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repeal
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  • I wanted to give her hope that someday the Population Law would be repealed.†  (source)
  • In 1844 he succeeded in getting the House to repeal the gag rule.†  (source)
  • 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)
  • "Expulsion repealed," the Chancellor said firmly and I felt Ambrose's satisfaction flicker and wane beside me.†  (source)
  • 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)
  • It incorporates the principle of consent into British constitutional law and repeals the Government of Ireland Act of 1920.†  (source)
  • 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)
  • 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.
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Heavenly is always looking that way, towards the Gulf, so that the light from Point Lookout catches her face with its repealed soft stroke of clarity.†  (source)
  • 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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