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repeal English

Meaning repeal meaning

What does repeal mean?
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repeal Verb

— To repeal is to cancel something (usually a law).

repeal

— verb (= revoke, lift, vacate) cancel officially He revoked the ban on smoking lift an embargo vacate a death sentence — noun (= abrogation) the act of abrogating; an official or legal cancellation

Synonyms repeal synonyms

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revoke cancel annul rescind abrogate revocation abolish nullify call off annulment void abrogation quash erase countermand abolition withdrawal reverse reversal overturn invalidate withdraw retract overrule vacate scrap rescission recall quashing lift cancellation abolishment abate abandon voidance refutation recant override nullification negate drop do away with disposal discarding withdrawment wipe out wind up waive unsay undo

Conjugation repeal conjugation

How do you conjugate repeal?

repeal · verb

Examples repeal examples

How do I use repeal in a sentence?

Simple sentences

The Republicans want to repeal Obamacare.

Movie subtitles

Finally comes the national referendum on repeal.
I recommend you promptly repeal your decree.
Repeal the 14th and 20th amendment, make slaves out of women.
Third: Repeal the fines imposed on the workers at large, etc.
They're other authorities who do them and repeal them.
Quite simple, get yourselfadopted as a candidate, win a general election,serve on the back benches, become a Ministerand repeal the act.
It humiliates all of us and we demand it's repeal.
I've more or less decided to ask the House to repeal the act that you have taken such exception to.
That is repeal the Neutrality Act.
We wish first for you to call a Parliament to repeal the laws relating to the branding of unfortunates forced into beggary.
They say they're going to repeal prohibition.
Repeal the tax reforms!
Tomorrow I'm gonna go to my uncle and I'm gonna ask him to repeal the elfin restrictions.
I'm not afraid to fight whisky and repeal with police help or without it.
Repeal of Prohibition.
Other authorities make them and repeal them.
The Institute of Reclamation wanted a character without a history to represent them at the repeal of the European Landscape Bill.
With a religious fervor that has made her America's most controversial woman overnight, her group is crusading to repeal a new Dade County law, which protects homosexuals in jobs and housing.
The issue was whether or not to repeal a four-month-old ordinance, which prohibits job and housing discrimination against homosexuals.
The vote is going now 18,930 for repeal.
Homosexuality is a question facing the voters of Eugene, Oregon tomorrow. A referendum to repeal gay rights protection.
Only two hours after the polls closed, the church organization that started the repeal action was celebrating victory.
Barack Obama swore that he would vote to repeal the Patriot Act, but then he voted for it's reauthorization.
And how can you repeal him after you made him go mad?
Repeal', 6,500 and rising.
A referendum to repeal gay rights protection.
Now, representative pelosi, the republican house is gaining momentum with their health care repeal effort.
We plan to mount a campaign against the repeal of president Obama's health care plan.
So under the Democrats we also saw the repeal of Glass-Steagall.
Do you think that the repeal of Glass-Steagall was a tragic mistake?

News and current affairs

But even as evidence for such abuses becomes apparent, new venues for abuse are repeatedly opened up - take the US repeal of the Glass Steagall Act, which separated commercial from investment banking.
If Europe does not change its ways - if it does not reform the eurozone and repeal austerity - a popular backlash will become inevitable.
Second, repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act, which separated commercial and investment banking, was a mistake.
Syriza has also promised to repeal labor-market liberalization and suspend privatization.
The rise of these types of prosecutions has in turn motivated countries, including Argentina and Chile, to repeal their amnesty laws so that suspected war criminals can be prosecuted at home.
On the other hand, few people have a concentrated interest leading them to favour repeal.
Once, I urged a congressmen to repeal that statute.
Aid to old economy firms that spent more on avoiding taxes than in restructuring took the form of a repeal of the alternative minimum tax, a tax provision designed to limit the extent to which firms could make use of loopholes in the tax code.
In the US, this right-wing resurgence, whose adherents evidently seek to repeal the basic laws of math and economics, is threatening to force a default on the national debt.
Despite a change of government in the Netherlands since voluntary euthanasia was legalized, no effort has been made to repeal the measure.
But of course, even the US Treasury, as powerful as it may be, cannot repeal the laws of economics.
Fortunately, this article of Turkey's penal code is now due for review and possible repeal.
Using legislative language apparently drafted by Citi's own lobbyists, the firm successfully pressed for the repeal of some of the 2010 Dodd-Frank financial reforms.
These megabanks are making a determined attempt to repeal as much of Dodd-Frank as possible, and the House Republicans seem keen to help them.
The only law that Congress cannot repeal is the law of unintended consequences.
One of the top priorities had been the Republican plan to complete the repeal of the estate tax on the richest Americans.
The police officer who murdered Taseer apparently acted because the governor recently launched a campaign to repeal the law.
Treaties are more binding than national legislation, because they are more difficult to revoke, amend, or repeal.
But, during the last few decades of the century, European tariff rates fell substantially, largely in response to the United Kingdom's unilateral repeal of the Corn Laws, which had imposed substantial tariffs on imported grain.
The United Kingdom looks older and more stable, but Scotland today is controlled by a political party that wants to repeal the 1707 Act of Union, with the future to be determined by a Scottish referendum in 2014.
Most important among such amendments is the repeal of Provisional Article 15, which has provided immunity from prosecution to all actors of the military regime established by the 1980 coup.
With the gradual dismantling of Glass-Steagall, and its final repeal in 1999, bankers triumphed over both the busters and the regulators, while maintaining deposit insurance for the commercial banks.
That raises another important question: Does US President Barack Obama really have a domestic mandate for negotiating a comprehensive repeal of the sanctions?

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