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quashed
verb as in destroy, defeat
verb as in nullify, cancel
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Ms Bolton said that because the system for compensation has changed, it is no longer automatically paid out to those who leave prison having had their convictions quashed.
It is the second Lincolnshire fossil fuel development to be quashed in recent months, with the decision to approve exploratory drilling and extraction at Biscathorpe overturned in July following a legal challenge.
Allowing the appeal, Dame Siobhan quashed his original sentence and imposed a revised minimum tariff.
Two-thirds of House Republicans supported the scheme, but Democrats and moderate Republicans quashed it.
Instead, five black and mixed-race men were arrested and charged with murder before their convictions were quashed by the Court of Appeal.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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