repeal
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Now, a group of students from the University of Chicago are pushing to repeel — ahem, repeal that law.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 21, 2026
In a statement Manx Duty of Care said it was "deeply disappointed" with the announcement, calling for "new members of Tynwald to table a bill to repeal it at once".
From BBC ● 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
This new law, though still compulsory, repeals some of the features of the previous legislation which were most obnoxious to the unions.
From Socialism As It Is A Survey of The World-Wide Revolutionary Movement by William English Walling
Now, a group of students at the University of Chicago is trying to have the law repealed.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 2026
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monopoly, which state policies have further entrenched, though some of those are now being reconsidered or repealed.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
So many states had repealed so many firearm regulations that the District of Columbia’s stringent handgun ban looked like a true outlier.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The charter amendment ballot measure approved Tuesday would avoid that result and restore the inadvertently repealed funding.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
Concessions were made here and there, some laws were repealed, others simply weren’t enforced.
From "Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood" by Trevor Noah
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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
“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
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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