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However, the insurer told them any claim on their travel insurance for the funds they have lost would be invalid because air traffic issues were outside of the policy.
From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026
A three-judge bench ruled that the pardon granted by then president Maithripala Sirisena in May 2019 was "arbitrary and invalid".
From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 2026
Challenges to Essayli’s position were brought in several criminal cases, with defense lawyers arguing that charges filed under his watch are invalid and should be dismissed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026
But Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier nonetheless sought to intervene in Simpson’s case, arguing in filings that the surrogacy agreement was invalid and Zhou hadn’t proved parentage under Florida law.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
This was owing largely to the eleven years she had spent caring for her invalid mother, which had left her with some proficiency as a nurse and an inability to face strong sunlight without blinking.
From "The Haunting of Hill House" by Shirley Jackson
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Advice about food preparation for "invalids", "convalescents" or "the sickroom" would commonly take up an entire section of cookbooks.
From Salon ● Sep. 1, 2022
Patient outcomes varied depending on whether you asked the officer who lost fighters, the ferryman who shuttled the sick, the doctor who treated invalids or the adjutant who buried bodies.
From Scientific American ● Jul. 23, 2022
Pandemics, mansions, triangles, illnesses, abandonments, deaths, letters and inheritances also kaleidoscopically reappear, as do grandfathers, lovers, invalids, caretakers, utopians and more.
From New York Times ● Jan. 7, 2022
Wealthy invalids flocked to the south Devon town for its sunshine and sea air.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 15, 2021
By this time, Vincent and McNeish were complete invalids and stayed in the cave in a stupor.
From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong
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Last August, the U.S. military’s top appeals court upheld Bergdahl’s conviction, rejecting arguments that public comments by Trump and McCain should have invalided his prosecution, Military.com reported.
From Fox News ● Feb. 18, 2021
In 1941 he enlisted in the US Navy but was invalided out two years later because of injury and, in November 1943, he married his former classmate Diana Dill.
From BBC ● Feb. 5, 2020
He knows that the old songs give “the invalided and senile a musical opportunity to re-court their wives, re-raise their children and re-fight their wars.”
From New York Times ● Sep. 21, 2017
Just as Connie Willis salutes the resilience of Brits in her fiction about England during World War II, Kowal pays similar tribute in this novel through her depiction of grandmotherly Mrs. Richardson and invalided Lt.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 4, 2016
The Allan Liner Hesperian was torpedoed by a German submarine in the English Channel on the 4th September, 1915; on board were a number of invalided Canadian troops.
From Raemaekers' Cartoon History of the War, Volume 2 The Second Twelve Months of War by Louis Raemaekers
There he called on Senator James A. .Reed of Missouri, who is invaliding from a recent illness.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Sent back by me eventually to Korogwe with a letter advising his invaliding out of the country, he opened and read my report upon the way.
From Sketches of the East Africa Campaign by Robert Valentine Dolbey
In the interim, don’t forget the old clothes—the invaliding suit.
From Rattlin the Reefer by Frederick Marryat
The aspirant for invaliding sat himself down again at one end of the table, as the captains did at the other.
From Rattlin the Reefer by Frederick Marryat
It may correct some errors, and prepare you for next invaliding day.
From Rattlin the Reefer by Frederick Marryat
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