The bush-cheney years saw a remarkable abrogation of civil liberties in the name of fighting terrorism , and the descent into torture showed how easily fear can bring even a modern democracy over to the dark side .
4 The history of us debt is not unblemished . Reinhart and rogoff report that the us never defaulted on its sovereign external debt but that the abrogation of the gold clause in 1934 constituted a domestic default .
My suspicion is there might be some selective contract abrogation , combined with some penalties for the domestic players to prevent recurrence of the problems in future .
我怀疑,有关方面可能会有选择性地终止一些合约,并处罚一些国内企业,以防止今后再次出现此类问题。
And since this would require a treaty change , do we really expect all 27 countries to vote for an abrogation of such fundamental rights ?
Tensions have climbed recently , with north korean missile launches , a nuclear test , abrogation of a sea boundary agreement and repeated threats of war .