reinstate
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Last month, Coates flew to Texas in a bid to meet the district attorney in Collin County and to call on him to reinstate the investigation but was told he would not speak to her.
From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2026
On Monday, they announced they were suing to reinstate their access.
From Salon ● Sep. 21, 2026
When Mr. Freeman was promoted to head football coach at Notre Dame in 2021, one of his first priorities was to reinstate pregame Mass for the team.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
San Bernardino County Superior Court Judge Michael Sachs, weighing both state law and a Supreme Court order, rejected an attempt by the Chino Valley Unified School District to reinstate its mandatory parent-notification policy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2026
The soldiers’ job was to reinstate the country’s democratically elected government, in the process stripping power from the junta—a government composed of military leaders—whose corrupt and cruel reign had gone on for three years.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
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The NCAA, meanwhile, is hoping an appeals court reinstates Sorsby’s ban.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 9, 2026
The EU's goal is that Meta reinstates third-party AI assistants' access to WhatsApp under the same conditions as before its October 2025 policy change when it "effectively" barred them.
From Barron's ● Jun. 9, 2026
That language clearly reinstates any federal employee who was either told they’d be laid off during the shutdown or actually laid off.
From Slate ● Dec. 22, 2025
The Heisman Trust reinstates the trophy to Reggie Bush and USC, three years after the era of forbidding college athletes from receiving compensation ended.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 24, 2024
Athens revives the Academe and reinstates the Olympic games under a literary avatar.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 097, January, 1876 by Various
Only 13 inmates have been killed since voters reinstated the death penalty in 1978.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2026
The White House later reinstated their access after a ruling from a judge.
From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026
Sweden reinstated conscription in 2018 and will call up 9,000 recruits this year, compared with 3,500 in 2018.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026
She said that after her employees’ federal badges expired last month, they were eventually reinstated until Oct.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026
And in defiance of Mayor Peters, he reinstated Police Commissioner Curtis and ordered him back on the job immediately.
From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler
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In addition to reinstating gate visitors, the Trump administration is also looking at allowing passengers with TSA PreCheck to take water with them through airport security, according to US media reports.
From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026
If Fedorov and Syrskiy can’t work together, then reinstating Fedorov would require dismissing his top general, whom he handpicked for the job.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026
Speaking during a public comment period Tuesday, Umesh Vazirani, a UC Berkeley professor of electrical engineering and computer sciences, said “the academic case for reinstating the SAT is, in my view, overwhelming.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026
Attorneys for Kil said the university was in the process of reinstating her.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 2026
There was even talk about reinstating Frank’s great-grandfather, Shen Lun, to the legion’s roll of honor.
From "The Son of Neptune" by Rick Riordan
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