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repeal

[ri-peel] / rɪˈpil /




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Proposition 4 would repeal a 1988 ban on the public funding of campaigns and allow all local and state governments to offer public financing programs with certain conditions.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

Givan announced his department was to repeal the SDC criterion and was launching a consultation, external to gather views on whether new legislation was also needed.

From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026

Last year, Rehl’s group and others demanded that Soto-Martínez follow through on his promise and repeal the zones within his district.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026

In the immediate aftermath of the repeal of the proposed legislation, this academic postmortem, published in the monthly peer-reviewed journal Health Affairs, speculated that the MCCA’s failure was, indeed, partly due to financial reasons.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 18, 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

"So if there were laws in our statute book in 1994, the constitution explicitly says they remain in force until parliament repeals them, abolishes them or changes them," he adds.

From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026

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

When asked by Batch if someone wearing a mask for health purposes in public would be violating the law, a legislative staff member said it would, because the bill repeals the exemption.

From Seattle Times ● May 14, 2024

She recounted her long service in the woman's rights cause, and gave a brief history of the different enactments and repeals on the question for the last thirty years.

From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III by Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Despite this, the ABA has enjoyed an accreditation monopoly, which state policies have further entrenched, though some of those are now being reconsidered or repealed.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 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Because the GPO has been repealed, her teacher’s pension will no longer reduce or eliminate her spousal benefit.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

To the relief of many Americans, including the Coast Guard, Prohibition had been repealed a few months before.

From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield

“Changing that takes a lot more than repealing a law,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 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

Tuesday's vote came after the lower house last week backed repealing outdated slavery legislation that was never annulled despite the practice being abolished in 1848.

From Barron's ● Jun. 2, 2026

It is as if anyone who proposed repealing a stupid law, like the one forbidding interracial marriage, must be a black-cloaked, bomb-clutching anarchist.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker




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