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I wanted to give her hope that someday the Population Law would be repealed.† (source)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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He had, as far as Eve could see, benefited from the change of temperature in the country—too lukewarm in her opinion—and the repeal of the Two Term Bill.† (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"Expulsion repealed," the Chancellor said firmly and I felt Ambrose's satisfaction flicker and wane beside me.† (source)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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