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  • One afternoon, after he had refused to do the schoolwork they brought to him, his television privileges had been revoked.†   (source)
  • He'd already told us that one word about the Whisperer gets your Messenger status revoked — and believe me, no Messenger wants to chance that.†   (source)
  • "You considered Smith?" said Harry, revoked.†   (source)
  • If you don't turn that boat around and return to this island immediately, you will be found in violation of Section 509 of the Uniform Maritime Act, you will he subject to revocation of license, penalties in excess of fifty thousand dollars, and five years in jail.†   (source)
  • Caroline joined my father in invoking the revocation clause.†   (source)
  • But if he revokes the laws he has made and tacks and comes about till the ship is on her beam ends, then finally we will be forced to cut the hawser.†   (source)
  • "No," answered Tita, astonished that the sentence of silence had been revoked.†   (source)
  • South Korea's safety rating was downgraded by the US Federal Aviation Authority, and Canadian officials informed Korean Air's management that they were considering revoking the company's overflight and landing privileges in Canadian airspace.†   (source)
  • In a scathing five-page document filled with exclamation points, he accused Southam and Mandel of fraud and unprofessional conduct, and demanded that the Board of Regents of the University of the State of New York revoke their medical licenses.†   (source)
  • Enrique's license is revoked for a week.†   (source)
  • Besides firing Carla, she's also revoked my Internet privileges and canceled my in-person architecture lesson with Mr. Waterman.†   (source)
  • Without her parents' financial support, which they have currently revoked, Lilly Tells It Like It Is cannot go on.†   (source)
  • He went on a nine-day drunk, awoke in one of the deeper hive tunnels of Lusus with his military cornlog implant stolen-by someone who apparently had taken a correspondence course in surgery-his universal card and farcaster access revoked, and his head exploring new frontiers of pain.†   (source)
  • The next day the committee revoked it—second thoughts, after a night spent dreaming of freak winds and shrieking steel and two thousand lives gone in a wink.†   (source)
  • The information we have says that her passport was revoked years ago, so Fiona is probably still in the UK.†   (source)
  • Creativity or the lack of it had no bearing on these things; to do them was as foolish as issuing a proclamation revoking the law of gravity or trying to play table-tennis with a brick.†   (source)
  • The women began to call once more, each raising an arm to revoke the action.†   (source)
  • Karna the Warrior could not make that promise, for if he did, he would have to revoke another one.†   (source)
  • If I were to simply revoke all the choices of independence, the world as you know it would cease to exist and love would have no meaning.†   (source)
  • The Council of Cloven Elders has revoked Grover's searcher's license in absentia.†   (source)
  • But we have also had a strong relationship with Abnegation in the past, and we do not think it is right to revoke the hand of friendship when it has for so long been extended.†   (source)
  • If he wakes up and has any reason, any reason at all, to revoke your pardon, he will.†   (source)
  • The Guardianship Agency is bound to conduct an annual review to see whether any cause exists for revoking a guardianship.†   (source)
  • My father ran to right and left, exhausted, comforting friends, running to the Jewish Council to see if the edict had not been revoked in the meantime.†   (source)
  • The C.D.C. also temporarily revoked the licenses of three companies, Hazleton Research Products, the Charles River Primates Corporation, and Worldwide Primates, charging these companies with violations of quarantine rules.†   (source)
  • Criminals who would have previously been set free—for drug-related offenses and parole revocation in particular—were instead locked up.†   (source)
  • Extracurricular prison cooking happened primarily in two communal microwaves that were placed in kitchenette areas between the Dorms; their use was a privilege the staff constantly (and with great enjoyment) threatened to revoke.†   (source)
  • In 2011, the federal government revoked Arpaio's authority to identify and detain immigrants.†   (source)
  • He'd get probation, maybe have his license revoked, but he wouldn't end up behind bars.†   (source)
  • Once the Goddess touches someone, she rarely revokes what she has given.†   (source)
  • Revocation of nationality.†   (source)
  • , finally, is his parole revocation hearing.†   (source)
  • This is a privilege that's been revoked.†   (source)
  • Our exercise and shower privileges were revoked for a week, as if this had been our fault in the first place, and forty-three hours passed before I was allowed a visit from the prison nurse, Alma, who smelled of lemons and linen; and who had a massive coiled tower of braided hair that, I imagined, required architectural intervention in order for her to sleep.†   (source)
  • And a second will dated September 7 of last year, though this will was expressly revoked by the handwritten will.†   (source)
  • John Adams's powers as sole peacemaker with Britain were revoked.†   (source)
  • Then his certificate was revoked, and he was sent away.†   (source)
  • It was said that in the wilderness of the Middle West, he murdered a state legislator who attempted to revoke a charter granted to him, to revoke it when his rail was laid halfway across the state; some legislators had planned to make a fortune on Taggart stock-by selling it short.†   (source)
  • Do you revoke your word?†   (source)
  • Passport Revoked: they stamp it in red across your forehead.†   (source)
  • This is the same as saying that a party to a contract has a right to revoke that contract.†   (source)
  • As they walked side by side, Peters and he, along the interminable corridors, through the cursory customs and immigration check, and still no familiar face turned to greet him, he realized that his anxiety had in reality been hope; hope that somehow his tacit decision to go on would be revoked by circumstance.†   (source)
  • "They're probably going to revoke your license, but even if they don't, I will, if you do it again.†   (source)
  • The authorities took my statement, revoked my license, and covered things up as best they could.†   (source)
  • The only thing that sticks in my head is that it has a clock, and we must be back inside 13 by the designated hour or our hunting privileges will be revoked.†   (source)
  • What if the Chancellor woke up and revoked her pardon, and then Luke did something stupid and admitted the truth about the pregnancy?†   (source)
  • Your searcher's license is revoked!†   (source)
  • Newsteeps followed to New Jerusalem and then attempted to follow to Dan, but military police overrode their chartered EMVs, threw a dozen in jail as an example, and revoked the farcaster visas of the rest.†   (source)
  • I—or rather, my sister, Annika—will fight to see that she is acquitted, and that her declaration of incompetence is revoked.†   (source)
  • After researching the Klan's corporate charter, Kennedy wrote to the governor of Georgia suggesting the grounds upon which the charter should be revoked: the Klan had been designated a nonprofit, non-political organization, but Kennedy had proof that it was clearly devoted to both profits and politics.†   (source)
  • A few weeks later, and again in secret session, on a motion from James Madison, Adams's second prior commission, to negotiate a treaty of commerce with Britain, was also revoked.†   (source)
  • Either Eva or Sara will show them to the new filings, where they will gawk at the thin, handwritten will, one that specifically revoked and denounced the thick one they so cherished, and the war will begin.†   (source)
  • I imagine it will be the lead story on all the news broadcasts this evening…… " At 6:00 that evening Judge Iversen decided to release Salander and to revoke her declaration of incompetence.†   (source)
  • I will demand that my client be acquitted of all charges, that her declaration of incompetence be revoked, and that she be released.†   (source)
  • On August 24, with the arrival of a packet of letters from Congress sent on by Franklin from Paris, Adams learned that his commission as peacemaker had been revoked and a new commission established.†   (source)
  • The future of Canada's international relationship may depend upon the revocation of these Orders.†   (source)
  • They stated that my father had chosen to avail himself of the revocation clause in the preincorporation agreement, which stated that Rose's and my shares in the farm were revocable under certain conditions of "mismanagement or abuse."†   (source)
  • It was elegantly phrased and amounted to the first building block in the revocation of her declaration of incompetence.†   (source)
  • "Then, at the last minute, Seth prepares this crude document that revokes the proper will, leaves virtually everything to his black housekeeper, and guarantees that much of what he's trying to give away will be eaten up in estate taxes.†   (source)
  • Guests poured from the booths, transformed from one age into another, their faces covered with dominoes, the very act of putting on a mask revoking all their licenses to pick a quarrel with fantasy and horror.†   (source)
  • It was not her curiosity alone that prompted her to action; it was a secret fear that the sentence of the Board might be revoked.†   (source)
  • After failing to induce Fremont to revoke his proclamation voluntarily, Lincoln promptly countermanded it.†   (source)
  • I would wish him three crowns rather than one, And as for the bishops, it is not my yoke That is laid upon them, or mine to revoke.†   (source)
  • Thus I might proclaim myself a madman, but not revoke the sentence passed upon my wretched victim.†   (source)
  • And is there no means of making him revoke his decision?†   (source)
  • Ah, Senora, let me tell you his sentence—the sentence I have had the honor and happiness to revoke for you.†   (source)
  • Should he apply directly to Mr. Brooke, and demand of that troublesome gentleman to revoke his proposal?†   (source)
  • I knew what the man meant; that if the missing slave was found, the postponement would be revoked, the execution take place to-day.†   (source)
  • Indeed,' said she, 'if I could altogether cancel the remembrance that Mr. Sparsit was a Powler, or that I myself am related to the Scadgers family; or if I could even revoke the fact, and make myself a person of common descent and ordinary connexions; I would gladly do so.†   (source)
  • In making it, he revoked.†   (source)
  • …to that effect; but the Institution, having been unfortunate enough, a few months before, to save the life of a poor relation to whom he paid a weekly allowance of three shillings and sixpence, he had, in a fit of very natural exasperation, revoked the bequest in a codicil, and left it all to Mr Godfrey Nickleby; with a special mention of his indignation, not only against the society for saving the poor relation's life, but against the poor relation also, for allowing himself to be…†   (source)
  • Let it be known to them, as I make it known to you, that being of sound mind, memory, and understanding, I revoke no disposition I have made in her favour.†   (source)
  • The yesterday, which could never be revoked,—if she could have changed it now for any length of inward silent endurance, she would have bowed beneath that cross with a sense of rest.†   (source)
  • A grant made by the State to a private individual, and accepted by him, is a contract, and cannot be revoked by any future law.†   (source)
  • Miss Crawley was now in the habit of writing to Mr. Waxy her solicitor almost every day in the week, for her arrangements respecting her property were all revoked, and her perplexity was great as to the future disposition of her money.†   (source)
  • Mr. Farebrother played a rubber to satisfy his mother, who regarded her occasional whist as a protest against scandal and novelty of opinion, in which light even a revoke had its dignity.†   (source)
  • But on the morning of that day Lydgate had to learn that Rosamond had revoked his order to Borthrop Trumbull.†   (source)
  • Where then had Peter meant the rest of the money to go—and where the land? and what was revoked and what not revoked—and was the revocation for better or for worse?†   (source)
  • But if he had not received any money—if Bulstrode had never revoked his cold recommendation of bankruptcy—would he, Lydgate, have abstained from all inquiry even on finding the man dead?†   (source)
  • He sat in unaltered calm, and, in fact, the company, preoccupied with more important problems, and with the complication of listening to bequests which might or might not be revoked, had ceased to think of him.†   (source)
  • The second will revoked everything except the legacies to the low persons before mentioned (some alterations in these being the occasion of the codicil), and the bequest of all the land lying in Lowick parish with all the stock and household furniture, to Joshua Rigg.†   (source)
  • Being inarticulate, it was dubious in significance further than it seemed to indicate some capricious revulsion of thought or feeling such as mobs ashore are liable to, in the present instance possibly implying a sullen revocation on the men's part of their involuntary echoing of Billy's benediction.†   (source)
  • , a tormenting and industrious king, whose policy it was to maintain the elasticity of his power by frequent appointments and revocations.†   (source)
  • Beneath a great tree in the neighborhood fell the German general, Duplat, descended from a French family which fled on the revocation of the Edict of Nantes.†   (source)
  • The cannonade of the Isle of Re presaged to him the dragonnades of the Cevennes; the taking of La Rochelle was the preface to the revocation of the Edict of Nantes.†   (source)
  • "I agree with M. de Villefort," said Monte Cristo, fixing his eyes on Madame de Villefort; "and if I were sufficiently intimate with him to allow of giving my advice, I would persuade him, since I have been told M. d'Epinay is coming back, to settle this affair at once beyond all possibility of revocation.†   (source)
  • Where then had Peter meant the rest of the money to go—and where the land? and what was revoked and what not revoked—and was the revocation for better or for worse?†   (source)
  • Fred bit his lips: it was difficult to help smiling, and Mrs. Vincy felt herself the happiest of women—possible revocation shrinking out of sight in this dazzling vision.†   (source)
  • I was eating bananas in Raleigh, North Carolina, I thought, thinking this not for the first time since I had known Sophie, yet perhaps for the first time in my life aware of the meaning of the Absurd, and its conclusive, unrevocable horror.†   (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unrevocable means not and reverses the meaning of revocable. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
  • Hear, all ye Angels, progeny of light, Thrones, Dominations, Princedoms, Virtues, Powers; Hear my decree, which unrevoked shall stand.†   (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unrevoked means not and reverses the meaning of revoked. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
  • Revoke thy gift, Or, whilst I can vent clamour from my throat, I'll tell thee thou dost evil.†   (source)
  • It is recorded, then, that as soon as Sancho had gone, Don Quixote felt his loneliness, and had it been possible for him to revoke the mandate and take away the government from him he would have done so.†   (source)
  • — 1 AVOC: Which may not be revoked.†   (source)
  • However gross a heresy it may be to maintain that a PARTY to a COMPACT has a right to revoke that COMPACT, the doctrine itself has had respectable advocates.†   (source)
  • So without least impulse or shadow of fate, Or aught by me immutably foreseen, They trespass, authors to themselves in all Both what they judge, and what they choose; for so I form'd them free: and free they must remain, Till they enthrall themselves; I else must change Their nature, and revoke the high decree Unchangeable, eternal, which ordain'd Their freedom: they themselves ordain'd their fall.†   (source)
  • For Heaven's sake, sir, revoke your warrant, and do not send her to a place which must unavoidably prove her destruction."†   (source)
  • …and style of talk, for though he had read the first part of his master's history he never thought that he could be so droll as he was there described; but now, hearing him talk of a "will and codicil that could not be provoked," instead of "will and codicil that could not be revoked," he believed all he had read of him, and set him down as one of the greatest simpletons of modern times; and he said to himself that two such lunatics as master and man the world had never seen.†   (source)
  • Their argument would be, that a grant, once made, could not be revoked; and that the justice of participating in territory acquired or secured by the joint efforts of the Confederacy, remained undiminished.†   (source)
  • He therefore resumed his resolution, and taking leave of Black George, set forward to a town about five miles distant, whither he had desired Mr Allworthy, unless he pleased to revoke his sentence, to send his things after him.†   (source)
  • They stated that my father had chosen to avail himself of the revocation clause in the preincorporation agreement, which stated that Rose's and my shares in the farm were revocable under certain conditions of "mismanagement or abuse."†   (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-able" means able to be. This is the same pattern you see in words like breakable, understandable, and comfortable.
  • We know that we have introduced a change of direction in his course which is already carrying him out of his orbit around he Enemy; but he must be made to imagine that all the choices which have effected this change of course are trivial and revocable.†   (source)
  • My word is not revocable nor ineffectual, once I nod upon it.†   (source)
  • And perhaps it might have been better for some folks that he had not lived to see just reason of revoking his gift.†   (source)
  • …executed at all, had his lordship been able to find the captain after he had seen Lady Bellaston, which was in the afternoon of the day after he had received the affront; but so industrious was the captain in the discharge of his duty, that, having after long enquiry found out the squire's lodgings very late in the evening, he sat up all night at a tavern, that he might not miss the squire in the morning, and by that means missed the revocation which my lord had sent to his lodgings.†   (source)
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