Vitiated

By such preference is our superior and supreme regard for Jesus and his word vitiated or invalidated? ❋ William Ware (1824)

I have called vitiated air (§ 29), with 4 parts of our fire-air, and placed the bottle, inverted and open, in a vessel which was also filled with a solution of liver of sulphur. ❋ Carl Wilhelm Scheele (1764)

The attraction which the blood has for phlogiston cannot be so strong as that with which plants and insects attract it from the air, and then the blood cannot convert air into aerial acid; still it becomes converted into an air which lies midway between fire-air and aerial acid, that is, a vitiated air; for it unites neither with lime nor with water after the manner of fire-air and it extinguishes fire, after that of aerial acid. ❋ Carl Wilhelm Scheele (1764)

According to her own notes and this account in today's Sun-Sentinel, Jeck asked whether the rationale for Scalia's well-known opposition to cameras in the Supreme Court was "vitiated" by the facts that the Court allows public visitors to view arguments and releases full argument transcripts to the public, and that justices go out on book tours. ❋ Ann Althouse (2009)

The court noted that, as a practical matter, the "all elements" rule informs a doctrine of equivalents analysis by requiring that equivalence be assessed on a limitation-by-limitation basis, rather than from the perspective of the invention as a whole, and that no limitation be read completely out of the claim i.e., "vitiated". ❋ Peter Zura (2006)

Swaraj noted that the atmosphere was "vitiated" and therefore the leaders thought that it was "inappropriate" to attend the lunch. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The book promotion led Florida Atlantic University student Sarah Jeck to ask Scalia if the Supreme Court's opposition to having its proceedings televised was "vitiated" by, among other things, "Supreme Court justices going out on book tours." ❋ Unknown (2009)

As Tony Mauro explained, Jeck "asked whether the rationale for Scalia's well-known opposition to cameras in the Supreme Court was 'vitiated' by the facts that the Court allows public visitors to view arguments and releases full argument transcripts to the public, and that justices go out on book tours." ❋ Unknown (2009)

"vitiated" because, shortly after the provision was enacted, the Supreme Court held in, ❋ Unknown (2009)

The prime minister has vitiated the atmosphere by an unnecessary comment, Swaraj said. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that the special court's decision to permit the Custodian to sell 54,88,850 shares belonging to the family of late stock market scamster Harshad Mehta of Apollo Tyres Ltd was "vitiated" and done in violation of "principles of natural justice." ❋ DEALS INDIA STAFF (2011)

TNR, on the other hand, is not serious; its domestic liberalism is a joke, and its discussion of ethics in foreign affairs is vitiated of any seriousness by its hypocrisy (eg, collective punishment of Israeli civilians is abhorrent; collective punishment of Palestinian civilians is a-ok). ❋ Unknown (2009)

However, Nouri's joy has been fleeting, vitiated by the reality that the blood of innocents continues to stain the streets of his homeland. ❋ Michael Hughes (2011)

In a vitiated party system, the center lost to two candidates on either side of the spectrum--Keiko Fujimori, the daughter of Alberto Fujimori who governed from 1990 to 2000 and is now jailed for corruption and human rights violations, and Humala. ❋ Christopher Sabatini (2011)

The granting of mayoral control throughout the country has further vitiated local control of schools in urban areas. ❋ Marc Epstein (2011)

President Reagan repudiated Protocol 1 in 1987 because it vitiated the distinction between lawful and unlawful enemy combatants. ❋ Unknown (2011)

All Political thinking for years has been vitiated in the same way. ❋ Unknown (2010)