0 to make a legal agreement or decision have no legal force: --
1 to cause an agreement or result to be no longer effective or consider it as not existing: --
2 to make a legal agreement or decision no longer have any legal force: --
3 to cause something to have no value or effect: --
The US stated that any reductions in greenhouse gases by the West must not be nullified by increased emissions from developing nations.
A suit has been filed against the directors, charging them with conspiring to nullify a shareholder vote.
There is a reduction in food subsidies, but this has been much nullified by the increase in old age pensions and family allowances.
Moreover, even if this difficulty is surmounted, the charter of rights can always be in effect largely nullified by the ill-will of the majority.
Thus, the flow of funds from one country to another has been nullified.
Of course, these methods of coming to the rescue of the traditionally depressed areas will be nullified if our railway system is abolished.
The practical difficulties have been correctly identified and need attention, because bad practice may end up nullifying an idea that is sound in other respects.
On the contrary, that leads to the great benefit of the right to asylum being nullified.
Even when legislatures enacted eight-hour laws, for example, legislators often included loopholes that nullified them, or public executives enforced them irregularly, or the courts enervated them.
Standardization for duration is therefore imperative, and while the official compiler rightly follows this procedure his results are nullified by the inadequacy of the duration data available to him.
