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Alfried Krupp would rather not take advantage of this temporary escape clause; instead, he is hoping that the Allies will annul the sales agreement and leave Krupp with all its empire.

From Time Magazine Archive

Let us hope that the good common sense of the in-coming half-century will annul the divorce, and again unite on a solid basis spheres that should never have been so far sundered.

From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 5, May, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various

My monarch in my person is insulted, He will annul the marriage contract.

From Mary Stuart by Schiller, Friedrich

An English court will annul Irish Acts; English revenue officers will collect Irish customs, and every penny of the Irish customs will pass into the English Exchequer.

From A Leap in the Dark A Criticism of the Principles of Home Rule as Illustrated by the Bill of 1893 by Dicey, Albert Venn

"Rights," whether of persons or of nations, may be abstractions well-founded in law or philosophy, but the modern world sooner or later will annul them.

From Cambridge Essays on Education by Various