6 sentences with 'repealed'
Example sentences and phrases with the word repealed and other words derived from it.
• « Eventually the Greeks banished Dracon, repealed "his" laws, cancelled all debts, emancipated debt slaves and created a new, less severe civil code. »
• « A decade later, the hated Corn Laws were finally repealed after a protracted political struggle (1846). »
• « Butler's campaign went through years of failure and scorn before finally succeeding: the Contagious Diseases Act was repealed and the age of consent for girls was raised from twelve to sixteen. »
• « Even when overtly racist laws were repealed elsewhere - notably in the United States as a result of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s - apartheid remained resolutely intact. »
• « As it turned out, the Boston Massacre occurred after Parliament partially repealed the Townshend Acts. »
• « In the Declaration and Resolutions, adopted on 14 October, the colonists demanded the repeal of all repressive laws passed since 1773 and agreed to a covenant of non-importation, non-exportation and non-consumption against all British goods until the laws were repealed. »