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repeal

[ri-peel] / rɪˈpil /




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“The California Constitution requires the legislature to go back to the voters if it wishes to amend or repeal a voter-passed law like Prop. 28.”

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 29, 2026

Apple has been one of the law's fiercest critics, calling on the EU to repeal the DMA last year.

From Barron's Jul. 8, 2026

By the time he was in Downing Street he had already promised to repeal the legacy legislation having been ambushed by a member of the audience during at an event in Queen's University, Belfast.

From BBC Jun. 22, 2026

When the board voted 7-2 to repeal the policy with the opt-out language, the audience erupted.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 21, 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

In agreeing to hear the pair of cases, the justices did not disturb the lower court rulings that blocked the repeals for now.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 16, 2026

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

On the existence of this jus commune ecclesiasticum and that the Church of England, in whatever sense independent, takes it over until she repeals it, see Escott v.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 2 "Camorra" to "Cape Colony" by Various

As a result, the passage of Measure G repealed Measure J.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 28, 2026

Although Pope Benedict XVI repealed the excommunication in 2009 in an unsuccessful attempt to heal the rift, Pope Leo is also expected to exclude the new bishops from the Catholic Church.

From BBC Jul. 1, 2026

It repealed the zero-tolerance policy, going so far as to invite revoked dealers to reapply for new licenses.

From Salon Jun. 2, 2026

They should be repealed, and all such powers should be time-limited.

From The Wall Street Journal May 19, 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To the relief of many Americans, including the Coast Guard, Prohibition had been repealed a few months before.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

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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