"Rescind" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... notified that the committee by a vote of 17-0 has decided to rescind its order of January 18, 2214, directing the disposal of the permallium robots of Grismet. Instead, the committee directs that you remove from their confinement all the robots and put them in some safe place where they will be afforded reasonable ...
— The Stutterer • R.R. Merliss
... taken off others, a tax was to be imposed on members. It would be, to those who had much correspondence, at least L15 a year, at the reduced rate of a penny a letter. To the revenue the saving would be small, and he hoped the house would not consent to rescind that privilege. ...
— Cheap Postage • Joshua Leavitt
... this conclusion, I laid down, as a rule for my guidance, the principle of non-interference with the provisional State governments, and though many appeals were made to have me rescind rulings of the courts, or interpose to forestall some presupposed action to be taken by them, my invariable reply was that I would not take cognizance of such matters, except in cases of absolute necessity. ...
— The Memoirs of General P. H. Sheridan, Complete • General Philip Henry Sheridan
... ascendant, it was deemed not inconsistent with that condition to state explicitly that on her rescinding her orders in relation to the United States their trade would be opened with her, and remain shut to her enemy in case of his failure to rescind his decrees also. From France no answer has been received, nor any indication that the requisite change in her decrees is contemplated. The favorable reception of the proposition to Great Britain ...
— Complete State of the Union Addresses from 1790 to the Present • Various
... none of these laws affected life or limb in the settlers. Their enactments were also required to be, in substance, consonant to the jurisprudence of England, and the King or the council in the mother-country was invested with absolute power at any time to rescind and make void the acts of the ...
— The Great Events by Famous Historians, Vol. 1-20 • Various
... Chair is of opinion the resolution does not rescind or change any standing rule of the House. The question is on the adoption of ...
— History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III (of III) • Various
... to rescind or suspend the clause restricting slavery were made, especially after Indiana Territory ...
— Slavery and Four Years of War, Vol. 1-2 • Joseph Warren Keifer
... busily employed in obeying that command. Indulging this idea, she hoped that his glory would burst upon them with such unquestionable splendour, that every tongue would applaud, while she took her hero by the hand, and asked her father to rescind the injunction which forbade her to ...
— The Loyalists, Vol. 1-3 - An Historical Novel • Jane West
... decide in favour of war—race antagonism; the Athenians and her subjects were Ionians, whereas the Peloponnesians were mainly Dorians. The necessary vote for opening hostilities was secured; but first an ultimatum was presented. If Athens desired peace she must rescind the exclusion acts aimed at Megara. At the debate in the Athenian assembly Pericles, the virtual ruler, gave his reason for believing Athens would win; he urged a demand for the withdrawal of Spartan Alien Acts aimed at Athens and ...
— Authors of Greece • T. W. Lumb |
