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  • If you are able to satisfy your need, your ability annuls your right to satisfy it.†   (source)
  • But Daddy and Miss Muff got together and put an end to that …. real quick …. annulled …. which is a laugh …. because theoretically you can't get an annulment if there's entrance.†   (source)
  • Cause if n you do, or if n you have a mind to after you git over bein' so mad at him, why, we could git this'n annulled.†   (source)
  • "What's 'annulled'?"†   (source)
  • Then they both remarried, and that was weird because my mother insisted on an annulment.†   (source)
  • No, I think, but even if it were, it turned out to be Mitt, some wondrous thing, who will forever annul any of our regret.†   (source)
  • Each had the power to annul or repeal the acts of the other.†   (source)
  • Moon Boy is more like to annul my marriage than he is.†   (source)
  • He sadly wiped his hand clean on the seat, annulling his and Diamond's solemn covenant.†   (source)
  • She had an annulled high school marriage and an abortion behind her.†   (source)
  • When they came to his office for legal advice--tax troubles, some lawsuit, or to ask timidly about an annulment--they grew mysteriously smaller, more childlike, and Hodge, for all his plowhorse dignity, was distressed.†   (source)
  • The marriage was annulled.
  • Blakeslee," she said, her eyes cast down, "I don't want an annulment.†   (source)
  • Then you can get an annulment and marry that other lady.†   (source)
  • Maybe you were trying to say — maybe what you mean is that you, sir, want an annulment.†   (source)
  • But Daddy and Miss Muff got together and put an end to that …. real quick …. annulled …. which is a laugh …. because theoretically you can't get an annulment if there's entrance.†   (source)
  • A fabulous name, she'd thought at the time, a name fit for a stripper, or, even better, a movie star, which made her laugh—the only good thing that had come out of her hasty young marriage, annulled two weeks after they'd eloped.†   (source)
  • If election results need to be annulled, there wouldn't be enough time for the annulment to take effect.†   (source)
  • Any authorities contained in the proposed Constitution that exceed those listed in the Articles of Confederation would be annulled.†   (source)
  • We'll get it annulled."†   (source)
  • If election results need to be annulled, there wouldn't be enough time for the annulment to take effect.†   (source)
  • Also, she must still be either hating Mr. McAllister like poison or else loving his eyes out and having second thoughts about not getting annulled.†   (source)
  • Tried to get the marriage annulled, even made some inquiries about getting Taggert locked up in a hospital himself.†   (source)
  • Well he couldn't, Clive Paxton did get the thing annulled then--I don't know what grounds--and so he won, if you call it that.†   (source)
  • Neither side can annul the acts of the other.†   (source)
  • I'll make an honest man of you, and you annul the marriage.†   (source)
  • And in the last resort, the people will remedy the problem; they can elect more faithful representatives, who can annul the acts of the usurpers.†   (source)
  • What is to guarantee that the attack is not annulled?†   (source)
  • He had given her up for crazy and sent a letter agreeing to an annulment.†   (source)
  • Dominique, if I told you now to have that marriage annulled at once—to forget the world and my struggle—to feel no anger, no concern, no hope—just to exist for me, for my need of you—as my wife—as my property…?†   (source)
  • She had an annulment.†   (source)
  • "All right then, I'll get an annulment.†   (source)
  • There were all kinds of suggestions—that Rex should go to Canada, that Father Mowbray should go to Rome and see if there were any possible grounds for an annulment; that I should go abroad for a year.†   (source)
  • After all, that task would be easier to perform, now that his personal stake in it was annulled.†   (source)
  • But never mind, glory to the mattress which annuls a cannon!†   (source)
  • …conversely, your Renaissance astronomers discovered the truth, and the cosmos is infinite, which means there is no world that transcends the senses, no dualism; the world beyond is absorbed into this world, the polarity of God and nature is annulled, and since the human personality is no longer the battlefield of two hostile principles, but rather harmonious and unified, all human conflict stems from the clash between the interests of the individual and of society as a whole, and so…†   (source)
  • No, good your Majesty, my punishment was appointed for this day, and peradventure it may be annulled, as unbefitting the season of mourning that is come upon us; I know not, and so have made bold to come hither and remind your Grace about your gracious promise to intercede in my behalf—†   (source)
  • Ought to be annulled—†   (source)
  • By these repeals several of the most rigorous laws that ever had passed in England were annulled; and some dawn, both of civil and religious liberty, began to appear to the people.†   (source)
  • The daybeam—even what little of it finds its way into this always dusky parlor—seems part of the universal benediction, annulling evil, and rendering all goodness possible, and happiness attainable.†   (source)
  • It was for this I had annulled the lease—it was for this I had come—it was for this I was waiting.†   (source)
  • That I have some claim to the exercise of a veto here, would not, I believe, be denied by any reasonable person cognizant of the relations between us: relations which, though thrown into the past by your recent procedure, are not thereby annulled in their character of determining antecedents.†   (source)
  • For four years he had thought of Nancy Lammeter, and wooed her with tacit patient worship, as the woman who made him think of the future with joy: she would be his wife, and would make home lovely to him, as his father's home had never been; and it would be easy, when she was always near, to shake off those foolish habits that were no pleasures, but only a feverish way of annulling vacancy.†   (source)
  • It often happens that these two rules differ; they sometimes conflict: but they are never either entirely identified or entirely annulled by one another.†   (source)
  • Peggotty then retired to her lodging, and Mr. Spenlow and I went into Court, where we had a divorce-suit coming on, under an ingenious little statute (repealed now, I believe, but in virtue of which I have seen several marriages annulled), of which the merits were these.†   (source)
  • But if the former system would have invested them with an excessive authority, the latter would have annulled their influence altogether.†   (source)
  • When all living men are enfeebled, the will of the dead is less respected: it is circumscribed within a narrow range, beyond which it is annulled or checked by the supreme power of the laws.†   (source)
  • …in the process, undertakes the education of half-share tenants and the training of farmers, convokes lawyers, presides over notaries, harangues scriveners, visits limbs of the law, follows lawsuits, draws up leases, dictates contracts, feels herself the sovereign, sells, buys, regulates, promises and compromises, binds fast and annuls, yields, concedes and retrocedes, arranges, disarranges, hoards, lavishes; she commits follies, a supreme and personal delight, and that consoles her.†   (source)
  • The Senate has the right of annulling g certain acts of the President; but it cannot compel him to take any steps, nor does it participate in the exercise of the executive power.†   (source)
  • The alternative is clear: either their efforts are powerless against the charter, which continues to exist in spite of them, in which case they only reign in the name of the charter; or they succeed in changing the charter, and then, the law by which they existed being annulled, they themselves cease to exist.†   (source)
  • He was inexhaustible on that infamous date of 1772, on the subject of that noble and valiant race suppressed by treason, and that three-sided crime, on that monstrous ambush, the prototype and pattern of all those horrible suppressions of states, which, since that time, have struck many a noble nation, and have annulled their certificate of birth, so to speak.†   (source)
  • In the course of 1832 the citizens of South Carolina, *b named a national Convention, to consult upon the extraordinary measures which they were called upon to take; and on November 24th of the same year this Convention promulgated a law, under the form of a decree, which annulled the federal law of the tariff, forbade the levy of the imposts which that law commands, and refused to recognize the appeal which might be made to the federal courts of law.†   (source)
  • ] But South Carolina did not consent to leave the Union in the enjoyment of these scanty trophies of success: the same national Convention which had annulled the tariff bill, met again, and accepted the proffered concession; but at the same time it declared it unabated perseverance in the doctrine of Nullification: and to prove what it said, it annulled the law investing the President with extraordinary powers, although it was very certain that the clauses of that law would never be…†   (source)
  • ] It may be conceived that, in the case under consideration, the Union might have used the State before a Federal court, which would have annulled the act, and by this means it would have adopted a natural course of proceeding; but the judicial power would have been placed in open hostility to the State, and it was desirable to avoid this predicament as much as possible.†   (source)
  • Her master or mistress could annul it any day they pleased.†   (source)
  • With no power to annul the elemental evil in him, tho' readily enough he could hide it; apprehending the good, but powerless to be it; a nature like Claggart's surcharged with energy as such natures almost invariably are, what recourse is left to it but to recoil upon itself and like the scorpion for which the Creator alone is responsible, act out to the end the part allotted it.†   (source)
  • There is nothing in the past that can annul our right to each other; it is the first time we have either of us loved with our whole heart and soul.†   (source)
  • The unusual tone, the startling words, arrested Maggie's sob, and she sat quite still, wondering; as if Stephen might have seen some possibilities that would alter everything, and annul the wretched facts.†   (source)
  • The Legislature can condemn him to inaction by intrusting the execution of the laws to special committees of its own members, and can annul his temporary dignity by depriving him of his salary.†   (source)
  • The President is also the executor of the laws, but he does not really co-operate in their formation, since the refusal of his assent does not annul them.†   (source)
  • If a judge in deciding a particular point destroys a general principle, by passing a judgment which tends to reject all the inferences from that principle, and consequently to annul it, he remains within the ordinary limits of his functions.†   (source)
  • "Dougal is no takin' any chances of this marriage bein' annulled."†   (source)
  • Tell Dougal you wanted an annulment on grounds of nonconsummation, I suppose.†   (source)
  • "There's to be no question of it bein' a legal union, and no way open for annulment, or we're all riskin' our necks."†   (source)
  • …morn shall see him rise Out of his grave, fresh as the dawning light, Thy ransom paid, which Man from death redeems, His death for Man, as many as offered life Neglect not, and the benefit embrace By faith not void of works: This God-like act Annuls thy doom, the death thou shouldest have died, In sin for ever lost from life; this act Shall bruise the head of Satan, crush his strength, Defeating Sin and Death, his two main arms; And fix far deeper in his head their stings Than temporal…†   (source)
  • It is an inconvenience mingled with the advantages of our frequent elections even in single States, where they are large, and hold but one legislative session in a year, that spurious elections cannot be investigated and annulled in time for the decision to have its due effect.†   (source)
  • Until the people have, by some solemn and authoritative act, annulled or changed the established form, it is binding upon themselves collectively, as well as individually; and no presumption, or even knowledge, of their sentiments, can warrant their representatives in a departure from it, prior to such an act.†   (source)
  • In the first place, as these constitutions invest the State legislatures with absolute sovereignty, in all cases not excepted by the existing articles of Confederation, all the authorities contained in the proposed Constitution, so far as they exceed those enumerated in the Confederation, would have been annulled, and the new Congress would have been reduced to the same impotent condition with their predecessors.†   (source)
  • Many arguments might have been adduced to prove the unfitness of two such seemingly contradictory authorities, each having power to ANNUL or REPEAL the acts of the other.†   (source)
  • Nor did I deem that thou, a mortal man, Could'st by a breath annul and override The immutable unwritten laws of Heaven.†   (source)
  • In the case particularly under consideration, there is no such contradiction as appears in the example cited; there is no power on either side to annul the acts of the other.†   (source)
  • The joint result of these circumstances would be, that a temporary combination of a few States to intermit the appointment of senators, could neither annul the existence nor impair the activity of the body; and it is not from a general and permanent combination of the States that we can have any thing to fear.†   (source)
  • In the first instance, the success of the usurpation will depend on the executive and judiciary departments, which are to expound and give effect to the legislative acts; and in the last resort a remedy must be obtained from the people who can, by the election of more faithful representatives, annul the acts of the usurpers.†   (source)
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