What's the difference between repeal and revoke?

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July 1987, 10 states have prohibitory laws, five states have grandmother clauses authorizing practicing midwives under repealed statutes, five states have enabling laws which are not used, and 10 states explicitly permit lay midwives to practice.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should not be disguised as foreign aid funding,” she said, accusing the former government of introducing the now-repealed carbon tax to pay for contributions to the fund.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• (12) Approved: Nebraska voters passed an unusual ballot measure to reinstate the death penalty after state lawmakers repealed it in 2015.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

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.