Word: annul
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...Annul my will, give all to her; Leave nothing...
Advocates and opponents of abortion have clashed for the past two days in Congressional hearings over proposed constitutional amendments that would annul last year's U.S. Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion...
...some recent recognition as one of the few artists capable of preserving the expressionist portrait as a live form (as in The Family, 1971). If an artist like Georgia O'Keeffe, Helen Frankenthaler or Louise Nevelson manages, by prolonged and single-minded concentration on work, to annul the prejudice against women, it is assumed that she has "transcended the limits" of her sexual class. Thus Nevelson's austere and formidable constructions like Black Crescent, in the very act of "escaping" the stereotype, may confirm it for others. As Art Critic Barbara Rose points out in a recent book...
...agreement also provides that the Teamsters must annul all contracts with lettuce growers covering field workers. Chavez plans to begin negotiations immediately with the 75 growers in the Salinas Valley of California who signed contracts with the Teamsters last summer...
...concordat has thus created a number of practical difficulties. Only ecclesiastical courts have any authority to annul a marriage; religious education is mandatory in public schools, even for non-Catholic children; defrocked priests may be kept from holding positions in which they meet the public; and despite free-speech guarantees, an iconoclastic play like Rolf Hochhuth's The Deputy may be barred from performance in Rome because it allegedly defames Pope Pius...