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disestablish

[dis-i-stab-lish] / ˌdɪs ɪˈstæb lɪʃ /




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Virginia Heffernan talks to Fordham Law professor Jed Shugerman, about the big picture behind Amy Coney Barrett, ways we can disestablish the Senate, and the concept of originalism when interpreting the U.S.

From Slate Oct. 16, 2020

Interior Secretary David Bernhardt responded by moving to disestablish the tribe’s trust status, “which requires Interior to rescind its earlier decision,” said department spokesman Conner Swanson in a statement.

From Washington Times Apr. 8, 2020

Influenced by deistic distaste for sectarian disputes, pragmatic politicians would eventually decide that the best solution was to disestablish the churches and cut off public funding in the name of religious freedom.

From Textbooks Jan. 18, 2018

Government programs, once established, do not tend to disestablish themselves, but the growth and modernization of the federal government was probably inevitable.

From The New Yorker Dec. 21, 2015

Vanderdecken is taboo'd, the Sea Sarpint is pooh-pooh'd, but 'tis plain as any pikestaff they can't disestablish Me!

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, December 10, 1892 by Burnand, F. C. (Francis Cowley), Sir

We live in a proudly rebellious country that fought a divisive Revolutionary War to get rid of kings and lords, establishing a nation that disestablishes religion.

From Washington Post Dec. 5, 2012

In Ireland it disestablishes and disendows a hierarchy.

From The Intellectual Life by Hamerton, Philip Gilbert

The structure of state government and public infrastructure were built on the understanding that Congress had disestablished the former reservations.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 10, 2026

The court‘s ruling was based on the U.S. Supreme Court‘s landmark 2020 decision that found that much of eastern Oklahoma, including Tulsa, remains an Indian reservation because it was never formally disestablished by Congress.

From Washington Times Jun. 29, 2023

Since then, lower courts have found the reservations of five other Native American tribes were also never disestablished, including the Chickasaw, Cherokee, Choctaw, Seminole and Quapaw.

From Seattle Times Dec. 30, 2021

It was launched in 1985 and disestablished in 2002 as the Pentagon reorganized in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

From Washington Post Aug. 29, 2019

With scientific determinism firmly established in the realm of Nature and arbitrary determinism thoroughly disestablished in the realm of ends, the two-fold fatality that crushed man with its oppressive power, automatically disappeared.

From The Philosophy of Spinoza by Ratner, Joseph

“I have not heard anyone seriously contemplating the idea of disestablishing it,” Harrison said.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 15, 2020

But quickly that changed and people saw that that was not consistent with the fundamental freedom of the revolutionary spirit and you had the process of disestablishing all of these state churches over time.

From Slate Apr. 19, 2017

In “Phineas Redux,” Mr. Daubeny, the Conservative Disraeli figure, decides to keep power by proposing the radical idea of disestablishing the Church of England.

From The New Yorker Apr. 27, 2015

Thus the Sunday Closing Act was celebrated in Wales as an important step on the road to disestablishing the Anglican church and getting the nonconformist chapels recognised on the same footing.

From BBC Aug. 4, 2011

Or do you think that abolishing the House of Lords, or disestablishing the Church, will enable the workers who are displaced to obtain employment?

From The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Tressell, Robert




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