Sentence examples for revokes from high-quality English sources.

• But Deng refuses to accept the resignation, and a day later Zhao revokes the offer.

• He has become, in effect, a dictator, and will remain so until parliament revokes his new powers.

• Tehran is also leveraging the new law that revokes the sweeping inspection powers granted to the International Atomic Energy Agency, the world’s nuclear watchdog.

• In fact Johannes Climacus acknowledges this implicitly when at the end of Concluding Unscientific Postscript he revokes everything he has said, with the important rider that to say something then to revoke it is not the same as never having said it in the first place.

• The latest version, unlike the previous one, explicitly revokes President Barack Obama’s January 2009 executive order directing the government to close the prison by January 2010, a deadline it failed to meet.

• If they fail to do so, the companies and their employees could face unspecified sanctions that are being drafted by the Ministry of Manpower and Transmigration, which processes and revokes foreign work permits, according to Budiman, head of the ministry’s legal affairs bureau.

• Biden's latest executive order revokes previous presidential memorandums on transgender service and "immediately prohibits involuntary separations, discharges, and denials of reenlistment or continuation of service on the basis of gender identity or under circumstances relating to gender identity."

• This newspaper's hopes for what he might actually say range from sadly unrealistic fantasies (he deserts the teachers' unions and promises structural reform in America's schools) to unlikely hopes (he revokes his waffle about “fair trade”), to reasonable expectations (he expands his measures for gun control).