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  • This was the sight that had drawn her to start the Fugees in the first place, two years back, on a lark and with little appreciation for what she was getting herself into: a group of refugee boys who had survived the unimaginable, strangers now in an unfamiliar land, playing the game with passion, focus, and grace that seemed, for a brief moment anyway, to nullify the effects of whatever misfortune they had experienced in the past.†   (source)
  • Could the Fremen have a way of nullifying shields?†   (source)
  • The actions of the DEVGRU squadrons, targeting the networks of suicide bombers and IEDs in late 2007 and early 2008, nullified the Hollywood perception that tier one teams are reserved for the occasional high-level mission, training for weeks at a site built to replicate their target before embarking upon that mission.†   (source)
  • That will nullify the entire thing.†   (source)
  • The 'M & M' In 'M & M ENTERPRISES' stood for Milo & Minderbinder, and the & was inserted, Milo revealed candidly, to nullify any impression that the syndicate was a one-man operation.†   (source)
  • The contempt order is hereby nullified.†   (source)
  • Written in response to the Alien and Sedition Acts, Jefferson's Kentucky Resolutions declared that each state had a "natural right" to nullify federal actions it deemed unconstitutional.†   (source)
  • Krupkin's strategy for a KGB assault team in civilian clothes had been nullified by the first burst from the Jackal's weapon.†   (source)
  • In a few seconds, Woolf and Seabiscuit had stolen the track from him, nullifying his post-position edge and his legendary early speed.†   (source)
  • The good, say the mystics of spirit, is God, a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive-a definition that invalidates man's consciousness and nullifies his concepts of existence.†   (source)
  • Racists showed high ingenuity in developing schemes to destroy a man's reputation as a means of nullifying his work.†   (source)
  • In them the primitive had long ago been swept aside, been submerged by mechanization, been swamped by scientific development, been nullified by the standardized pattern of the white man's way of life.†   (source)
  • His isolation from either political party, and the antagonisms which he aroused, practically nullified the impact of his own independent and scholarly propositions.†   (source)
  • ... but it was too feeble to nullify the pleasure he felt in being praised.   (source)
  • It nullifies gravity within certain limits prescribed by relative mass and energy consumption.†   (source)
  • I possess the raw power that can nullify your magic.†   (source)
  • If one of these is lost or stolen, it's reported instantly and the internal codes are nullified.†   (source)
  • Nullify thy will before His will that He may nullify the will of others before thy will.†   (source)
  • The same member said they "had no choice but to uphold the regulations of the Commission and to nullify all the victories in which Mr. Thomas was involved."†   (source)
  • When I realized that she had the power to nullify your spells, I knew I had to do something, Dee said.†   (source)
  • The article itself began, "The Tangerine County Sports Commission, meeting in emergency session last night, voted to nullify all victories by the Lake Windsor High School football team over the last three seasons.†   (source)
  • They're all nullified.†   (source)
  • A major civil rights bill was passed in 1964, and if it was controversial, it at least nullified a lot of local discriminatory ordinances.†   (source)
  • One day, bitterly reading and commenting upon the names of each member of the Legislature, he stopped when he came to the "D's" and said he smelled a Nullifier.†   (source)
  • This time the wish was not nullified by his spitting after them.†   (source)
  • I pitied him and did not argue with him, for I knew that persuasion would not nullify his fears.†   (source)
  • He merely added that, to decide the point, we should need first to ascertain if a Genius of Plague actually existed, and our ignorance on this point nullified any opinions we might form.†   (source)
  • Within thesoul, within the body social, there must be—if we are to experience long survival—a continuous "recurrence of birth" (palingenesia) to nullify the unremitting recurrences of death.†   (source)
  • If there is inarticulateness behind it, articulateness is nullified by the immobility of the face itself; if hope or yearning, neither hope nor yearning show.†   (source)
  • I listened, vaguely knowing now that I had committed some awful wrong that I could not undo, that I had uttered words I could not recall even though I ached to nullify them, kill them, turn back time to the moment before I had talked so that I could have another chance to save myself.†   (source)
  • But Bertha nullified this to a degree, by coming to Delia's house to call Sykes out to her at the gate.†   (source)
  • In the featureless electric faces of bulbs hung on the dredges, cranes, cables, the rain looked like nothing either and was nullified.†   (source)
  • In their efforts to nullify my influence in the union, my old comrades were willing to kill the union itself.†   (source)
  • This is a great human law which cannot be permanently nullified.†   (source)
  • Their eight years of friendship and love, THE eight years of his life, were nullified.†   (source)
  • Nothing could nullify it, nothing could take it away; it was almost their belief in life.†   (source)
  • Pierre often indulged in reflections of this sort, nullifying all his decisions and intentions.†   (source)
  • She was thinking that this would certainly demonstrate her control over him to all those others, seeing that it nullified Miss Phant's invitation.†   (source)
  • To let her parents know that she was a deserted wife, dependent, now that she had relieved their necessities, on her own hands for a living, after the eclat of a marriage which was to nullify the collapse of the first attempt, would be too much indeed.†   (source)
  • All life was transmitted into terms of their love, all experience, all desires, all ambitions, were nullified—their senses of humor crawled into corners to sleep; their former love-affairs seemed faintly laughable and scarcely regretted juvenalia.†   (source)
  • The exultation he might have felt at what that implied, or seemed to imply, was nullified by his intention, and he rested rigid till he began: "I have never told you—"†   (source)
  • However he had nullified the force of the enchantment by prayer, and had killed my thirteen knights in a three hours' battle, and taken me prisoner, sparing my life in order that so strange a curiosity as I was might be exhibited to the wonder and admiration of the king and the court.†   (source)
  • It would probably be better to ask for a change of venue so as to nullify the force of such a prejudice.†   (source)
  • Then, after hours of clear reasoning and firm conviction, we snatch at any sophistry that will nullify our long struggles, and bring us the defeat that we love better than victory.†   (source)
  • "Who, my dear?" said Lady Chettam, a charming woman, not so quick as to nullify the pleasure of explanation.†   (source)
  • Arthur had felt a twinge of conscience during Mr. Poyser's speech, but it was too feeble to nullify the pleasure he felt in being praised.†   (source)
  • He experienced not only the bitterness of a man who finds, in looking back upon an ambitious course, that what he has sacrificed in sentiment was worth as much as what he has gained in substance; but the superadded bitterness of seeing his very recantation nullified.†   (source)
  • This new sense of her relation to Philip nullified the anxious scruples she would otherwise have felt, lest she should overstep the limit of intercourse with him that Tom would sanction; and she put out her hand to him, and felt the tears in her eyes without any consciousness of an inward check.†   (source)
  • The banker felt that he had done something to nullify one cause of uneasiness, and yet he was scarcely the easier.†   (source)
  • Hence the mere chance of seeing Will occasionally was like a lunette opened in the wall of her prison, giving her a glimpse of the sunny air; and this pleasure began to nullify her original alarm at what her husband might think about the introduction of Will as her uncle's guest.†   (source)
  • Tom was too clear-sighted not to be aware that Mr. Stelling's standard of things was quite different, was certainly something higher in the eyes of the world than that of the people he had been living amongst, and that, brought in contact with it, he, Tom Tulliver, appeared uncouth and stupid; he was by no means indifferent to this, and his pride got into an uneasy condition which quite nullified his boyish self-satisfaction, and gave him something of the girl's susceptibility.†   (source)
  • Since, thus, the prevision of his own unending bliss could not nullify the bitter savors of irritated jealousy and vindictiveness, it is the less surprising that the probability of a transient earthly bliss for other persons, when he himself should have entered into glory, had not a potently sweetening effect.†   (source)
  • eulogistically of him as a man who might have his weaknesses, but who had done the right thing by her, not-withstanding his numerous poor relations; to have sums of interest coming in more frequently, and secrete it in various corners, baffling to the most ingenious of thieves (for, to Mrs. Glegg's mind, banks and strong-boxes would have nullified the pleasure of property; she might as well have taken her food in capsules); finally, to be looked up to by her own family and the neighborhood, so as no woman can ever hope to be who has not the praeterite and present dignity comprised in being a "widow well left,"—all this made a flattering and conciliatory view of the future.†   (source)
  • Mr. Glegg's unmistakable kind-heartedness was shown in this, that it pained him more to see his wife at variance with others,—even with Dolly, the servant,—than to be in a state of cavil with her himself; and the quarrel between her and Mr. Tulliver vexed him so much that it quite nullified the pleasure he would otherwise have had in the state of his early cabbages, as he walked in his garden before breakfast the next morning.†   (source)
  • And though I do not believe that any change in our relations will occur (certainly none has yet occurred) which can nullify the obligations imposed on me by the past, pardon me for not seeing that those obligations should restrain me from using the ordinary freedom of living where I choose, and maintaining myself by any lawful occupation I may choose.†   (source)
  • To live respected, and have the proper bearers at your funeral, was an achievement of the ends of existence that would be entirely nullified if, on the reading of your will, you sank in the opinion of your fellow-men, either by turning out to be poorer than they expected, or by leaving your money in a capricious manner, without strict regard to degrees of kin.†   (source)
  • But he had just heard something from Standish which, while it justified these surmises about Will, offered a means of nullifying all danger with regard to Dorothea.†   (source)
  • There was a chorus of adhesion from the more courageous; but Mr. Limp, after taking a draught, placed his flat hands together and pressed them hard between his knees, looking down at them with blear-eyed contemplation, as if the scorching power of Mrs. Dollop's speech had quite dried up and nullified his wits until they could be brought round again by further moisture.†   (source)
  • 714, would have surpassed by 221 years the maximum antediluvian age, that of Methusalah, 969 years, while, if Stephen would continue to live until he would attain that age in the year 3072 A.D., Bloom would have been obliged to have been alive 83,300 years, having been obliged to have been born in the year 81,396 B.C. What events might nullify these calculations?†   (source)
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