(v. t.) To call back; to summon to return; as, to recall troops; to recall an ambassador.
(v. t.) To revoke; to annul by a subsequent act; to take back; to withdraw; as, to recall words, or a decree.
(v. t.) To call back to mind; to revive in memory; to recollect; to remember; as, to recall bygone days.
(n.) A calling back; a revocation.
(n.) A call on the trumpet, bugle, or drum, by which soldiers are recalled from duty, labor, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) Dietary intakes, measured by three 24-hour recalls, revealed that protein, iron and Vitamin C generally met or exceeded the Nutrition Recommendations for age.
(2) One was a long duration of symptoms as recalled at diagnosis.
(3) But I recall my own first encounter with that ideology, back in the 1990s.
(4) Although those receiving active pretraining plus mnemonics did not differ from one another at Time 3, they recalled more than those with no active pretraining.
(5) The dietary fibre intake of 25 patients with the irritable bowel syndrome was assessed by dietary recall over one week for the period before onset of symptoms, at diagnosis and after six months treatment with bran and a fibre-rich diet, and compared with controls matched for age and sex.
(6) "I wanted it to have a romantic feel," says Wilson, "recalling Donald Campbell and his Bluebird machines and that spirit of awe-inspiring adventure."
(7) The authors recall the advantages of low transcartilage incision in rhinoplasty and, by means of several technical details, illustrate the value of this approach in submucosal dissection.
(8) A final experiment confirmed a prediction from the above theory that when recalling the original sequence, omissions (recalling no word) will decrease and transpositions (giving the wrong word) will increase as noise level increases.
(9) In general, variables that affected recall and recognition of studied words had parallel effects on their associates.
(10) Standing as he explains the book's take-home point, Miliband recalls the author Michael Lewis's research showing that a quarter-back is the most highly paid player, but because they throw with their right arm they can often be floored by an attacker from their blindside.
(11) This study sought to determine how well individuals are able to recall accurately their food habits of 24 years ago and identify those factors that are predictive of recall ability.
(12) To estimate inaccuracy in a diarrhoea recall survey mothers of pre-school children in Teknaf, Bangladesh were interviewed every week from July 1980 through June 1983.
(13) This resulted in a false-positive recall incidence greater than 92% owing to various additional factors which also influence T4 levels: thyroxine-binding-globulin deficiency, prematurity, and maternal drug ingestion.
(14) Throughout the decade that it took GM to recall the Cobalt, there was a lack of accountability, a lack of urgency, and a failure of company personnel charged with ensuring the safety of the company's vehicles to understand how GM's own cars were designed.
(15) In this paper we describe a novel and reproducible technique for measuring cluster formation in suspension between purified human blood monocytes and purified autologous T lymphocytes, and its application to determining the effects of recall antigens and mitogen.
(16) Awareness of making dispositional inferences was only weakly correlated with disposition-cued recall.
(17) Our later measures – parliament's power to declare peace and war, MPs to be subject to a right to recall, an end to the royal prerogative, an elected Lords – were about a 21st-century democracy, with citizenship to be founded on a new bill of rights and responsibilities and, in time, a written constitution.
(18) We had a brief conversation and I said to him he was acting from high honour here, and I said how sorry I was this wasn’t happening in three or four years time..because Barry is a man of honour..and I think he is a very capable premier and I think he has been missed.” Asked whether he had ever met Nick di Girolamo , the prime minister said both he and Mr di Girolamo attended a lot of functions, and “I don’t for a moment say I have never met him but I don’t recall it.” But former federal Liberal MP Ross Cameron sounded much more sceptical about O’Farrell’s memory lapse when speaking to Sky News.
(19) Eighty-six adults serially recalled lists of visually presented consonant letters similar in auditory or visual features or dissimilar in both feature sets.
(20) Patterns of change and variability in text recall performance were assessed in seven elderly women by testing them weekly for up to 2 years.
Revoke
Definition:
(v. t.) To call or bring back; to recall.
(v. t.) Hence, to annul, by recalling or taking back; to repeal; to rescind; to cancel; to reverse, as anything granted by a special act; as, , to revoke a will, a license, a grant, a permission, a law, or the like.
(v. t.) To hold back; to repress; to restrain.
(v. t.) To draw back; to withdraw.
(v. t.) To call back to mind; to recollect.
(v. i.) To fail to follow suit when holding a card of the suit led, in violation of the rule of the game; to renege.
(n.) The act of revoking.
Example Sentences:
(1) But he argued that Obama entered the agreement without approval from Congress, allowing the president to revoke it.
(2) (Incidentally, Australia had just revoked Blanc’s visa).
(3) The inspections have already led to complaints and demands that the rules be revoked.
(4) But private institutions owe their licence to operate to the state, by being given degree-awarding powers or university titles (which can be revoked).
(5) Applications by psychiatrists were infrequently withdrawn or revoked.
(6) 'No doesn't really mean no': North Carolina law means women can't revoke consent for sex Read more The 13-year-old girl, named Savannah, spoke on 7 May in Eagle Mountain, Utah, during a once-a-month portion of Sunday services in which members are encouraged to share feelings and beliefs.
(7) Universities are losing their sense of public responsibility and social purpose | Peter Scott Read more Ministers will now have the power to revoke the royal charters of many older universities previously regarded as near-inalienable.
(8) The current TPA bill comes with a big loophole: if Congress feels the TPP doesn’t meet its expectations, it can revoke the TPA and try to change the terms of the trade agreement.
(9) At the beginning of the month the ministry of interior published a list of 72 persons whose citizenship was to be revoked.
(10) On Wednesday angry MPs approved a resolution calling on the government to charge the documentary-makers with genocide denial and revoke the BBC’s licence to broadcast in the country.
(11) Ninety-one PSRB clients received treatment and of this group 51% had their conditional release revoked by the PSRB.
(12) Government misquoting my report to defend revoking citizenship, says Bret Walker Read more Some ministers believe the detail of the citizenship legislation should be presented to cabinet for final decision, given that the last discussion occurred around a vague proposal without a cabinet submission or any kind of documentation or any legal advice.
(13) Last week, immigration minister Jason Kenney announced that 3,100 people would have their Canadian citizenship revoked for hiring immigration consultants to falsify their documents.
(14) The sanctions order assets frozen, visas revoked and a ban on US companies' business with the targets.
(15) USA has the right to issue and revoke visa – I fully understand that.
(16) Whistleblowers with dual citizenship who speak out on Australia’s national security – including those involved in allegations that Timor-Leste’s cabinet room was bugged – could face having their citizenship revoked under proposed laws.
(17) So of course the Republicans want to deny, if not outright revoke, birthright citizenship to people like me.
(18) Any licence to the public to enter or cross this land is revoked forthwith.
(19) Detained by US immigration: 'In that moment I loathed America' | Mem Fox Read more After receiving notice that his Nexus card – part of a program designed to expedite border crossings for low-risk, pre-approved travellers – had been revoked, Ahmad decided to use his lunch break on Friday to pay a visit to the Nexus office in Michigan.
(20) If the regulator had decided that either James Murdoch – who stood down as chairman of News International in March 2012 and as chairman of BSkyB in April, but remains on the board of the broadcaster as a non-executive director – or the company itself were not fit and proper owners, the regulator could have revoked its licences.