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Revoke
verb
To cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing
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'revoke' is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is often used to refer to the cancellation or withdrawal of a legal right, privilege, or power. Example sentence: The local government revoked the permit for the building project due to safety violations.
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The president of the Islamic Council of Victoria, Ghaith Krayem, told an anti-racism forum in Melbourne that the federal government's plans to allow the immigration minister to revoke the citizenship of dual nationals found to join or support terrorist groups "would make criminals of people based on suspicion and suspicion alone".
Keep track of which services you give permission to access others, and revoke this if one is compromised or you stop using it.
A decision in February by president Thein Sein's reformist government to revoke their "temporary" identity cards has disenfranchised the community ahead of parliamentary elections due to be held in November.
Australia has asked the ICJ to order Japan to stop its Jarpa II research programme and "revoke any authorisations, permits or licences" to hunt whales in the Southern Ocean.
She has joined the growing chorus of criticism by some government ministers and backbenchers, legal experts and community groups, over attempts to increase executive powers to revoke citizenship of suspected terrorists.
But – despite the many headlines (we still haven't seen any citizenship legislation and neither has the cabinet) we have no idea what evidence immigration minister Peter Dutton would need to see from intelligence briefings in order to revoke someone's citizenship, nor any details of the promised judicial review.
Education secretary Nicky Morgan has come under intense pressure to revoke government plans to decouple AS and A-levels, amid warnings of "near-unanimous" opposition to the move from across the entire education sector.
Now: In 2001, Sourcewatch reports that Bouchey, Wallop and Frontiers of Freedom ran an "eco-terrorism" propaganda campaign against Rainforest Action Network (RAN), Greenpeace and other groups, eventually petitioning the Internal Revenue Service IRSS) to revoke RAN's non-profit tax status.
Large areas of supposedly protected intact forest have been cleared, in violation of forest-protection laws and "apparently in collusion with Cambodia's corrupt elite .Global Witness is urging authorities in Cambodia and Laos to revoke the two companies' land concessions, which cover 200,000 hectares and are held through a network of subsidiaries.
Indonesia plans to revoke the passports of anyone who has gone to fight with IS, or who plans to do so.
As the San Francisco Chronicle notes, "Pastors across the country have posted videos on the Internet of their direct or thinly veiled political endorsements and sent letters to the Internal Revenue Service, daring the agency to revoke their tax-exempt status for political speech .The IRS, for its part, doesn't seem to care.
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