Sample Sentences forrepeal (auto-selected)
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We'll repeal the population limitation laws.† (source)
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But the terrorist attacks in New York City on September 11, 2001, and threats of terrorism and global conflict seemed to disrupt the progress toward a repeal of capital punishment.† (source)
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It appeared dry and cold; but at the bottom was dotted in with pencil an obscure apology, and an entreaty for kind remembrance and reconciliation, if her proceeding had offended him: asserting that she could not help it then, and being done, she had now no power to repeal it.† (source)
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I wanted to give her hope that someday the Population Law would be repealed.† (source)
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In 1844 he succeeded in getting the House to repeal the gag rule.† (source)
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Its repeal would not solve all of our problems, but it would be an enormous relief.† (source)
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At the behest of a joint planning council consisting of Dr. Moroka, Walter, J. B. Marks, Yusuf Dadoo, and Yusuf Cachalia, the ANC conference endorsed a resolution calling upon the government to repeal the Suppression of Communism Act, the Group Areas Act, the Separate Representation of Voters Act, the Bantu Authorities Act, the pass laws, and stock limitation laws by February 29, 1952.† (source)
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"Expulsion repealed," the Chancellor said firmly and I felt Ambrose's satisfaction flicker and wane beside me.† (source)
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It hath sovereign and uncontrollable authority in the making, confirming, enlarging, restraining, abrogating, repealing, reviving, and expounding of laws, concerning matters of all possible denominations; ecclesiastical or temporal; civil, military, maritime, or criminal; this being the place where that absolute despotic power which must, in all governments, reside somewhere, is intrusted by the constitution of these kingdoms.† (source)
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It incorporates the principle of consent into British constitutional law and repeals the Government of Ireland Act of 1920.† (source)
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To tyrants others have their country sold, Imposing foreign lords, for foreign gold; Some have old laws repeal'd, new statutes made, Not as the people pleas'd, but as they paid; With incest some their daughters' bed profan'd: All dar'd the worst of ills, and, what they dar'd, attain'd.† (source)
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They insist, and say they believe, that treaties, like legislative acts, should be repealable at pleasure.† (source)standard suffix: The suffix "-able" means able to be. This is the same pattern you see in words like breakable, understandable, and comfortable.
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Let legislators pass laws only with a two-thirds majority ....while the repealers are able to cancel any law through a mere one-third minority.† (source)
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In 1854, men talked of Kansas and Nebraska, and of the Little Giant—Stephen Douglas, the handsome black-haired Senator from Illinois—who was trying to persuade the Senate to repeal the slavery restriction clause in the Missouri Compromise, as part of his Kansas-Nebraska Bill.† (source)
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Heavenly is always looking that way, towards the Gulf, so that the light from Point Lookout catches her face with its repealed soft stroke of clarity.† (source)
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The ANC drafted a letter to the prime minister advising him of these resolutions and the deadline for repealing the laws.† (source)
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