Example sentences for: repealing

How can you use “repealing” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • A Democratic candidate in 1995--at a time when Congress was shutting down the government, repealing the ban on assault weapons, and trying to shut down the Department of Education--would have taken seriously the issues that were at stake.

  • Never mind that she didn't even try to stop her husband from repealing the welfare entitlement.

  • Calling for the abolition of affirmative action in his book, The End of Racism: Principles for a Multicultural Society , Dinesh D'Souza claims to be following in King's footsteps even though he advocates repealing the Civil Rights Act of 1964, one of King's crowning achievements.

  • Nor would repealing the freedom of the airwaves act (the federal legislation that permits radar detectors and any other listening-only devices) be a good idea merely to protect the various municipalities' right to collect revenues from motorists.

  • The simplest answer--and the simplest excuse for that earlier column--is that no one ever suggested that transformations in the oil industry were going to have the effect of repealing the laws of supply and demand.


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