repeal
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Last year, Rehl’s group and others demanded that Soto-Martínez follow through on his promise and repeal the zones within his district.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026
In the immediate aftermath of the repeal of the proposed legislation, this academic postmortem, published in the monthly peer-reviewed journal Health Affairs, speculated that the MCCA’s failure was, indeed, partly due to financial reasons.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 18, 2026
Circuit Court of Appeals ruling, which held the FCC is required by federal law to repeal or modify regulations that are no longer in the public interest.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 2026
There have been hunger strikes demanding farmers' rights, affirmative action, environmental protections, anti-corruption laws and the repeal of controversial security legislation.
From BBC ● Jul. 16, 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
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Last week, the government introduced a new law that repeals and rebrands the scheme.
From BBC ● Dec. 22, 2025
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
This new law, though still compulsory, repeals some of the features of the previous legislation which were most obnoxious to the unions.
From Socialism As It Is A Survey of The World-Wide Revolutionary Movement by William English Walling
Arkansas, Montana and South Carolina voluntarily repealed racial quotas for public bodies after lawsuits based on the Equal Protection Clause.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
This law repealed the Windfall Elimination Provision and Government Pension Offset, which previously reduced Social Security payments for many public-sector retirees like your wife.
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So many states had repealed so many firearm regulations that the District of Columbia’s stringent handgun ban looked like a true outlier.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
Back in 2021, the government repealed agriculture laws after a year-long protest by farmers.
From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2026
He had heard them toll for the dead, rejoice when some unpopular act had been repealed, and shudder with bronze rage at tyranny.
From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes
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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
The ANC drafted a letter to the prime minister advising him of these resolutions and the deadline for repealing the laws.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
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