nullities

And while our leaders may be moral nullities, they are not idiots.

Matthew Yglesias » The Price of Soldiering

A gaggle of modestly hostile states -- Cuba, Laos, Syria, Venezuela, and whoever else -- are military nullities.

Doug Bandow: How Many Enemies, How Much Military Spending?

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.

Did Hillary "Play The Gender Card"?

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.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Would an Act of Congress Be Required to Allow President Obama To Accept the Nobel Peace Prize?

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.

That divorce will cost $500 million.

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.

Why do Charlotte and James feel they cannot stand?

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.”

A Man for All Reasons

The rest of the chapter includes some examples of reservations being treated as nullities in the human rights context, but not otherwise.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Yet Another Reason Not To Sign the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child:

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.

Chance Abutmenting (a counter-critique of Peter Schjeldahl)

Those clauses are clearly nullities at this time in view of Torcaso v.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Here’s Something Depressing: