Definitions
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- n. Plural form of nullity.
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Examples
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And while our leaders may be moral nullities, they are not idiots.
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A gaggle of modestly hostile states -- Cuba, Laos, Syria, Venezuela, and whoever else -- are military nullities.
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Most of her hard-core supporters seem to think that, deep inside, behind the focus-group tested, consultant-written platitudes and semantic nullities of her robotic campaign, there's a "real Hillary" who believes exactly what they believe, but she has to hide her real principals to get elected.
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On the contrary, if a particular legislature, differing in the construction of the constitution, from a series of preceding constructions, proceed to act on that difference, they not only introduce uncertainty and instability in the constitution, but in the laws themselves; inasmuch as all laws preceding the new construction, and inconsistent with it, are not only annulled for the future, but virtually pronounced nullities from the beginning.
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That's why Newt Gingrich, married twice but NEVER within the meaning of the church, could go through the process to declare those unions nullities and be welcomed into the Roman Catholic Church with full benefits.
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Your friend Carswell is on the right track: unless and until backbench MPs count again, they might as well be nullities and any who are not will find life difficult.
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Explaining why in an exchange with Beinart on Slate, he predicted that the war in Iraq “renders the grand visions for liberal internationalism that you and I share useless nullities, for a generation, maybe more.”
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The rest of the chapter includes some examples of reservations being treated as nullities in the human rights context, but not otherwise.
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Since Ryman's canvases are complete nullities in every way, Schjeldahl is forced to begin describing the frames to us from the start; and the frames are, of course, not worth mentioning either.
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Those clauses are clearly nullities at this time in view of Torcaso v.
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