Sentence examples for was not repealed from inspiring English sources

The segregation law, which was not repealed until 1996, forced patients to undergo abortions and sterilisation.

That law was not repealed until 1943, when it became embarrassing because China was an ally of the United States in the war against Japan.

Edward II made it illegal to be abroad after eight in the evening; the law, although modified, was not repealed until 1827.

It would be a risk because if the tax was not repealed, the companies would still need the permits to meet their carbon tax liabilities.

Under the segregation law, which was not repealed until 1996, thousands of patients were confined in leprosy sanitariums on islands and mountains.

A lawyer, Kenneth M. Mollins, challenged the fees as illegal, citing an older law that limited fees in court cases, which was not repealed.

The law wasn't repealed until 1967, and among those prosecuted under it were John Gielgud and Alan Turing.

And yet Obamacare wasn't repealed, spending wasn't reduced, taxes weren't cut, the bureaucracy wasn't shrunk – conservatives didn't get what they were promised.

The act, which wasn't repealed until 1943, remains the only federal law ever to exclude a group of people by nationality.

But the last such law to prohibit interracial marriage wasn't repealed until 2000, when Alabama voters repealed it – by a vote of only 60%.

Giant companies – Google, Apple, Disney – struck out at the law and pledged to pull back their businesses if the law wasn't repealed.