Invalidate, as a law

Usage examples of nullify.

He thought it went a long way towards nullifying the effects of aldehyde loaded Vietnamese wine and beer in some fashion known only to extinct alchemists or Dupont scientists, perhaps.

Through seeming flight, The Shadow was seeking the only course by which he might nullify the catastrophe that would otherwise mean final doom for the prisoners within the Aureole Mine!

Despite the luck that he had wished Professor Durand, Rodney Moyne was planning a way to nullify whatever tests the robot might complete!

Moreover, Durand had nullified the contract that he signed, because Moyne would now be unable to go through with the provisions of the second part.

Once his powers were nullified by our being here, he could not beguile them any longer.

The rabid determination of partizan politicians not to allow the United States to enter into any agreement with the rest of the world to stop war, the outbreaks of violence among the criminal classes, the determined efforts of the liquor interests to nullify the constitutional Prohibition amendment, the depression in business, the increase of unemployment, the strenuous effort of the agitators to make trouble between this country and Great Britain on one side and Japan on the other, all may be grouped with this pathetic spectacle of respectable women turned shoplifters as an indication of that other moral slump from idealism.

Ingram and Lord and Lady Struthers completely nullifies any arrangement you may have with Governor Thomson regarding her custody.

They have robbed us of our property, they have murdered our citizens while endeavoring to reclaim that property by lawful means, they have set at naught the decrees of the Supreme Court, they have invaded our States and killed our citizens, they have declared their unalterable determination to exclude us altogether from the Territories, they have nullified the laws of Congress, and finally they have capped the mighty pyramid of unfraternal enormities by electing Abraham Lincoln to the Chief Magistracy, on a platform and by a system which indicated nothing but the subjugation of the South and the complete ruin of her social, political and industrial institutions.

Satan had been trying desperately to nullify that situation before it occurred, and all the Incarnations had battled him to preserve it.

The perfect randomness of the one-time system nullifies any horizontal, or lengthwise, cohesion, as in coherent running key or autokey, and its one-time nature bars any vertical assembly in Kasiski or Kerckhoffs columns, as in keys repeated in a single message or among several messages.

Any order she gave Dorion would be nullified by Boolean anyway, so what was the use?

Sandy could vaguely sense that Haz was waiting for something, something which would nullify any advantage the sorcerer had.

America reached full employment while simultaneously nullifying inflation, making obsolete the renowned Phillips Curve of the Keynesian school of economics, which graphically demonstrated that there was a necessary trade-off between unemployment and inflation, i.

Even if I could get there, I doubt that I would have the power to overcome that nullified space and that tremendous short circuit of Markovian energy.

The newspaper says that our traditional Parental Laws have been officially nullified by Rehoboth, and a shooting star might break the world in two.