Every workhouse containing lunatics should be licensed as a place of detention for them by the Committee of Visitors, who should have authority to revoke the license.
Their joy and gratitude were rather premature, for her majesty did not revoke all of them; as appears by Rymer, xvi.
It cannot be the intention of the generals of the besieging armies, to compromise their own governments; and to revoke in fact the law, that the allied powers have imposed on themselves.
We cannot think of altering this state of things, unless the nation acquires a certainty, that the powers revoke their promises, and that the preservation of our present government is in opposition to their common wishes.
It provoked these words in reply: "I have your letter of the 11th in the nature of a petition to revoke my orders removing all the inhabitants from Atlanta.
He was to revoke the orders which had been made by Bobadilla reducing the proportion of gold payable to the Crown, and was empowered to take over one-third of the.
My power, however, gives way to that of another, and the minister alone can revoke the order of expulsion.
The minister will notrevoke these orders: for, while one of the men ceases to be an enemy of the country, the other two yet are.
Revoke the orders, so that our man may remain, unless you prefer by their departure to break the only thread to guide you in this inextricable labyrinth.
I revoke my vows of vassalage; for he that has no kingdom, cannot be a king's deputy.
Bring me hither Abdalla; I will revoke my promise to him in person; and, after that, I can depart, without disgrace.
A testator may revoke or alter his will by a later will or writing, executed in the same manner.
But the second will, to revoke the former, must contain words expressly revoking it, or directing a different disposal of the property.
I beg you to consider your injustice, and revoke such an unreasonable oath; pardon me, and heaven will pardon you; if you grant me my life, heaven will protest you from all attempts against your own.
I know it, sir; you have a written paper, in which I take an oath never to revoke this donation, upon any pretext whatever, and on pain of incurring the aversion and contempt of all honest men.
He lived on four weeks longer, but never had the strength torevoke the act which disinherited his family.
It was universally believed that she promoted persecution, and urged the king to revoke the Edict of Nantes.
The reason for this compendious evasion was that Leo, prior to his election, had taken an oath to revoke the indulgence of Julius II, and to supply otherwise the money required for St. Peters.
I told him that I should revoke his orders, and leave the matter where it belonged, to the local council of administration and commanding officers.
Those alleged against him by witnesses he mostly asserted to be lies, and he pathetically concluded, "It only remains for me to abjure and revoke and undergo fearful penance or to burn.
To the friendly adjuration of John of Chlum he replied with tears that he would willingly revoke anything in which he could be proved to have erred.
The grand vizier and the courtiers who were present cast themselves at the emperor's feet, to beg of him to revoke the sentence.
However, I beg you to revoke that 'I must,' for indeed I cannot allow you to depart.
I revoke all I have said against your profession and science, and confide myself entirely into your hands.
The words stuck in her throat, Despite her injured love and fiery pride; And of this Baba willingly took note, And begged by every hair of Mahomet's beard, She would revoke the order he had heard.
Relinquishment at death, in consequence of the non-exercise in life, of a power to revoke a trust created by a decedent is likewise an appropriate subject of taxation.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "revoke" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
