(v. t.) To recall, as a deed, will, law, or statute; to revoke; to rescind or abrogate by authority, as by act of the legislature; as, to repeal a law.
(v. t.) To suppress; to repel.
(n.) Recall, as from exile.
(n.) Revocation; abrogation; as, the repeal of a statute; the repeal of a law or a usage.
Example Sentences:
(1) As of July 1987, 10 states have prohibitory laws, five states have grandmother clauses authorizing practicing midwives under repealed statutes, five states have enabling laws which are not used, and 10 states explicitly permit lay midwives to practice.
(2) However, when public disquiet at the crime and social damage caused by alcohol prohibition led to its repeal, Anslinger saw his position as being in danger.
(3) And make no mistake, this is a repeal and a replace of Obamacare.
(4) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Lamar Alexander voted yes but has previously expressed concerns about the rush to repeal without a replacement plan.
(5) If you’re a congressional Republican, you consider Obamacare a “failure”, and “repeal and replace” is your mantra.
(6) In May, Maryland became the sixth state in six years to repeal the death penalty; it is the 18th state in total.
(7) Climate change funding should not be disguised as foreign aid funding,” she said, accusing the former government of introducing the now-repealed carbon tax to pay for contributions to the fund.
(8) He has also demanded the carbon tax repeal be made retrospective.
(9) This possibility makes the repeal of the section particularly urgent and the supreme court's suggestion that it needs to be debated in parliament is nothing more than, well, stonewalling.
(10) The opposition said the government’s approach towards the budget debate in this critical parliamentary sitting week was to stack separate proposals into single bills to avoid scrutiny, particularly in the welfare omnibus bills, and to crowd out the agenda with renewed parliamentary debates on carbon- and mining-tax repeals.
(11) Gravett and others who lived through DADT told the Guardian that so much had changed since the repeal, though the past feels unbelievable at times.
(12) Approved: Nebraska voters passed an unusual ballot measure to reinstate the death penalty after state lawmakers repealed it in 2015.
(13) They opposed the first iteration of the House healthcare bill as not going far enough to repeal Obamacare.
(14) But in the short-term it’s better to have something reducing emissions than having nothing.” Palmer, whose senators also voted to repeal the former government’s emissions trading scheme – which is how Australia was left without a climate policy – said he believed Australia would eventually have to move to such a scheme.
(15) The policy wouldn’t officially be repealed until 20 September 2011.
(16) The demonstrators want a national vote on whether or not to repeal the 8th amendment to Ireland’s constitution, which effectively makes the fetus even at early gestation an Irish citizen.
(17) However, in July the coalition government said it had no plans to repeal the act.
(18) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Many progressives consider the self-described farm girl their worst nightmare: a Tea Party radical who wants to privatise social security, curb abortion rights, repeal Obamacare and abolish the Environmental Protection Agency.
(19) Ironically, the law being used to pursue the groups is one from the era of Mubarak, which the government had said it intended to repeal.
(20) The House speaker, Paul Ryan, said that after Congress’s forthcoming weeklong recess, “we intend to introduce legislation to repeal and replace Obamacare”, without giving further details.
Repeat
Definition:
(v. t.) To go over again; to attempt, do, make, or utter again; to iterate; to recite; as, to repeat an effort, an order, or a poem.
(v. t.) To make trial of again; to undergo or encounter again.
(v. t.) To repay or refund (an excess received).
(n.) The act of repeating; repetition.
(n.) That which is repeated; as, the repeat of a pattern; that is, the repetition of the engraved figure on a roller by which an impression is produced (as in calico printing, etc.).
(n.) A mark, or series of dots, placed before and after, or often only at the end of, a passage to be repeated in performance.
Example Sentences:
(1) Clinical surveillance, repeated laboratory tests, conventional radiology, and especially ultrasonography and CT scan all contributed to the preoperative diagnosis.
(2) Nine of 14 patients studied for documented clinical relapse had positive repeat studies.
(3) Comparison of wild type and the mutant parD promoter sequences indicated that three short repeats are likely involved in the negative regulation of this promoter.
(4) Pituitary weight, mitotic index and chromosomes were studied in male rats following a single or repeated dose of estradiol-benzoate for a total period of 210 days.
(5) A chronic cannulation procedure is described which allows for sampling vomeronasal organ (VNO) contents repeatedly in freely moving conscious subjects.
(6) The region containing the injection stop signal (iss) has been cloned and sequenced and found to contain numerous large repeats and inverted repeats which may be part of the iss.
(7) In view of reports of the reduction of telomeric repeats in human malignant tumors, we measured the lengths of telomeric repeats in 55 primary neuroblastomas.
(8) A domain containing a CA repeat, similar to ones found in other late, cAMP-induced Dictyostelium genes, is required for cAMP-induced and developmental expression.
(9) But it will be a subtle difference, because it's already abundantly clear there's no danger of the war being suddenly forgotten, or made to seem irrelevant to our sense of what Europe and the world has to avoid repeating.
(10) An axillo-axillary bypass procedure was performed in a high-risk patient with innominate arterial stenosis who had repeated episodes of transient cerebral ischemia due to decreased blood flow through the right carotid artery and reversal of blood flow through the right vertebral artery.
(11) Intensity thresholds for eliciting eating and drinking were different, and both thresholds decreased with repeated testing.
(12) Our experience indicates that lateral rhinotomy is a safe, repeatable and cosmetically sound procedure that provides and excellent surgical approach to the nasal cavity and sinuses.
(13) In crosses between inverted repeats, a single intrachromatid reciprocal exchange leads to inversion of the sequence between the crossover sites and recovery of both genes involved in the event.
(14) Each species has approximately 500 core histones cluster repeats per haploid genome.
(15) We identified four distinct clinical patterns in the 244 patients with true positive MAI infections: (a) pulmonary nodules ("tuberculomas") indistinguishable from pulmonary neoplasms (78 patients); (b) chronic bronchitis or bronchiectasis with sputum repeatedly positive for MAI or granulomas on biopsy (58 patients, virtually all older white women); (c) cavitary lung disease and scattered pulmonary nodules mimicking M. tuberculosis infection (12 patients); (d) diffuse pulmonary infiltrations in immunocompromised hosts, primarily patients with AIDS (96 patients).
(16) Examinations, begun at day 150 of gestation in 33 monkeys and between days 32 and 58 in four other animals, were repeated at intervals of one to seven days.
(17) During that time they have repeatedly demonstrated the likely existence of signalling molecules or morphogens that control the pattern of development in the embryo.
(18) Male guinea pigs received either a single dose of As2O3 10 mg.kg-1 s.c. or repeated doses of 2.5 mg.kg-1 bis in die (b.i.d.)
(19) Plasmids containing the inverted repeat alone bound ER, though less efficiently than did plasmids containing the entire sequence.
(20) These studies indicate that at each site of induction during feather morphogenesis, a general pattern is repeated in which an epithelial structure linked by L-CAM is confronted with periodically propagating condensations of cells linked by N-CAM.