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repeal

[ri-peel] / rɪˈpil /




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The repeal will primarily affect California and nine other Western states, which are home to more than 95% of inventoried roadless areas, the agency said.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 18, 2026

Ms. Boden is director of Constitutional Scholarship at the Pacific Legal Foundation, which has asked the Plymouth board to repeal its rule.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 17, 2026

There have been hunger strikes demanding farmers' rights, affirmative action, environmental protections, anti-corruption laws and the repeal of controversial security legislation.

From BBC Jul. 16, 2026

Hochul also said she would pursue legislation to repeal sales tax exemptions for massive data centers in the state.

From Barron's Jul. 14, 2026

As the news of the repeal was broadcast over the radio, stores like New York’s Gimbels and Bloomingdale’s immediately opened their liquor departments.

From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler

Last week, the government introduced a new law that repeals and rebrands the scheme.

From BBC Dec. 22, 2025

A major wave of repeals took place in 1985, when Minnesota, South Carolina, and Texas eliminated their blue laws.

From Science Daily Dec. 20, 2025

And these repeals would bar the targeted agency from ever taking a “substantially” similar action again.

From Slate May 14, 2025

This year’s bill repeals what’s left of it.

From Seattle Times Apr. 30, 2024

She repeals but a single law, repeals it by the action of a sovereign convention, leaves her constitution, her laws, her political and social polity untouched.

From American Eloquence, Volume 4 Studies In American Political History (1897) by Alexander Johnston

Arkansas, Montana and South Carolina voluntarily repealed racial quotas for public bodies after lawsuits based on the Equal Protection Clause.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 17, 2026

Because the GPO has been repealed, her teacher’s pension will no longer reduce or eliminate her spousal benefit.

From MarketWatch Aug. 10, 2026

So many states had repealed so many firearm regulations that the District of Columbia’s stringent handgun ban looked like a true outlier.

From Slate Aug. 3, 2026

The charter amendment ballot measure approved Tuesday would avoid that result and restore the inadvertently repealed funding.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 28, 2026

Although Prohibition ultimately failed and was repealed, Sunday refused to give up the fight against alcohol, calling for the reintroduction of the Prohibition amendment.

From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler

Forest Service, said this week that repealing the rule would give local agencies more authority over land management issues and help reduce barriers to wildfire risk reduction.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 18, 2026

In 2020, I calculated that repealing the firewall would lead to $2.2 trillion in higher subsidy spending over a decade for the estimated 24 million people who would switch from employer coverage to the exchanges.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 11, 2026

By repealing Balogun's ban, it can only make life more difficult for them.

From BBC Jul. 5, 2026

However, repealing the earnings test would likely lead to more people claiming Social Security early, hastening the system’s impending insolvency.

From MarketWatch Jun. 15, 2026

Professor Dash asked me whether I took any encouragement from the government’s stated intention of repealing die mixed-marriage laws and certain other apartheid statutes.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela




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