repeal
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Cleveland’s repeal of the 1890 Sherman Silver Purchase Act curtailed the monetary expansion that struggling farmers hoped would ease their debts, fracturing congressional Democrats and forcing the president to rely on conservative Republicans.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2026
And in Washington state, voters will consider whether to repeal a newly enacted 9.9% tax on households that earn over $1 million.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 2026
The administration couldn’t repeal healthcare translation laws singlehandedly, Lynette Martins, a professor of health law at DePaul University, told me.
From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2026
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
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
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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
The new policy repeals the previous code, which banned camping only at parks and the beach.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 27, 2025
This year’s bill repeals what’s left of it.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 30, 2024
The act also repeals all former railroad laws.
From The Railroad Question A historical and practical treatise on railroads, and remedies for their abuses by William Larrabee
Congress repealed that law in 1802, before a vacancy arose, and reset the number of justices to six.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
Because the GPO has been repealed, her teacher’s pension will no longer reduce or eliminate her spousal benefit.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So many states had repealed so many firearm regulations that the District of Columbia’s stringent handgun ban looked like a true outlier.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
As a result, the passage of Measure G repealed Measure J.
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Although Prohibition ultimately failed and was repealed, Sunday refused to give up the fight against alcohol, calling for the reintroduction of the Prohibition amendment.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
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The Education Department has moved toward repealing its recognition of the ABA council’s role in accrediting law schools.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 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
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
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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