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A three-judge bench ruled that the pardon granted by then president Maithripala Sirisena in May 2019 was "arbitrary and invalid".
From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 2026
The deputy federal public defenders said a defense analysis identified invalid service as acting or de facto U.S. attorneys in at least 16 districts across the country.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026
Jean-Philippe Mateta is arguing the remainder of his Crystal Palace contract is invalid and has taken his case to Fifa.
From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2026
Moynihan has more than once used “gainsay,” or to declare something as untrue or invalid.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
The arrival of the tray, carried up the stairs as if for an invalid.
From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood
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Advice about food preparation for "invalids", "convalescents" or "the sickroom" would commonly take up an entire section of cookbooks.
From Salon ● Sep. 1, 2022
Patient outcomes varied depending on whether you asked the officer who lost fighters, the ferryman who shuttled the sick, the doctor who treated invalids or the adjutant who buried bodies.
From Scientific American ● Jul. 23, 2022
Wealthy invalids flocked to the south Devon town for its sunshine and sea air.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 15, 2021
Tuesday's voting was reserved for the aged, invalids, people in hospitals and the military.
From Fox News ● Apr. 26, 2019
By this time, Vincent and McNeish were complete invalids and stayed in the cave in a stupor.
From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong
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Last August, the U.S. military’s top appeals court upheld Bergdahl’s conviction, rejecting arguments that public comments by Trump and McCain should have invalided his prosecution, Military.com reported.
From Fox News ● Feb. 18, 2021
Three years later, he was invalided out of the service with stomach ulcers.
From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2020
He knows that the old songs give “the invalided and senile a musical opportunity to re-court their wives, re-raise their children and re-fight their wars.”
From New York Times ● Sep. 21, 2017
Soon he was back in the trenches, but then invalided home where he got classified B-1, “fit for garrison service abroad”.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 28, 2016
On his return invalided to England in the following February, Evans received the thanks of the House of Commons.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 1 "Evangelical Church Conference" to "Fairbairn, Sir William" by Various
There he called on Senator James A. .Reed of Missouri, who is invaliding from a recent illness.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The next in seniority was entirely adverse to the invaliding, as, without he could invalide too, he would have to go to the West Indies in the place of our surgeon.
From Rattlin the Reefer by Frederick Marryat
It may correct some errors, and prepare you for next invaliding day.
From Rattlin the Reefer by Frederick Marryat
In hospital they are always professing to a recovery from fever that their pallid faces and enlarged spleens belie, and they take not kindly to any suggestion of invaliding.
From Sketches of the East Africa Campaign by Robert Valentine Dolbey
Invalided to India 50 As above, includes instances of invaliding more than one as separate items.
From With a Highland Regiment in Mesopotamia 1916—1917 by Anonymous
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