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repeal

[ri-peel] / rɪˈpil /




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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

In 2024 a referendum to repeal it failed, 49.9% to 50.1%.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026

The 2022 measure “did not repeal, relax, or extend the City’s three-term limit. Rather, it clarified that a full term may exceed four years when authorized by state law,” Leon’s lawyers wrote.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026

The USDA’s notice of intent to repeal the rule, announced last August, brought in more than 600,000 public comments, the vast majority of which were opposed to the plan.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026

The protesters had issued an ultimatum, demanding that the government repeal the Black Act.

From "Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science" by Marc Aronson

"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

The new policy repeals the previous code, which banned camping only at parks and the beach.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 27, 2025

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

Congress repealed that law in 1802, before a vacancy arose, and reset the number of justices to six.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026

“The ‘Full Fare Rule’ is a vital underpinning of modern flight shopping and must not be repealed or watered down in any way,” wrote Jason Rabinowitz on July 8.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026

Because the GPO has been repealed, your wife’s teacher pension will no longer reduce or eliminate her spousal benefit.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So many states had repealed so many firearm regulations that the District of Columbia’s stringent handgun ban looked like a true outlier.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

These record losses took place during Prohibition itself, so perhaps Elizebeth drew a breath of relief when the policy was repealed in 1933.

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

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

Max Mathiasin, a lawmaker from the former colony turned overseas territory of Guadeloupe who is championing the bill, last week said repealing the decrees would be a "powerful symbolic and political gesture".

From Barron's ● May 28, 2026

But along the way, it provides an argument for repealing it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 20, 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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