How to Use decertify in a Sentence
decertify
verb-
What’s the point of decertifying but staying in the deal?
— Kambiz Foroohar, Bloomberg.com, 6 Oct. 2017 -
Bolton disapproves of the deal, which Trump has promised to decertify in May unless changes are made.
— W.j. Hennigan, Time, 29 Mar. 2018 -
The men asked him to decertify the election and have the state legislature install the Trump electors.
— Richard Ruelas, The Arizona Republic, 23 June 2022 -
Ramthun and Davis have led an effort seeking to decertify the 2020 election.
— Patrick Marley, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 30 Apr. 2022 -
The group filed a lawsuit to decertify the 2020 election earlier this year.
— Detroit Free Press, 7 Dec. 2022 -
Well, both Jim Jordan and Steve Scalise voted to decertify the electors.
— ABC News, 8 Oct. 2023 -
There are even two new union workers who are trying to convince others to join an effort to decertify the union.
— Juliana Feliciano Reyes, Philly.com, 19 Apr. 2018 -
Persuading union workers to vote to decertify over the next few years helped, said Hussman.
— Bill Bowden, Arkansas Online, 1 Jan. 2023 -
Hice ran on his objection to the counting of Georgia's electoral votes and his pledge, even a year and a half after the 2020 election, try and decertify the results.
— Averi Harper, ABC News, 25 May 2022 -
Eastman in the meeting urged Vos to decertify the election, sources familiar with the meeting said.
— Will Steakin, ABC News, 11 Apr. 2022 -
Trump's move to decertify Iran's compliance now puts the fate of snapping back sanctions against Iran in Congress's hands.
— Jeremy Diamond, CNN, 24 Oct. 2017 -
The reviews have been used to justify new voting laws and efforts to decertify the 2020 election.
— Nick Corasaniti, New York Times, 22 May 2022 -
The commission took steps to decertify Bigda in late May.
— Hanna Krueger, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Sep. 2023 -
The suit alleged widespread fraud and sought to decertify the results of the presidential race in Georgia, among other things.
— Kate Brumback, Anchorage Daily News, 8 Dec. 2020 -
Trump announced his intent to decertify the agreement last week.
— Ryan Struyk, CNN, 20 Oct. 2017 -
State law says the department must decertify anyone fired for cause.
— The Oregonian/oregonlive, OregonLive.com, 15 Dec. 2017 -
Powell has also filed a lawsuit seeking an order to decertify the election results in the state.
— Star Tribune, 3 Dec. 2020 -
Trump seems determined to decertify the nuclear deal with Iran, a country that has seen its share of brazen hacks recently.
— Brian Barrett, WIRED, 16 Apr. 2018 -
Over the years, opponents have tried to decertify Local 1000.
— Marcos Breton, sacbee, 28 Feb. 2018 -
The president, who vowed to abandon the deal as a candidate, is expected in the coming week to decertify the pact, putting the onus on Congress to decide whether to reimpose sanctions.
— Laura King, latimes.com, 8 Oct. 2017 -
According to the final ballot tally, workers had voted by a 5 to 1 margin to decertify the union.
— The Editorial Board, WSJ, 21 Sep. 2018 -
These critics also fear that Marchant could, with the stroke of a pen, decertify electronic voting machines in Nevada.
— Amy Gardner, Washington Post, 28 Oct. 2022 -
Calls for the board to dissolve and the U.S. Olympic Committee to decertify the organization have come from fans, journalists, and survivors.
— Jessica Taylor Price, Teen Vogue, 19 Oct. 2018 -
Deal falls apart Trump could decertify compliance and Congress could reimpose sanctions and even add new ones, which would prompt Iran to walk away from the deal and restart its nuclear program.
— Jim Michaels, USA TODAY, 6 Oct. 2017 -
In the aftermath of the election, Eastman made the case that contested states, where Biden had been declared the winner, had the power to decertify electors and pick pro-Trump alternates.
— Christopher Goffard, Los Angeles Times, 25 June 2023 -
Washington may well decertify the Colombian government as an ally in the drug war.
— Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 24 Oct. 2017 -
That happened in neighboring Tennessee last month, where the state moved to decertify four officers charged in the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols.
— Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs, New York Times, 24 Apr. 2023 -
It is created by and for workers, who also have the power to decertify it through a majority vote.
— Errol Schweizer, Forbes, 22 June 2022 -
Under both state and federal law, a state can’t decertify an election.
— Mariana Alfaro, Anchorage Daily News, 8 Mar. 2022 -
The indictment says that the election-reversal scheme lasted through September 2021, when Trump wrote a letter to Georgia’s secretary of state asking him to take steps to decertify the election.
— Danny Hakim, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Aug. 2023
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