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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
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 β Sep. 5, 2026
Mateta also faces an uncertain future after BBC Sport's revelation on Saturday that the France striker has been arguing the final year on his Palace contract should be ruled invalid.
From BBC β Aug. 26, 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 β Jul. 31, 2026
She wouldn’t have recognized him as Jamie—tonight he was the picture of rosy health, nothing like the gray-faced, grieving invalid she’d last seen slumping bandaged and unresponsive in a Bath chair.
From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein
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If you are one of those who don't need Vegemite medicinally, the thousands of invalids and babies are asking you to deny yourself of it for the time being.
From Salon β Jul. 10, 2023
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
If you break your head or back-bone you will be very unfortunate, policemen can direct the traffic so that there won't be too many invalids to go to hospital.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
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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 β 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 β 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 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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But he was of those who do not take kindly to invaliding.
From Sketches of the East Africa Campaign by Robert Valentine Dolbey
In hospital they are always professing to a recovery from fever that their pallid faces and enlarged spleens belie, and they take not kindly to any suggestion of invaliding.
From Sketches of the East Africa Campaign by Robert Valentine Dolbey
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
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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