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A three-judge bench ruled that the pardon granted by then president Maithripala Sirisena in May 2019 was "arbitrary and invalid".
From Barron's β Sep. 10, 2026
The deputy federal public defenders said a defense analysis identified invalid service as acting or de facto U.S. attorneys in at least 16 districts across the country.
From Los Angeles Times β Sep. 5, 2026
Moynihan has more than once used “gainsay,” or to declare something as untrue or invalid.
From The Wall Street Journal β Aug. 17, 2026
In his opinion, “concurring in the judgment and dissenting in part,” Kavanaugh first agreed with the majority that the executive order’s limitations on birthright citizenship are invalid.
From Slate β Jul. 15, 2026
Of course, there are assumptions underlying these phrases which are invalid or meaningless without clarification.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
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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 β 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 β Jul. 23, 2022
Wealthy invalids flocked to the south Devon town for its sunshine and sea air.
From The Guardian β Feb. 15, 2021
Tuesday's voting was reserved for the aged, invalids, people in hospitals and the military.
From Fox News β Apr. 26, 2019
Since sea bathing was a sort of cure-all for delicate children and invalids, Charles and Emma decided to give that a try.
From "Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith" by Deborah Heiligman
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In the midst of it, the wonder boy Joseph Suaalii smashed Tuipulotu in the tackle, but invalided himself out of the game as a consequence.
From BBC β Nov. 24, 2024
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 β Feb. 18, 2021
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 β 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 β Sep. 4, 2016
He could have stayed on in hospital and would very likely have been invalided back to England eventually.
From Caught by the Turks by Francis Yeats-Brown
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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This was the first time Aubrey had been considered in condition for such festivities, and the gratification of being superior to somebody might account for his glee in invaliding his friend.
From The Trial by Charlotte Mary Yonge
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
That evening Dr Thompson made the captain’s punch, having carefully locked up in his largest tea-chest his 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
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