987 examples of repeal in sentences

" <Abolish, repeal, rescind, revoke, abrogate, annul, nullify, cancel, reverse>.

His son had the amazing assurance to add that if they starved with complete resignation the repeal of the union was near at hand.

" At that meetingthe first to be held after the repeal of Bismarck's anti-socialist lawthe president claimed that they had secured more votes at the Reichstag election than any other party; they were the strongest political party in Germany.

in execution, and the same had not been found effectual to answer the purposes intended," the commons being desirous to raise the necessary supplies in the easiest manner, do grant the rates on spirituous liquors, hereafter mentioned, and repeal the present rates.

And here let us remark, that, when Lord Seaforth, governor of Barbadoes, proposed, so lately as in 1802, the repeal of this bloody law, the Legislature of that island rejected the proposition with indignation.

Nay, the very proposal to repeal it so stirred up at the time the bad passions of many, that several brutal murders of slaves were committed in consequence; and it was not till two or three years afterwards that the governor had influence enough to get the law repealed.

On the contrary, notwithstanding the repeal of the restrictive corn laws in England, the foreign demand for the products of the American farmer has steadily declined, since the short crops and consequent famine in a portion of Europe have been happily replaced by full crops and comparative abundance of food.

The Government was defeated by a large majority on the very day the Repeal of the Corn Laws passed the House of Lords, and the Queen sent for Lord John, who became Prime Minister in July, 1846.

Nonconformist deputation presented address to John on the fiftieth anniversary of Repeal of the Corporation and Test Acts.

You have never asked their repeal.

The evil is done, the law is passed, and we begin the up-hill agitation for repeal of that of which we ought to have prevented the enacting.

Of the Diagnostic he speedily became the life and soul, and discussed with ardour such questions as the Repeal of the Corn Laws, Vote by Ballot, and the Exclusion of Bishops from the House of Lords.

But he was beaten in his own party, on account of the action which he had taken in the repeal of the Missouri Compromise.

What has Daniel O'Connell done for Irish repeal?

If God had straitly commanded them to exterminate all the Canaanites, their pledge to save them alive, was neither a repeal of the statute, nor absolution for the breach of it.

If God had straitly commanded them to exterminate all the Canaanites, their pledge to save them alive, was neither a repeal of the statute, nor absolution for the breach of it.

Cannot legislatures repeal their own laws?

That the ordinance abolished the slavery then existing, is also shown by the fact, that persons holding slaves in the territory petitioned for the repeal of the article abolishing slavery, assigning that as a reason.

"The petition of the citizens of Randolph and St. Clair counties in the Illinois country, stating that they were in possession of slaves, and praying the repeal of that act (the 6th article of the ordinance of '87) and the passage of a law legalizing slavery there."

On the repeal of all laws requiring attendance on religious worship.

If it be the opinion that it is advantageous for us to close with France in her interpretation of a reciprocal and perpetual exemption from tonnage, a repeal of so much of the tonnage law will be the answer.

But here I can not forbear to recommend a repeal of the tax on the transportation of public prints.

Both of these officers, from a just regard to their safety, fled to the seat of Government, it being avowed that the motives to such outrages were to compel the resignation of the inspector, to withstand by force of arms the authority of the United States, and thereby to extort a repeal of the laws of excise and an alteration in the conduct of Government.

Repeal of the Five Years Act, reconstruction of the army on an enlarged basis, accelerated progress in our naval armaments, preparation of sufficient financial meansthese are requirements which the situation calls for.

Led by Josephine Butler, the women of England were deeply stirred on the question of its repeal and have since secured it.

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