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The eighteenth article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States is hereby repealed.† (source)
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They know better than to attack the advocacy community's sacred cows, and they know that no regulation is ever repealed.† (source)
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While government has grown on the whole, we have reformed or repealed many programs ... to excellent effect.† (source)
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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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They regularly petition us for retraction of Creationist theory, formal apologies for Galileo and Copernicus, repeal of our criticism against dangerous or immoral research.† (source)
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Admitting to his ignorance of the real state of things in America—and inferring that this was no uncommon handicap in Parliament—he boldly proposed the repeal of every act concerning America since the incendiary Stamp Act of 1765.† (source)
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I wanted to give her hope that someday the Population Law would be repealed.† (source)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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Hefley's "OSHA Reform Act" would essentially repeal the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970.† (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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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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