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Example sentences for: lifted

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Frederik W. de Klerk, the head of the National Party and president of South Africa, released ANC president Mandela, who had been jailed for 27 years, and lifted a longtime ban on the ANC that had forced the group into exile in Zambia.
When my sister's husband heard this tale, he speculated that the old beau's toilet seat played the same tune when he lifted it.
And TNR 's feature itself was lifted from Washington, D.C.'s, City Paper , which was edited at the time of the theft by Jack Shafer, now deputy editor of SLATE.
Kofi Annan's successful diplomacy in Baghdad failed to convince many newspapers abroad that the threat of war had been lifted, and pressure on the United States to back down continued across Europe and the Middle East.
The gravy formed strings as I lifted the fork to my mouth.