What's the difference between repeal and repudiate?

Repeal


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To recall; to summon again, as persons.
  • (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July 1987, 10 states have prohibitory laws, five states have grandmother clauses authorizing practicing midwives under repealed statutes, five states have enabling laws which are not used, and 10 states explicitly permit lay midwives to practice.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should not be disguised as foreign aid funding,” she said, accusing the former government of introducing the now-repealed carbon tax to pay for contributions to the fund.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 • (12) Approved: Nebraska voters passed an unusual ballot measure to reinstate the death penalty after state lawmakers repealed it in 2015.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.

Repudiate


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To cast off; to disavow; to have nothing to do with; to renounce; to reject.
  • (v. t.) To divorce, put away, or discard, as a wife, or a woman one has promised to marry.
  • (v. t.) To refuse to acknowledge or to pay; to disclaim; as, the State has repudiated its debts.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Thus the data were unable to repudiate earlier evidence regarding the significance of the private fee-for-service framework in predicting affective behavior.
  • (2) The first official repudiation of Stalinism came in Nikita Khrushchev's now celebrated speech to a closed session of the 1956 Communist party congress.
  • (3) On Monday, Trump, who leads opinion polls in the race to be the Republican nominee for president in an election in November next year, called for a ban on Muslims entering the United States , in comments widely repudiated by other US politicians.
  • (4) Both of which the Australian government is slowly but surely repudiating.
  • (5) And for a country founded on the repudiation of history, they were all, of course, obsessed with the weight of the past.
  • (6) The predictive values of gain or output may be inferred from current research and the Powell & Tucker paper confirms the previous work rather than repudiates it.
  • (7) Facebook Twitter Pinterest On Thursday morning, Hilary Benn pays tribute to the RAF as UK airstrikes on Syria begin Unlike his father, Hilary did not repudiate the experience, though he is humble enough to acknowledge errors.
  • (8) Senators should insist that Comey explain his role during the Bush era and repudiate policies he endorsed on torture, indefinite detention, and illegal surveillance.
  • (9) Susan Collins announced she would not vote for Donald Trump on Monday, joining the few other Republican senators to repudiate the party’s nominee for president.
  • (10) Following weeks of angry internal debate about how to handle the issue, Mark Thompson, the BBC director general, on Friday issued a strongly worded complaint about "disturbing new tactics" and called on the Iranian government "to repudiate the actions of its officials".
  • (11) The Warner suit states: "Because of the repudiation, Warner has not entered into license agreements for online games and casino slot machines in connection with The Hobbit – a form of customary exploitation it previously had utilised in connection with the Lord of the Rings trilogy – which has harmed Warner both in the form of lost license revenue and also in decreased exposure for the Hobbit films."
  • (12) For these reasons we repudiate the view that organ sharing is now superfluous.
  • (13) For the primiparous, then infertile women because of hypopituitarism, the repudiation becomes often the only social way of life.
  • (14) On Tuesday he said he would issue an apology to the Chinese embassy and repudiate Palmer’s comments.
  • (15) This platform enabled us to win the confidence of the Greek people,” Varoufakis said, insisting that the logic of austerity had been repudiated by voters when the far-left Syriza party stormed to victory in Sunday’s election.
  • (16) 'An epochal change': what a Trump presidency means for the Asia Pacific region Read more Most explosive of all, the new US president has planted a trade war at the heart of his policies: a 45% tariff on imports from China and a repudiation of the Trans Pacific Partnership which was supposed to have been proof positive of America’s pivot to Asia.
  • (17) Medical personnel must carry out a whole complex of measures aimed at community involvement into dispensarization activities, promotion of population's readiness to follow doctor's indications and prescribed regimen and diet, to stick to a more active mode of life and to repudiate bad habits.
  • (18) The chances of the Greek public electing a government that repudiates the terms of the bailout is deemed to be high.
  • (19) In a calculated repudiation of the economic philosophy of Ed Miliband, who resigned in the wake of Labour’s devastating defeat at the polls last month, Leslie argues that during the election campaign the party failed to grasp the power of consumers.
  • (20) But some commentators regard Corbyn’s ascent and the defeat of “Blairite” candidates as a repudiation of his legacy and return to old Labour values.