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Meaning of "were repealed"

The phrase 'were repealed' indicates that a law, rule, regulation, or policy that was previously in effect has been officially revoked or abolished. It means that the legal or binding force of the mentioned legislation has been removed and it no longer applies. The term 'repealed' is typically used in a legal or governmental context to describe the act of revoking a specific law or provision

How to use "were repealed" in a sentence

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were repealed
Many of the stringent taxation laws were repealed.
Laws were repealed as the need to do so arose.
Restrictions on polygamy and temporary marriages were repealed.
Many apartheid laws were repealed the following year.
Laws prohibiting the sale of alcohol were repealed.
Other relevant laws that were repealed later are discussed hereunder.
Development of imports if measures were repealed.
Obsolete provisions were repealed and legislation informally consolidated or recast.
A number of repressive security acts were repealed as well.
These legal acts were repealed after the enactment of the new law.
The existing legislative decisions were repealed.
Antislavery laws were repealed and legislation legalizing the persecution of aliens was passed.
The provisions on clearly unfounded applications for asylum were repealed.
Many of the legislative acts that were repealed have not been replaced.
All previous provisions not in conformity with the decree were repealed.

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These regulations were repealed in accordance with progress achieved on the animal health side.
The provisions on leave were repealed.
These security laws were repealed by parliament in late November.
The provisions in question were repealed.
Most of its provisions were repealed in the United Kingdom during the twentieth century.
These regulations were repealed.
How many were repealed by their predecessors?
Several laws which threatened internationally guaranteed human rights were repealed.
Earlier decrees concerning that area were repealed but the quality principles continue to apply.
The tariffs on grain which kept the price of bread artificially high were repealed.
The primogeniture laws were repealed at the time of the American Revolution.
The likely scenario of what would happen if measures were repealed has been based on.
Old investment laws were repealed and new ones, which often offered huge incentives, were introduced.
The offences of gross indecency and buggery were repealed from statutory law.
Non-whites were appointed to various public positions, and some economic and social restrictions were repealed.
The Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers Regulations were repealed when these amendments came into force.
Repealed chapters are shown without their former text but with a note that they were repealed.
Some of the Dodd-Frank provisions were repealed earlier this year.
Existing Resolutions and Recommendations were examined and obsolete ones were repealed.
The regulations were repealed in April, but protests continued.
The indigenous protesters vowed to continue until the decrees were repealed and not just suspended.
Yet, net neutrality rules were repealed in the United States earlier this year.
Nine years after her death the witchcraft acts were repealed in Scotland.
The ‘ sedition ' clauses were repealed and replaced with ‘ urging violence.
The United Nations must ensure that such measures were repealed.
Laws enforcing Catholicism and censorship were repealed and the revolutionary tricolor flag re-established.
The following year, the ordinances were repealed.
These provisions were repealed in 1996 but existing plans were allowed to run their course.
Thanks to their extraordinary leadership, the tariffs were repealed.
The above-mentioned Acts together with their regulations were repealed as a measure to abolish racial discrimination.
Furthermore, restrictions on women 's recruitment for military service were repealed.
During the Revolutionary era, all such laws were repealed by the states that had them.
As well, the legislative provisions dealing with bulk permits were repealed.
In 1828 the Test and Corporation Acts were repealed allowing nonconformists to hold public office.
Eventually, the laws regulating the price of gasoline were repealed.

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