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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
Mateta also faces an uncertain future after BBC Sport's revelation on Saturday that the France striker has been arguing the final year on his Palace contract should be ruled invalid.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
Moynihan has more than once used “gainsay,” or to declare something as untrue or invalid.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
Asylum cases must be filed within a year of entry in the country, and an invalid claim could lead to deportation proceedings.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026
Other times the princess would watch from her wheeled invalid chair as Penelope sewed.
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
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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
British food manufacturers and brother duo James and William Horlick created malted milk powder as a nutritional supplement marketed for "infants and invalids."
From Salon ● Aug. 21, 2021
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
He reminded me of those aged invalids you see in the poorhouse.
From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank
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Getting invalided out of the 2017 Lions tour caused him untold angst.
From BBC ● Mar. 27, 2023
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
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
Just as Connie Willis salutes the resilience of Brits in her fiction about England during World War II, Kowal pays similar tribute in this novel through her depiction of grandmotherly Mrs. Richardson and invalided Lt.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 4, 2016
"If they are bound to have me invalided, at least let me learn something in the meantime."
From Ralph of the Roundhouse by Allen Chapman
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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A number of medical officers convened to examine sick and wounded officers and men, for invaliding or discharge.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Sir Edward Belcher
This was the first time Aubrey had been considered in condition for such festivities, and the gratification of being superior to somebody might account for his glee in invaliding his friend.
From The Trial by Charlotte Mary Yonge
The aspirant for invaliding sat himself down again at one end of the table, as the captains did at the other.
From Rattlin the Reefer by Frederick Marryat
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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