Sentence examples for its rescission from inspiring English sources
Her first successful fight for the union was against the Chicago Board of Education's refusal to honour a promised salary increase in 1899 and its rescission of an earlier one in 1900.
History repeated itself in 2006 when, after the City Council unanimously voted to rename the block where Hampton was murdered "Chairman Fred Hampton Way," FOP President Mark Donahue organized the families of slain CPD officers to lobby for its rescission, while publicly voicing his cop membership's "outrage" and "disbelief" at the decision.
In a letter to chairman Henry Waxman (D-CA) last year when the subcommittee began its rescission investigation, Consumer Watchdog urged lawmakers to bar such rescissions unless an insurance company could prove that the patient "intentionally misrepresented" her health condition as required under federal law.
California recently dropped an attempt to enforce its anti-rescission law against a major insurer, saying that it was financially outgunned by the insurer's legal team.
The right of rescission has its roots in the so-called "tin men" scams of the 1950's, in which aluminum-siding salesmen would agree to finance the siding by taking out a mortgage on the house without the owners understanding the contractual terms.
The Los Angeles Times on March 10 updated its readers on the rescission scandal involving WellPoint in California.
Hamilton transmitted a letter arguing that Congress already had the power to tax, since it had the power to fix the sums due from the several states; but Virginia's rescission of its own ratification ended the Rhode Island negotiations.
Weddington's efforts in Washington with Mrs. Carter and Mrs. Mondale to defeat the rescission amendment (it went down in the Senate 54-44) and pass the ERA extension (it passed 60-36).
But Citigroup's lawyers argued in a letter that they would ignore the rescission because it wasn't timely.
The Rusal filing added: "Sual seeks … injunctive relief against … [Rusal] preventing it from performing the contracts, rescission of the contracts, and damages against … the company".
But the company's government filing wryly notes, "It is unlikely that the rescission offer will be accepted by our stockholders or option holders in an amount that would represent a material expenditure by us".
