verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
repeal a law (= officially end a law )
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Many people want the law to be repealed.
repeal an act (= officially end it )
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The Act was repealed by the incoming Labour government.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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act
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Parliamentary sovereignty is still intact in so far as Parliament can still repeal the act committing us to entry.
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Now Congress is primed to repeal the Housing Act of 1937 by enacting a series of sweeping reforms.
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Therefore, we intend to repeal the Act when alternative regulations governing working times are in place.
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What, then, is the effect of the repealing Act upon the case before us?
assault
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I will veto any attempt to repeal the assault weapons ban or the Brady bill.
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He still stands for repealing the assault weapons ban.
ban
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A resolution to repeal the ban , sponsored by Rep.
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I will veto any attempt to repeal the assault weapons ban or the Brady bill.
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He still stands for repealing the assault weapons ban .
bill
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The House bill repeals the current housing law, while the Senate bill repeals only parts of it and rewrites others.
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Lawmakers approved a bill repealing the tax in 1979, but Gov.
law
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No special procedures are required for amending or repealing such laws .
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DeLay spokesman Tony Rudy later explained that DeLay meant that Congress had not repealed whole laws .
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There is a movement afoot to draft legislation that would repeal the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings law .
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Wilson Would repeal the state law requiring counties to operate the program.
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Peel repeals the Corn Law , and what happens?
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The House bill repeals the current housing law , while the Senate bill repeals only parts of it and rewrites others.
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The number of laws on the statute book increases cumulatively since governments repeal relatively few laws.
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So, I asked, would he also move to repeal the anti-pot laws ?
legislation
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This new act of 1773 repealed all the previous legislation on longitude.
tax
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They want to repeal a tax the heirs of millionaires pay.
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The House and Senate voted overwhelmingly last month to repeal the tax break only after it had become public.
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He and buddy Chuck Bauman have been circulating petitions for months asking voters to repeal property taxes .
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So, if voters decide this fall to repeal property taxes , all hell breaks lose on the school-funding front.
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Dole is leading the push in Congress for repealing the gasoline tax .
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Lawmakers approved a bill repealing the tax in 1979, but Gov.
■ VERB
vote
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The House is all but certain to vote to repeal the law.
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The measure now goes to the House of Delegates, which voted to repeal the song in the past.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Congress repealed the ban on women flying Naval combat missions.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He has championed the popular ban on assault-style weapons, defending it with gusto as Republicans try to repeal it.
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If Congress were to repeal the amendment this year, GUPS-type investigations would be easier to initiate.
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In fact, the Act does not repeal all of them.
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No special procedures are required for amending or repealing such laws.
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The draconian Special Powers Act was never repealed despite the election promises.
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The House bill repeals the current housing law, while the Senate bill repeals only parts of it and rewrites others.
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The United States Conference of Mayors issued a statement denouncing the move to repeal .
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This was repealed in 1971 and chargeable assets in a deceased's estate pass to the heirs at probate value.