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The UN Human Rights Council on Monday unanimously urged the Taliban to repeal all practices restricting the fundamental freedoms of women and girls, saying Afghanistan's institutionalised discrimination should shock humanity.

From Barron's ● Oct. 5, 2026

Proposition 4 would repeal a 1988 ban on the public funding of campaigns and allow all local and state governments to offer public financing programs with certain conditions.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

It’s to repeal the regulations that prevent more market competition.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026

Givan announced his department was to repeal the SDC criterion and was launching a consultation, external to gather views on whether new legislation was also needed.

From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026

As the news of the repeal was broadcast over the radio, stores like New York’s Gimbels and Bloomingdale’s immediately opened their liquor departments.

From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler

"So if there were laws in our statute book in 1994, the constitution explicitly says they remain in force until parliament repeals them, abolishes them or changes them," he adds.

From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026

A major wave of repeals took place in 1985, when Minnesota, South Carolina, and Texas eliminated their blue laws.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 20, 2025

And these repeals would bar the targeted agency from ever taking a “substantially” similar action again.

From Slate ● May 14, 2025

The new policy repeals the previous code, which banned camping only at parks and the beach.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 27, 2025

It repeals, in express terms, an important part of the constitution itself, and of laws passed to give it effect, which have never been alleged to be unconstitutional.

From The Crisis of Eighteen Hundred and Sixty-One In The Government of The United States. Its Cause, and How it Should be Met by A. D. Steight

Because the GPO has been repealed, her teacher’s pension will no longer reduce or eliminate her spousal benefit.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 10, 2026

So many states had repealed so many firearm regulations that the District of Columbia’s stringent handgun ban looked like a true outlier.

From Slate ● Aug. 3, 2026

The charter amendment ballot measure approved Tuesday would avoid that result and restore the inadvertently repealed funding.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026

Back in 2021, the government repealed agriculture laws after a year-long protest by farmers.

From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2026

Although Prohibition ultimately failed and was repealed, Sunday refused to give up the fight against alcohol, calling for the reintroduction of the Prohibition amendment.

From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler

Forest Service, said this week that repealing the rule would give local agencies more authority over land management issues and help reduce barriers to wildfire risk reduction.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026

In 2020, I calculated that repealing the firewall would lead to $2.2 trillion in higher subsidy spending over a decade for the estimated 24 million people who would switch from employer coverage to the exchanges.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026

But it soon became clear that repealing the previous legislation was one thing; how to replace it quite another.

From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026

However, repealing the earnings test would likely lead to more people claiming Social Security early, hastening the system’s impending insolvency.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 15, 2026

Professor Dash asked me whether I took any encouragement from the government’s stated intention of repealing die mixed-marriage laws and certain other apartheid statutes.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela