stripped

Example Sentences

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This would require the bill to be stripped of the problematic provisions before it was passed, with MSPs trusting that Westminster would then reinsert them into the act.

From BBC

The end is nigh for hereditary peers, whose inherited right to sit in the House of Lords is set to be stripped from them after the passage of a new law this week.

From BBC

Even the prosecutor touring a buried villa that’s become a crime scene, illegally stripped of its frescoes, bemoans what’s been lost when thieves rob a people of their ancestors’ memories.

From Los Angeles Times

Their connections to the late financier have seen both men lose positions, with Mountbatten-Windsor stripped of his royal titles and Lord Mandelson sacked as the UK's ambassador to the US.

From BBC

Prosecutors have also demanded that relatives of one of the gunmen be stripped of their Russian citizenship.

From Barron's