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• If this influence is so great as to render the pre-determined plan completely nugatory, then, as a rule, a new one must be substituted in its place; but at the moment the necessary data are often wanting for this, because in the course of action circumstances press for immediate decision, and allow no time to look about for fresh data, often not enough for mature consideration. —  Clausewitz, ON WAR - Book I-Chapter 3
• In desperation, Bondo had even sunk to consulting an alchemist, who filled his palace with unpleasant odors and his ears with gibberish, accomplished nothing, and demanded a purse of gold for his nugatory services. —  F ;SF; - vol 101 issue 04-05 - October-November 2001
• These were whether, if no stay is granted, the applicant's right of appeal will rendered nugatory (not valid or ineffective) and whether the successful party would be injuriously affected by the stay. —  Fijilive.com - Gateway to Fiji Islands - News
• If any plan is adopted it will be nugatory, unless recommended by Congress. —  A Report of the Debates and Proceedings in the Secret Sessions of the Conference Convention For Proposing Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, Held at Washington, D.C., in February, A.D. 1861
• I have not made myself acquainted with the actual methods of teaching at present in use, but I know the general effect upon the art of the country What should you say was that effect?--Nearly nugatory: exceedingly painful in this respect, that the teaching of the Academy separates, as the whole idea of the country separates, the notion of art-education from other education, and when you have made that one fundamental mistake, all others follow. —  On the Old Road, Vol. 2 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature

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