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The University did not rescind its position and Mr. McAdams Monday filed suit in Milwaukee County Circuit Court on grounds that the school has abrogated academic freedoms it guarantees.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 5, 2016

Scott charges that the Forest Service has abrogated its responsibility to maintain the road for public use.

From Los Angeles Times • May 2, 2016

If it has abrogated the rule of law, justice, transparency and accountability — and it appears it has — then, to put it crudely, the terrorists have won.

From Salon • Dec. 17, 2014

Another old ally, Egypt, has abrogated its Treaty of Friendship and Cooperation with the Soviet Union.

From Time Magazine Archive

Neonomianism, nē-ō-nō′mi-an-izm, n. the doctrine that the gospel is a new law, and that faith has abrogated the old moral obedience.—n.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various