When in 1832, South Carolina's government quickly "nullified" the hated tariffs passed by the full Congress, President Andrew Jackson declared this an act of open rebellion and ordered U.S. ships to South Carolina to enforce the law.

"They haven't solved the root of the problem," said Ali Benhadjar, who won a parliamentary seat in 1991 as an Islamist candidate and took up arms when a military-led government nullified election results to avert an Islamist victory.

On April 4, exhausted and often sleepy government members inadvertently let one of the NDP amendments pass, and the handful of residents of Cafon Court in Etobicoke were granted the right to a public consultation on the bill, although the government subsequently nullified this with an amendment of its own.

Oh... you mean, the government should have just nullified and/or confiscated the patents without purchasing them first... That would have been awesome indeed.

Along with a few other primary and secondary schools established, the government nullified the imperial examination system and commenced a more institutional system on academic studies and education as a result of the Hundred Days' Reform.

Indeed, referendums constituted an act of defiance in and of themselves as the Moldovan government routinely declared the organization of such referendums illegal and routinely nullified the results.

In 2005 the government of Kenya nullified more than 200 degrees that NIU had awarded in that country.

PAN was able to duplicate its success elsewhere, winning the state of Chihuahua in 1992 and having one of its members appointed governor of Guanajuato in 1991 after the national government nullified a disputed PRI victory.